518 cl vii. Gi-RAMiNEiE (Stapf). [ Brachiaria . 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast : Accra, Dov ! Capo Coast Castle, Brass ! 
Christianborg, Johnson, 1021 ! 1035 ! 
There is very little doubt that this is Panicum, collare, Schumach. in Schumach. 
& Thonn. Beskr. Guin. PI. 60, the original of which, however, I have not seen. 
8. B. fulva, Stapf Perennial, up to 3 ft. high, densely csespitose 
on a rather slender rhizome, innovations intravaginal or if extra- 
vaginal then growing np close to the mother-culm. Culms erect, 
rarely shortly geniculately ascending, moderately slender or slightly 
stout, 3-4-uoded, terete or compressed below, mostly simple ; inter- 
nodes glabrous or more or less hirsute below the nodes. Leaf- 
sheaths rather tight, the intermediate and upper herbaceous, the 
basal firmer and more or less persistent, glabrous or hirsute and 
often densely so ; ligules a narrow ciliolate rim ; blades lanceolate- 
linear to linear from an equally wide base, long-tapering to a fine 
point, from a few inches to over 1 ft. by 2-4 fin., flat, glabrous or 
more frequently shortly and finely hirsute ; midrib slender, slightly 
prominent below, lateral primary nerves 3-4 on each side, very fine ; 
margins finely cartilaginous, ciliate or glabrous and smooth below, 
scabrid upwards. Inflorescence erect, secund, sometimes flexuous, 
of 4-12 equally distant or upwards approximate oblique frequently, 
arched dense secund spike-like racemes ; common axis 2 to over 5 in. 
long, slender, semiterete and channelled or more or less flattened in 
the upper part, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Racemes 2-seriate, 
up to If in. long, simple, fulvous or rufous ; rhachis subherbaceous, 
flat, about f-1 lin. wide with a prominent slender zig-zag midrib, 
often purplish, pubescent ; margins densely setulosely ciliate, the 
cilia fulvous, as long as the spikelets ; internodes about J lin. long ; 
pedicels extremely short with a tuft of long fulvous hairs below the 
subdiscoid tips. Spikelets subcontiguous or contiguous or im- 
bricate, oblong, obtuse or subacute, lin. long. Glumes mem- 
branous, lower broadly-elliptic, very obtuse or submarginate, two- 
thirds to five-sixths the length of the spikelet, glabrous, 9-nerved ; 
upper glume corresponding in outline and size to the spikelet, hairy 
all over, 5-nerved with distant cross-veins from low down. Lower 
floret (J, as long as the spikelet ; valve similar to the upper glume 
but hairy on the sides only, the lateral nerves submarginal and the 
cross-veins confined to the upper part ; valvule almost as long as 
the valve. Upper floret broad-oblong, apiculate, 1J lin. long, other- 
wise as in B. falcifera. — Panicum faiciferum , Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 749 (partly) ; Rendie in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 168 
(partly) ; Pobeguin, Ess. FI. Guin. Franp. 214 ; Cheval. Sudania, 159. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Skuas ! Park ! French Guinea : Kouroussa, Pobe- 
guin, 473 ! 547 ! Southern. Nigeria : Oogboro road, Dawodu, 34 ! West 
Province, Kitson ! Onitsha, Kitson ! Northern Nigeria : Lokoja, Richardson ! 
Nupe, dry localities, Barter, 1384! Illah on the Niger, Macleod ! Abinsi, 
Dnlziel, 896 ! Katagum, Dalziel, 256 ! Cameroons : Sanaga, Zenker, 1476 ! 
North Central. Baghirmi • between Yalal and Moure, Chevalier, 9452 ! 
