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Br. Paul L1]ekii, 



reliquas vix ultra 5 mm metientes quam spiculae paullo 

 tantum breviores multo superante; spiculis brevissime pedi- 

 cellatis; glumis dorso dense pilosis. — luter formas 18.~20. 

 et fovmam 15. intermedia fructibus minutis (earyopse 

 2,75x1 mm metientc) quoque iusigniSj Penniseüwi Perrot- 

 tetii (Klotzsch) K. Schum. cum P. violaceo (Lamk.) Rieh, et 

 P. mollissimo Höchst, mixtum eoDtinet. 



Ostafrika: Ostusaramo bei Mbaruksrube, auf sandigen 

 Feldern gebaut (Busse No. 56, 56b). ~ Herb. Berlin, de Candolle. 



Einbeimiscbe Namen: „Mawele". 



Forma 22. speciosa (AI. Br. et Bebe.) Dur. et Sebinz, 

 Consp. Fl. Afr. V (1895) 785. — PeniciUaria speciosa AI. Br. 

 et Bebe.! in Ind. sem bort Berol. 1855, App. 23; C. Muell. 

 in Walp. Ann. bot. VI (1861) 962; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aetbiop. 

 (1867) 301. 



Inflorescentia straminea vel rubente omnibus praece- 

 dentibus manifeste laxiere, usque ad 170 mm longa et 25 mm 

 diam. metiente mibi visa, saepius apicem versus leviter atte- 

 nuata; fasciculorum stipitibus 0,25 — 2 mm longis semper 

 abbreviatis; fasciculis suberecto-erectis, (1-), 2-, (:^)spiculati8; 

 spiculis manifeste pedicellatis, si eomplures in fasciculo 

 beteromorpbis lateralibus 1-, media 2-floris, magnitudine 

 (plus minusve 6 mm) valde insignibus; seta prominente usque 

 ad 12 mm longa reliquas plus minusve 8 mm metientes baud 

 multo susperante, submolli; glumis subglabris; palea inferiore 

 manifeste acuminata. — Huic absque fere dubio Penniseti 

 gymnothricMs (AI. Br.) K. Scbum. sanguis admixta, id quod 

 imprimis e glumarum acuminatione spicularumque magni- 

 tudine elucet 



Subforma et) straminea Leeke. 



PeniciUaria mihica 



AI. Br.! in Ind. sem bort. Berol. 1855, App. 23; C. Muell. in 

 Walp. Ann. bot. VI (1801) 962; Scbweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aetbiop. 



(1867) 301. 



Pennisetum sp'icatum var. niiliciim Dur. et 



Sebinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. V (1895) 785. — PenicHlaria Doclte 

 AI. Br.! 1. c. (ex parte). 



Setis iudeque inflorescentia stramineis. 



Agyptiscber Sudan: kultiviert bei Metbik (Ebrenberg 



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bei El Mecberif (Scbweinf. No. 643); verwildert auf Feldern 



