Alloteropsis,] 
CL VII. GRAMINEJ® (Stapf). 
487 
long, lowest whorls 5-8-nate ; primary axis terete, smooth below, 
scaberulous upwards ; racemes slender, subflexuous, the longest 
of the lowest whorl often reaching the top of the panicle, sometimes 
with very short secondary racemes downwards, bearing spikelets 
from the base or bare for J-l in., usually interrupted or loose in the 
lower part, denser upwards, secund ; rhachis very slender, filiform, 
triquetrous, scaberulous ; pedicels fascicled, up to 6, rarely more, 
in a fascicle (if as many or more, then mostly some imperfect), or 
upwards 3- or 2-nate, unequal, the longest about 1 lin. long, slender, 
subterete or slightly angular, scaberulous with subcupular tips. 
Spikelets dorsally much compressed, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, 
1J-1J lin. long, greenish or reddish. Lower glume ovate, very 
acutely acuminate, § lin. long, thinly membranous, 1 -nerved, 
glabrous ; upper of the outline and size of the spikelet, membranous, 
contracted into a slender very acute tip, 5-nerved, with a submarginal 
fringe of short appressed or only slightly spreading cilia. Lower 
floret $ (always V) ; valve similar to the upper glume but glabrous, 
with the acumen minutely truncate and the lateral nerves approxi- 
mate in or near the flexure, the back evenly hyaline throughout ; 
valvule f-J lin. long, deeply 2-fid, flaps with oblong obtuse auricles 
slightly exceeding the keels ; anthers orange, about § lin. long. 
Upper floret slightly shorter than the lower : valve oblong-lanceolate, 
acuminate, smooth, produced into a fine scaberulous bristle-like awn 
2-3 lin. long ; valvule with acute auricles ; anthers as in the lower 
floret. Grain elliptic in outline, § lin. by almost J lin., flat, only 
slightly convex on the face ; scutellum not quite half the length of 
the gmm.—UrocMoa paniculata , Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 558 ; 
Walp. Ann. iii. 713. Panicum Benthami, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum, 
i. 43 ; Baker, FI. Maurit. 439 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
741. Axonofus paniculatus, Stapf ex Cheval. Sudania, 22, 34, 154. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: Mano, Thomas, 10646! French Sudan: 
San ; on the banks of the Fiver Bani, Chevalier , 1092 ! 2291 ! Southern 
Nigeria : in yam fields near Onitsa, Barter, 1756 ! Northern Nigeria : Stirling 
Hill, at the confluence of the Niger and Benue, Ansell ! 
North Central. Central Shari : Koulfe, Chevalier, 9209 ! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : .Kwango District ; Bandundu, Vanderyst, 
5159 ! Stanley Pool District ; between Leopoldville and Mombazi, Gillet, 
2514! 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Moramballa, on the banks of 
the River Shire, Kirk ! 
Also in Mauritius.^ ^ * "i? 
4. A. cimicina^ Staff. Annual, 1 to over 2 ft. high. Culms 
solitary or more often fascicled, erect or shortly ascending from a 
subgeniculate base, mostly simple, 3-5-noded, terete, very slender to 
rather stout, glabrous or loosely hairy to hirsute with tubercle- 
based hairs, striate. Leaf-sheaths rather tight (the upper) or more 
or less loose, terete, striate, glabrous and smooth or more often 
finely hairy or hirsute with tubercle-based hairs, outer margin 
