Digitaria .] clvii. GRAMiNEjE (Stapf). 458 
clavat'e-tipped, thick-walled ; valvule a delicate papillose scale up 
to | lin. long, exceeding the lodicules. Upper floret oblong, sub- 
acute, up to 1 lin. by about f lin.,. very early dark brown to black, 
the valve with broad whitish hyaline more or less distant margins. 
Anthers J lin. long. G-rain white, elliptic in outline, dorsally some- 
what compressed, | lin. by almost Jlin. ; scutellum elliptic, equalling 
half the length of the grain.- — Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 162. 
Panicum ternctium, , Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intel!. 19 ; Steud. 
Syn. PI. Glum. i. 40 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 118 ; Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. FL, Afr. v. 766; Hack. in. Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 
1901, 331 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 30, 293. P. 
phcBOcarpum , var. gracile , Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 23. Cynodon terna- 
tum, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 405. Paspalum ternatum , Hook, 
f. FI. Br. Ind. vii. 17. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Timbo, Pobeguin ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Amasen, 3300-7200 ft., Pappi , 121, 244, 2171, 2269, 
4278, 4479, 4779, 5007 ; Tellini, 359, 1726. Assaorta : Mount Dijot, Pappi , 
2975; Sarae, 5570-7200 ft., Pappi, 167, 356. Ocule Cusai, 5250-8500 ft. 
Pappi, 1366, 1815, 1824. 'Scimezana, 7200-8100 ft., Pappi, 719, 844, 881, 
921. Abyssinia: Tigre ; in Teff fields near Adowa, Schimper, 76 ! Samen ; 
Mai Sigamo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 986 ! and without precise locality, Schimper , 819 ! 
Uganda : in grassland near Kiyanza, 4000 ft., Dummer, 1200 ! British East 
Africa : Njoro, Dowson, 223 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Pungo Andongo ; meadows between Bumba 
and N’bifla, Welwitsch, 7436 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia : Victoria Falls, Rogers, 13281 ! Mashona- 
land ; Red Highlands, Allen, 704 ! Salisbury, Mrs. Craster, 23 ! Mazoe 
District, Mundy ! Umtali, Rawer, 24 ! North Transvaal : Mailas Kop, 
3600 ft. , Schlechter, 4557 ! 
Also in Eastern Cape of Good Hope, Natal and Transvaal (Pretoria, Reli- 
mann, 4045), and in India, Burma and Yunnan. 
All the Rhodesian specimens have long fine hairs on the peduncles, but such 
hairs are also found occasionally in South African and Indian specimens. 
22. D. melanochila, Stapf. Annual, over 1J ft. high. Culms 
erect, sometimes subgeniculate, fascicled, very slender, smooth, 
glabrous, compressed or sulcate when dry, usually 3- or sometimes 
4-noded, the uppermost internode very long-exserted. Leaf-sheaths 
somewhat loose or the upper tight, thin, glabrous, smooth, striate, 
the lower more or less purplish ; ligules scarious, rounded, short, 
glabrous ; blades 2-4 in. by 1-2 lin., flaccid, glabrous except for a 
Usually scanty beard of fine spreading hairs behind and above the 
ligule, midrib slender, lateral nerves very fine or obscure. Ra- 
cemes 4 or 5, sessile, subdigitate with a short slender common rhac his, 
erect, straight or slightly arching, very slender, about 3 in. long, 
olive-green, speckled with black, somewhat loose ; rhachis very 
slender, straight, sub triquetrous, J-J lin. wide, with herbaceous 
sides and scabrid margins, midrib subconvex and smooth on the 
back, very fine and more or less raised and acute on the face ; pedicels 
in clusters of 4 or 3 in the lower part^ of the raceme, 2- or 3-nate 
