Bmchiaria.] 
CLVII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
5BB 
the Ibba. River, Schweinfurth, 3964 ! BongoJand : Culango, Schweinfurth, 
2217 ! Gir, Schweinfurth, 2503 ! Uganda ; Kizude, 4000 ft.. Bummer, 26C3 ! 
Kipayo, Bummer, 895 ! 2484 ! Nandi country : Sibu, James ! Umjaro 
plateau, common, Spetce rf? Grant ! Manjango, Stuhlmdnn, 1386 ! Ruwenzori; 
Kasamagas, 5300 ft., Scott Elliot, 7610 ! Buddu ; Buganga, Scott Elliot, 7461 ! 
British East. Africa : Nairobi, Miss Johnstone, 59 ! Bowson, 257 ! 307 ! Taita 
Mountains; Ndoli, Gregory ! and without precise locality, Powell, 23 ! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo : Bonga, at the mouth of the Sanga river, 
Schlechter, 12663. Belgian Congo: Cataracts District; Lutete, Hens, A 214 ! 
Stanley Pool District; Kisantu, Gillet, 698, 948. Mokaba, Vanderyst, 3781 ! 
Gamboni, Vanderyst, 3674 ! Ruzizi-Kivu District (Coll. ?). Katanga ; 
Chisangwe, Hornble, 49 ! Elisabethville, Pogers, 10952 ! Angola : Pungo 
Andongo ; Calunda, Welwitsch, 2713 ! in damp meadows at the River Cuanza 
near Mopopo, Welwitsch, 2822! meadows near Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 
2796 ! Benguella ; in shrubby pasturage near Monungue, Gossweiler, 3082 ! 
Libolo country ; Fumbo-Calulo, Gossweiler, 5994 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Himo River 
3400 ft., Vol/cens, 1711 ! below Matschama, 3000 ft., Volkens, 1573! Portu- 
guese East Africa : Qnilimane, Stuhlmann ! Zinyumbo Hills, 1500 ft., 
Swynnerton, 1557 ! Batoka country, Kirk ! Nyasaland : between Kondowe 
and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., Whyte, 377 ! Shire Highlands, Adamson, 190 ! 
Buchanan, 48! 1437! 1447! Rhodesia: Mumbwa, 15° S., 28° E., Mrs. 
Macaulay, 38! Broken Hill, Rogers , 7685! Victoria Falls, Rogers, 5669! 
Bulawayo; Matoppo Hills, Appleton, 21! 22! Matabeleland ; Insiza Distr., 
Mundyl Mashonaland; Umtali, Hon. Mrs. Cecil, 274! Saiver, 32! Salis- 
bury, Mrs. Craster, 29 ! 35 ! Eyles, 643 ! Nobhs, 697 ! Barling in Herb. 
Bolus, 10788 ; Enkeldoorn, Nobhs, 671! Gazaland : North Melsetter, 4000- 
6000 ft., Swynnerton, 1602 a ! Nyahodi River, 4000 ft., Swynnerton, 1673 ! 
Chirinda, 3500 ft., Swynnerton , 1622 ! 
24. B. callopu^^A Annual, over 2 ft. high, copiously 
rooting from the lowest nodes. Culms erect,, simple, stout, sheathed 
all along, terete, glabrous, about 7-noded. Leaf-sheaths somewhat 
loose, rather thin, terete or more or less compressed below, much so 
upwards and at the same time broadly keeled, the lowest sparingly 
and finely hairy ; ligules a fringe of snow-white hairs ; blades 
erect, linear, passing imperceptibly into the sheath, acute, tightly 
folded, keeled, with the keel thinning out upwards, up to 8 in. by 
over 1 lin. (folded), finely hairy on the face at least downwards, 
otherwise glabrous and delicately papillose, nerves numerous, very 
close, margins slightly seaberulous. Inflorescences erect, about 
6 in. long, of 6-8 erect or suberect secund almost subequally distant 
racemes ; common axis sharply triangular, slightly flexuous, puberu- 
lous, scabrid on the angles. Racemes dense, 2-seriate, sessile, 2 in. 
(the lowest) to f in. long, simple ; rhachis subtriquetrous, flat on 
the back, minutely puberulous or seaberulous, with scattered long 
fine tubercle-based hairs from the angles, internodes about \ lin. 
long ; pedicels solitary, very short, stout, with or without a stiff 
long hair. Spikelets contiguous, elliptic in outline, acute, stoutly 
stipitate, about 2 lin. long, pale straw-coloured. Glumes very 
unequal, their bases adnate to the stout internode, forming with it 
a subglobose stipe ; lower glume (free part) broad, ovate, mem- 
branous, obtuse, 3-5-nerved ; upper very convex, corresponding in 
