431 
Digitaria.] clvii. gramine^j (Stapf). 
up to 1 lin. long ; blades linear to linear-lanceolate from an equally 
wide base, tapering to a fine point, 2 to over 1 ft. by lf-5 lin. , the 
lowest often short, flat, rather firm, glaucous-green, glabrous or more 
or less appressedly hirsute to almost tomentose, margins finely 
cartilaginous, often crisped, slightly rough, midrib very slender, 
obscure above, prominent below, lateral nerves fine, close, often 
obscure. Racemes few to many (up to 15), suberect or oblique, 
digitate or subdigitate and sessile, on a more or less stout and 
angular mostly short common axis, rather stiff and dense, 3-5 or 
occasionally up to 9 in. long, green or tinged (sometimes richly) 
with purple ; rhachis trigonous, slightly wavy, J-f lin. wide, 
lateral angles narrowdy winged or marginate, scabrid, internodes 
about 1 lin. long ; pedicels 2-nate, filiform, angular, scaberulous, 
the longer f-f (rarely 1) lin. long. Spikelets tightly appressed, 
imbricate to subimbricate, lanceolate-oblong to linear-lanceolate, 
acute or acutely acuminate, 1J-1J lin. long, glabrous (at least 
apparently) or somewhat silky on the sides or ciliate-fimbriate. 
Lower glume a minute ovate acute or obtuse membranous scale ; 
upper thin, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 
t V t 7 o- li n - long (excluding the apical hairs), 3-nerved, with usually 
appressed fine thin-walled obtuse-tipped hairs 1 lin. long (or if longer 
then also stiffer and subacute) between the nerves and along the 
margin. Lower floret corresponding in outline and size to the spike- 
let : valve rather firm, 7-nerved, nerves scaberulous, with fine lines 
of short hairs between the inner side-nerves and along the margins, 
the hairs often so closely appressed that the spikelets appear glabrous 
or the hairs of the inner lines mixed with or almost entirely replaced 
by yellowish acute at length rigidly spreading fine bristles up to 
over lin. long ; valvule and lodicules minute or the former up to 
\ lin. long. Upper floret lanceolate, acutely acuminate, very slightly 
shorter than the lower, often purplish : valve thinly chartaceous. 
Anthers -|-f lin. long. — D. sanguinalis, vars. ciliaris and extensa. 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 163. D. Sivynnertonii, Rendle 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 227, t. 6, figs. 6-10. Panicum milan- 
jianum, Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 56. P. san- 
guinale, var. ciliare, Eyles in Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. v. 301 (partly) ; 
not of others. 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Rabai Hills near Mombasa. Taylor ! 
Tanaland, Linton , 210 ! Ukambani ; in grass-land near Kibwezi, 3300 ft., 
Scheffler, 152 ! 
Lower Guinea. Portuguese Congo : Landana Hills, in sandy pastures, 
Gossweiler, 6054 ! Loanda, in sandy grassland, Gossweiler, 1567 ! 1579 ! 1610 ! 
Welwitsch, 7322 ! 7349 ! 7468 ! 7470 ! Barra do Dande ; on the banks of the 
river Dande near Bombo, Wdwitsch, 7280 ! Pungo Andongo (?), Welwitsch , 
2855 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Shupanga, Kirk ! near 
Moramballa, Kirk ! between Lupata and Senna, Kirk ! Zinymbo Hills, 1500 ft.. 
Swynnerton, 1554 ! Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 44 ! Mount 
Miianje, Whyte ! Rhodesia : near Mumbwa, Mrs. Macaulay, 43 ! Victoria 
