Pennisetimi\ \xvin. gra.mine.e. 191 



Sect. 3. — Pexkillakia. 



7. P. typhoideum L. Rich., I.e. 



P. spicatani 11. i^' S. Syst. ii. p. 499 (1S17). llolcus spicatus L. 

 Syst. ed. X. p. 1305 (1759). Pauicuju spicatitm Roxb. ¥\. Ind. i. 

 p. 283 (1832). Penicillaria spicata Willd. Enum. llort. Berol. 

 p. 1037 (1809). 



■* Part/"/ htjidrescence slallrd. 

 t No awn-like (lei-chijjmen/ of tlw incnhicre. 



Var. typicum K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanz.-Welt. Ost-Atrik. B. 

 p. 55 (1895). 



Leaf-blades and sheaths glabrous, margins of upper sheaths 

 filiate, lower nodes glabrous, upper with a dense ring of short 

 white hairs ; a similar ring occurs below the union of leaf-blade 

 and sheath ; scape densely pubescent below the " spike." Spike 

 very dense, cylindrical, narrowing to the apex, which in the 

 Loanda specimens is comose, greenish or purplish, when ripe 7 in. 

 long by 2 in. thick. Stalk of partial inflorescence about 2 lines 

 long, densely white-hairy; involucre enclosing 2 sessile spikelets 

 and scarcely equal to them in length, one seta sometimes slightly 

 exceeding the rest, the shoi-ter ones not plumose. The two outer 

 glumes small, hyaline, enerved, with truncate and sometimes 

 ciliolate apex ; glume I. about ^ line long, gl. II. slightly longer, 

 gl. III. 1^ line, broadly elliptical, 3-nerved, apex truncate, some- 

 times ciliolate, faintly muci-onate, subtending a subequal pale 

 with shortly haiiy nei-ves and a c? flowei' ; fertile gl. obovately 

 oblong to broadly elliptical, convex, 5- to 7-nerved, with truncate 

 broken and ciliolate or mucronate apex. Grain obovate, dull 

 grey-brown, a little over 1 line (11) long. 



Loanda. — Formerly cultivated under the name •' Milho de Bisao" 

 in Arimo de Quicuje (arimo = cultivated field). Feb. 1X54. Xo. 3005. 



Huii.LA. — Massango lizo Welw. Synops. Expl. p. 35 (18()2). Plenti- 

 fully cultivated by the natives, and called Massango by those dwelling 

 between Monino and Lake Ivantala. In fi. Feb., in fr. May 18G0. 

 No. 2680. End of May 18G0. Cou.. Cakp. 109«. 



tt One involucnil ><eta pvudiicd tutu a Inn;/ uvm. 



Var. echinurum K. Schum., I.e. 



Leaves, etc., as in var. tijricum. " Spikes " dense, cylindrical or 

 broadening fi-om the base to I from the apex, nearly 9 in. long 

 by 10 to 12 lines without the awn. Partial inflorescence with 

 a white-hairy-stalk of 1 to 3 lines ; involucral setse plumose, 

 purple, exceeding the 2 spikelets, about 4 lines long, one elongated 

 into an awn 6 to 7 lines ; setje ascending, spikelets stalked, stalk 

 I line long, 2-flowered; two outer glumes small, hyaline, enerved ; 

 gl. III. including a S, gl- I^- a ? flower, both ovate and 

 mucronulate. 



H[ illa. — Massango barbado Welw., I.e. Plentifully cultivated 

 throughout the district, especially towards the north and east of the 

 colony uf LopoUo ; Feb. and i\Iay 1 SGi ». Xo. 2679. 



