Pennisetum] XXVIII, GRAMINES. 191 
Sect. 3.—PENICILLARIA. 
7. P. typhoideum L. Rich., Jc. 
P. spicatum R. & 8. Syst. ii. p. 499 (1817). LZoleus spicatus L. 
Syst. ed. x. p. 1305 (1759). Panicum spicatwm Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 
p. 283 (1832). Penicillaria spicata Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 
p. 1037 (1809). 
* Partial inflorescence stalked. 
+ No awn-like development of the involucre. 
Var. typicum K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanz.-Welt. Ost-Afrik. B. 
p. 55 (1895). 
Leaf-blades and sheaths glabrous, margins of upper sheaths 
ciliate, 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 shorter ones not plumose. The two outer 
glumes small, hyaline, enerved, with truncate and sometimes 
ciliolate apex; glume I. about 3 line long, gl. IT. slightly longer, 
gl. TIT. 12 line, broadly elliptical, 3-nerved, apex truncate, some- 
times ciliolate, faintly mucronate, subtending a subequal pale 
with shortly hairy nerves and a ¢ flower ; 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 (14) long. 
Loanpa.—Formerly cultivated under the name “ Milho de Bisao” 
in Arimo de Quicuje (arimo = cultivated field). Feb. 1854. No. 3005. 
HviLua.—Massango lizo Welw. Synops. Expl. p. 35 (1862). Plenti- 
fully cultivated by the natives, and called Massango by those dwelling 
between Monino and Lake Ivantala. In fl. Feb., in fr. May 1860. 
No. 2680. End of May 1860. Cox. Carp. 1098. 
tt One involucral seta produced into a long awn. 
Var. echinurum K. Schum., /.c. 
Leaves, etc., as in var. tipicum. ‘“ Spikes” dense, cylindrical or 
broadening from the base to + 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 sete plumose, 
purple, exceeding the 2 spikelets, about 4 lines long, one elongated 
into an awn 6 to 7 lines; sete ascending, spikelets stalked, stalk 
2 line long, 2-flowered ; two outer glumes small, hyaline, enerved ; 
gl. IIL. including a ¢, gl. IV. a 2 flower, both ovate and 
mucronulate. 
HuILia.—Massango barbado Welw., J.c. Plentifully cultivated 
throughout the district, especially towards the north and east of the 
colony of Lopollo ; Feb. and May 1860. No. 2679. 
