Digitaria.] 
CL VII. C.RAM1NEJE (Stapf). 
477 
and up to 25, sessile, fascicled or solitary on a slender upwards angular 
and scaberulous common axis of variable length (1-3 in.), very 
slender, slightly curved or flexuous or almost straight, those from the 
lower nodes often very unequal or (rarely) compound, the longer 
3-5 in. long and often subfastigiate, obliquely erect or spreading, 
rather loose ; rhachis very slender, straight or slightly wavy, about 
| lin. wide, triquetrous, lateral angles with fine green or purple 
margins, very scabrid or rigidly ciliolate, internodes f-1 lin. long ; 
pedicels 4-2-nate, unequal, the longest up to 1 lin. long, angular, 
very scabrid and nearly always with a few fine white seta; from near 
the tips, exceeding the spikelet. Spikelets ovate- to elliptic-oblong, 
subacute, §-|- lin. by up to J lin., greyish or whitish-green on the 
flat side, chestnut-brown and at length very dark and more or less 
glossy on the convex side, quite glabrous. Lower glume suppressed ; 
upper reduced to a minute hyaline whitish rounded or truncate 
appressed scale, rarely much more than ^ lin. long. Lower floret : 
valve oblong, obtuse, appressed to the face of the upper floret and 
as long as or slightly shorter than the same, 3-nerved ; valvules and 
lodicules 0. Upper floret corresponding in size and outline to the 
spikelet, very convex on the back, chartaceous, tough, longitudi- 
nally very fineL^ punctate-striate. Anthers y lin. long . — Panicum 
minutiflorum * ATTSicln Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 362, and in Walp. Ann. 
iii. 715 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 41 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. 
Afr. 117 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 754 (partly) ; Hack, 
in Oest. Bot. Zeit. 1901, 330, 332 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istifc. Bot. Roma, 
viii. 294 ; not of Figari & De Not., nor of Benth. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : common on cultivated. ground near Timbo, 
Pobeguin , 1701 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : tSarae ; Gundet on the Mareb River, 5575 ft., Pappi, 
344 ; Medri od Testa ; Adi Ghebsus, Pappi, (5595 ; Mumat Mahater, Pappi, 
6740. Abyssinia : Ham ado, in swamps, Schimper, 996 ! in a dried up stream near 
Jelajerenne, Schimper, 799 ! JBegemeder ; slopes above Reb River, Schimper, 1550! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Elisabetliville, Rogers, 10994 ! 
45. D. Myurus, Stapf . Perennial, compactly csespitose, with 
intra vaginal innovations, up to 2J ft. high. Culms slender, erect, 
simple, 2-noded, the upper node 3-5 in. above the ground, hairy all 
along but particularly upwards. Leaves mostly crowded at the base ; 
sheaths rather tight, the lowest short, densely greyish-tomentose at 
the base, persistent, at length more or less breaking up and forming 
a dark coating at the base of the culms, the upper softly and shortly 
hirsute, the uppermost over 6 in. long ; ligules membranous, ovate, 
1-14 lin. long, ciliate ; blades linear, long-attenuated to a fine point, 
those of the barren shoots long-narrowed towards the base, up to over 
9 in. by 2-2 J lin., or those of the culms much shorter, somewhat 
firm, green, shortly and finely hirsute and slightly rough, midrib 
and lateral nerves fine, somewhat prominent. Racemes mostly com- 
pound, at least downwards, 5-6, sessile or subsessile, gathered into 
