458 
CL VII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[. Digitaria . 
minute lodicules. Upper floret chartaceous, broad-oblong, shortly 
acute, 1 lin. by lin., pale or purplish. Anthers f lin. long. Grain 
elliptic-oblong in outline, § lin. by J lin., subelliptic in cross section, 
whitish ; scutellum broad-elliptic, not quite half the length of the 
grain. — T). sanguinalis, var. intenupta, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 
ii. 164. 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Country of the Ganguellas and Ambuellas ; at 
Domba, Kuanarol, Gossweiler, 305(1 ! 3755 ! Huilla ; Humpata, Newton, 26 ! 
grassy bills near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 2675 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : in woods near Beira, Bwynner- 
ton, 1593! Nyasaland : Zomba, 4000-5000 ft., Whyte ! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan, 1449 ! Rhodesia : at Makanga by the N’Yenyeshi 
River (16° 30' N. Lat. ; 28° 40' E. Long.), Kassner, 2220! M’rewa, 
in bush, Appleton, 14 ! Buluwayo and Matoppo Hills, Appleton , 7 ! 
Mashonalancl ; North Mazoe District, Mundy ! Inyanga, Mundy ! Salisbury, 
Mundy ! Somnabula, Nobbs 656! Cazaland : near (Jhirinda, 3800 ft., Swynner- 
ton, 1 630 ! 
27. 1). Chevalieri, Stapf ip. Chev. Sudania, 13 (name only). Pe- 
rennial (apparently flowering the first year), forming dense tufts of 
barren shoots mixed with flowering culms and trailing runners ; 
rhizome short, prsemorse ; innovations extravaginal, coveied with 
silky -tomentose cataphylls ; runners slender, many-noded, up to 
6 in. long, with tufts of short leaves from the nodes.- Culms erect 
from an ascending or shortly prostrate base, slender, about f-14 ft. 
high, simple or with a leafy branch here and there, 8- or more-noded 
or in first year's specimens only 3- or 4-noded, all the internodes 
except the upper 2 or 3 shorter than the short sheaths, J-§ in. long, 
the uppermost very long and long-exserted, glabrous. Leaf-sheaths 
tight or the lower, which are very short loose, terete or subterete, 
densely and softly hairy to villous, bearded at the base, the upper- 
most quite glabrous upwards, hairs spreading, white, fine ; ligules 
short, membranous, rounded ; blades linear, tapering to an acute 
point, those of the culms more or less spreading, 1 to almost 3 in. 
by 1J-2 lin., flat, soft, glaucous, more or less loosely villous, hairs 
very fine, margins cartilaginous, scaberulous to spinulously scabrid, 
lateral nerves obscure or the primary (3 or 4 on each side) slightly 
prominent. Racemes about 6-10, sessile or subsessile, subdigitate 
or racemosely arranged with a slender scabrid angular common 
rhachis (up to 2 in. long), sometimes slightly compound near the base, 
erect or more or less spreading, very slender, straight, rather loose, 
about 3 in. long, pale green ; rhachis slightly wavy, filiform, tri- 
quetrous, -£q-J lin. wide, with or without some long extremely fine 
spreading hairs in the lower part, angles finely marginate, very 
scabrid, internodes 1J-2 lin. long ; pedicels 2-3-nate, or fascicled 
near the base with very short and scanty secondary branchlets, 
finely filiform, very unequal, the longer up to 1J lin. long, angular, 
scabrid. Spikelets more or less appressed, not imbricate, oblong, 
subacute, § lin. long, pale greyish- or brownish-green, delicately 
silvery-silky. Lower glume a very minute cuff-like hyaline 
