448 
CLYII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[Digital ia. 
to tomentose with tubercle-based hairs, midrib very fine, often not 
standing out from the very close and numerous lateral nerves. Ra- 
cemes 2-4, rarely up to 7, sessile or subsessile, digitate, erect or 
suberect, moderately slender, straight or almost so, 4-6 or sometimes 
up to 9 in. long, dense or loose and often slightly interrupted or 
bare at the base, more or less silky ; rhachis rather stout, straight 
or slightly wavy, triquetrous, |— | lin. wide, finely puberulous, angles 
winged (the green wings generally as wide as the flat dorsal midrib), 
very scabrid, internodes from 2 lin. (dense racemes) to 8 lin. (inter- 
rupted racemes) ; pedicels usually in fascicles of 4 or more to many 
(stunted branchlets), very unequal, filiform, flexuous, terete with 
discoid tips, smooth or slightly scaberulous downwards, the longest 
up to ItI or in large fascicles to 3 lin. long. Spikelets oblong-lanceo- 
late, acutely and finely acuminate, 1 J-lf lin. long excluding the apical 
tuft of hairs, very convex on the back. Lower glume a very delicate 
hyaline truncate crenulate or lobed loose scale, very small to up to 
over. J- lin. long, usually breaking up early; upper narrow, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, f-lj lin. long, appressed to the curved back of 
the upper floret, membranous, 3-nerved, densely hairy all over, 
hairs straight or almost so, appressed, acute, lin. long. Lower- 
floret : valve corresponding in outline and size to the spikelet, thinly 
membranous, longitudinally (often deeply) depressed, 7-nerved, 
lateral nerves approximate in the broad bulging lateral flexures and 
distant from the slender sharply prominent smooth middle-nerve, 
with a marginal fringe of hairs from the middle upwards and later- 
ally appressed tufts of hairs from the base, otherwise glabrous and 
smooth, hairs with firm walls and acute tips, somewhat wavy or 
almost straight, often purple, the basal up to as long as the spike- 
let, the upper from § to over 1 lin. long, produced into a brush-like 
point ; valvule and lodicules minute. Upper floret lanceolate- 
oblong, finely and acutely acuminate, slightly narrowed towards but 
not contracted at the base, as long as the lower floret, about § lin. 
wide, chartaceous, very finely punctate-striate, whitish or at length 
darkening, the valve with distant margins. Anthers over J lin. 
long. Grain oblong, plano-convex, 1 lin. by f lin., whitish; scu- 
tellum elliptic, not quite half the length of the grain. — D. moni- 
nensis, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 164. Panicum Brazzw , 
Franch. Contrib. FI. Congo Fran^ 46. P. moninense , K. Schum. 
in Just, Jahresb. 1899, i. 457. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo : Brazzaville, Thollon , 391 ! 392 ! Belgian 
Congo : Stanley Pool District ; Kunzulu, Vanderyst, 5203 ! Kwango District ; 
Nyungu, Vanderyst , 3224 partly ! Berii ; in sandy savanahs, Vanderyst, 2627 ! 
Kinsoma, Vanderyst, 3251 partly ! Angola : Huilla ; in rich pastures at 
Monino, Welwitsch, 2766 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia : Salisbury, Mundy ! Allen, 163 ! Nobbs, 
674 ! in open veldt near M’rewa, Appleton, 11 ! 23 ! 
Good forage {Appleton). The Rhodesian specimens have on the whole larger 
