Fuire7ia.] clvi. cyp£RACE/E (clauke), 405 



H&oxsLxubm Xtist. British Central Africa : Boruma, on the Zambesi, Mciniharthy 

 1062 I 



G. P. striata, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. li. 128. Hairy, at least 

 the backs of the glumes. Rhizome 0, or sometimes h in. long, very 

 slender. Stems tufted, about 12 in. long, slender, with nodes and 

 leaves throughout their length. Leaves 1-2 by ^-^ in. Clusters of 

 spikelets usually 3-1, not more than 8 in. from the top of the stem, 

 subsessile of 6-3-1 spikekts. Spikelets J by J in. Glumes more 

 or less 5-ranked apparently, elliptic-lanceolate, brown ; keel green, 

 excurrent in a minute mucro. Hypogynous bristles (>, 5 or 3, longer 

 than the nut, stiff, brown, linear, strongly retrorse-scabrid. Style 

 3-fid. Nut more than J the length of the glume, narrowly obovoid, 

 stalked, trigonous, smooth, brown ; beak cylindric, very narrow. — Boeck. 

 in Linnrea, xxxvii. 99 ; C. B. Clarke in Durand <fc Schinz, Conspect. 

 Fl. Afr. V. 048 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120. Pentasticha 

 niadayascariensiSj Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxv. ii. 330 ; Benth. 

 in Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL iii. 1049. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet ! Niger Territory : Nupe, Barter^ 

 1562 ! 



Wile X^and. British East Africa : Kavirondo, Scott-Elliof, 64-75 ! 



XtCozamb. Sist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland; Xanmsi, Cameroi:, 

 25! 



Also in Madagascar and the Comoro Isles. 



7. F, chlorocarpa^ Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150. 

 Spikelets black-green. Glumes ovate, acute, not at all 5-ranked, the 

 keel distinctly excurrent. Nut a greenish yellow; otherwise a> 

 F. stricta. — C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. FI. Afr. v. 045, 

 and in Dyer, FL Cap. vii. 2Q'2 ; Durand & Schinz, Etudes Fl. Congo, 

 i. 307. 



iTile Xiand. Abyssinia : Bogenieder ; Keh Valley, near Senka Kerr, 680O ft., 

 Schimper, 1293 ! 



liower G-ulnea. Congo: Lower Congo; Stanley Poo^ 1000 ft., Hens, 373 ! 

 Angola: Huilla; marshy places at LopoUo, Welioiisch, 7113 ! 



Also in Madagascar and South Africa. 



8. T, slotaersitsi. Lam. III. i. 150. Annual, hairy. Stems 4-10 

 in. long, rather slender. Leaves 4-G by -I in. Panicle oblong, thin, of 

 a few often approximated clusters. Spikelets ^-h by J-^ in. Glumes 

 dark green to dull brown, 3-nerved, keel excurrent in a long bristle. 

 Hypogynous bristles 3 or 6 ; outer (sepals) linear or ; 3 inner (petals) as 

 long as the nut, quadrate, toothed, brown, on a long linear claw, falling 

 with the nut, 3-nerved. Nut ^ the length of the glume, ovoid, 

 triquetrous, acuminate at the top and base, smooth, pallid ; beak 

 cylindric, very narrow. Style 3-branched. — Kunth, Enum. ii. 184; 

 Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 553 ; Boeck. in Peters, Keise Mozamb. 

 Bot. 545, in Linnoea, xxxvii. 107 ; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2. 

 Hot. iL IGO ; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FJ. Brit. Ind. vi. CO (I, and in 



