434 
CLVII, GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[Digitaria. 
Panicum Parlatorei, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 40 ; Batt. & Trab. 
FI. Alger. Monoc. 131 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 295. 
P. commutatum , var. nodosum , Hack, in Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
FI. Afr. v. 744. P. commutatum, var. j3, Chiov. l.c. 30. P. pabulare, 
Aitch. & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xix. 190 ; Boiss. FI. 
Or. v. 434. Paspalum sanguinale, var. pabulare, Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. vii. 15. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands : S. Nicalao ; Ribeira d’Agoa, Bolle ! 
S. Antao ; up the Ribeira Grande, Lowe. ! locally gregarious, Schmidt. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Assaorta ; along the Addas torrent, Pappi, 2596 
5163! Urug Valley, Pappi , 3356! Mount Dijot, Pappi, 2922. Somaliland: 
Wadaba, Miss Cole ! in the valleys round Upper Sheikh, Appleton ! 
An imperfect specimen, collected by Linton (no. 69) at Makindu, British East 
Africa, may belong here. 
Also in Algeria, tropical Arabia, Afghanistan and the Punjab. 
Sufficiently distinct from D. eriantha, Stapf, of the Cape, with which it has 
been confused, in the very slender relatively loose racemes, more lanceolate 
spikelets, and its much less compact growth. Said to be good fodder ( Aitchison , 
Appleton ). 
5. D. macroblephara^ta#/’. Perennial (?). Culms erect, slender 
simple ; uppermost internodes long-exserted. Leaf-sheaths terete, 
tight, quite glabrous or appressedly hairy at the nodes ; ligules 
membranous, short, truncate, denticulate, blades linear, gradually 
tapering to an acute point, 1J-2J in. by 1-1 \ lin., flat, somewhat 
rigid, smooth, glaucescent. Kacemes 3-5, digitate. 1§-2| in. long, 
suberect, flexuous, very loose, villous, pale ; rhachis very slender, 
jp-J lin. wide, triquetrous, angles marginate, scabrid, internodes 
1| lin. long ; pedicels 2-nate, very unequal, the longer f-1 lin. long, 
finely filiform, angular, slightly scaberulous. Spikelets more or less 
spreading, linear-lanceolate, 1|-1§ lin. long, villous. Lower glume 
a membranous ovate or ovate-lanceolate acute scale, up to almost 
b lin. long ; upper lanceolate to oblong, acute, almost as long and 
as wide as the spikelet, hyaline, finely 3-nerved, with spreading hairs 
all over between the nerves and along the margins, hairs very fine, 
flexuous, solid towards the subacute or acute tips, up to J lin. long. 
Lower floret corresponding in outline and size to the spikelet, thin, 
finely sub-7-nerved, submarginal nerve very faint, densely hairy 
between the inner pair of side-nerves and along the margin, hairs as 
in the upper glume but up to f lin. long, spreading at right angles ; 
valvule and lodicules microscopic. Upper floret lanceolate, as 
long as the spikelet, acute, brownish, chartaceous .—Panicum 
macroblepharum, Hack, in Mem. Herb. Boiss. no. 20, 7 ; Engl, in 
Sitzungb. Preuss. Acad. Berlin, 1904, 41. 
Nile Land. Somaliland : Haud, Laku, Keller ! 
6. D. Pearsonii, Stapf. Perennial, 1-2 ft. high, from a creeping 
branched rhizome whose very numerous and mostly very short 
internodes are naked or imperfectly covered with the remains of 
