860 " ‘THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 
IIl* membranaceo-chartacea, margine hyalina, acuta, sub apice 
carinata, 3-nervia, paleam-hyalinam et florem 3 triandrum fovente ; 
glabram exserente; palea glumam equante, hyalina, acuta; ovario 
; spic. ped i 
inat 
erect grass 1-2 ft. high, with a few slender straggling 
long, at t 
eel above, which runs out into a shar The fourth is 
1} line long, hyaline, with 2 Subacute segments, and a ciliate 
margin, with a flexuous awn 4-5 lines long. The s glabrous, 
sessile. The stamens in the 3 fi 
ae oe pags ee find them in one spikelet, though I ex- 
rer eee € intlorescence ; the glabrous ovary had evidently 
ott Elliot, Sierra Leone Boundary Commission, No. 4927. 
On granite rock by waterside, Ninia, Talla, Feb. 1892. 
A distinct species of the subgenus Huischeamum (Hackel). 
