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CLVII. GRAMINE^l (Stapf). 
[ Brachiaria . 
5-nerved, with the nerves quite obscure below the fringe of purplish 
silky hairs which stretches across the glume below the glabrous tips, 
pubescent or villosulous below the fringe or glabrous in the centre. 
Lower floret : valve equal and similar to the upper glume in size 
and texture, but more cuspidate or mucronate, hyaline and glabrous 
along the middle with the transverse fringe broken up into two tufts 
of hairs ; valvule almost as long as the valve, broad-elliptic-oblong ; 
anthers over 1 lin. long. Upper floret elliptic in outline, subacuto 
or minutely cuspidate, 1-1J lin. long, pale ; valve and valvule 
coriaceous, glabrous or the former slightly ciliate near the tip, glossy. 
— Panicum serratum , Spreng. Syst. i. 309 ; Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 
215, t. 19, and Enum. i. 98 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 146, and in Mem. Acad. 
Petersb. 6me ser. iii. 233 ; Nees, El. Afr. Austr. 31 ; Steud. Syn. PI. 
Glum. i. 57 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. El. Afr. v. 765 (includ. var. 
holosericeum, Hack.) ; Sclium. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 101 (partly) ; 
Stapf in Dyer, El. Cap. vii. 388 ; Eyles in Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. v. 
301. P. serratum, v ar. holosericeum, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
xl. 229 ; Eyles, l.c. P. scopuliferum , Trin. Spec. Gram. Icon. t. 165 ; 
Kunth, Enum. i. 99 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 764. P. holosericeum, 
Nees, l.c. ; not of R. Br. Holcus serratus, Thunb. Prodr. 20, and El. Cap. 
ed. Schult. 110. Sorghum serratum, Roem. & SchulL Syst. ii. 839. 
Lower Guinea. Angola : country of the Ganguellas and Ambuellas, Goss- 
weiler, 2421 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland, Buchanan, 233 ! 1440 ! 1450 ! Shire 
Highlands, Scott Elliot, 8585 ! Rhodesia : Salisbury, common in wet places on 
granite soil, Allen, 696! 699! Mrs. Craster, 20! Sawer, 22! Mashonaland : 
Inyanga Distr., Mundy ! Insiza Distr., Mundy ! Charter, Government Herb. 3007. 
Victoria Falls, Rogers, 7057. Gazaland : Chirinda, 3800 ft., Swynnerton, 1623. 
Also in South Africa. * \ 
Var. gossypkna^St&pti 'very similar to the typical form, but smaller in all 
parts, apparently forming dense cushions of leafy branches 3-6 in. high, from 
which the flowering culms rise for another 6-12 in. Leaf-blades usually f-2 in. 
by 1 to almost 2 lin., often almost pungent, with straight rarely slightly wavy 
finely scaberulous margins, with or without more or less distant and very minute 
spinules. Inflorescence 1-2 in. long. Spikelets from less than 1 to 1|- lin. long. 
— Panicum gossypinum, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 366 ; Steud. Syn. PI. 
Glum. i. 56; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 300, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. 
Apj). ii. 19, 95 ; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 120 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Roma, viii. 30. P. serratum, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 101 (partly). 
P. serratum , var. gossypinum, Hack, ex Durand and Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
765; Chiov. l.c. 299. Eriochloa purpurascens, Hoehst. in Flora, 1841, i. Intel!. 19. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Assorta ; between Minat Lake and the Urug Valley, 
4900 ft., Pappi, 3378. Adi Qaieh, in the crevices of sunny rocks, 7550 ft., 
Schweinfurth, 20 ! Amasen ; arid north slope of Mount Bizen, 6560 ft., Schivein- 
furth, 2029 ! Ambelaco near Maldi, 6560 ft., Schweinfurth, 19 ! Addi Baro, 
along the Mareb River, Pappi, 2407 ; Sala Dharo, 7550 ft., Pappi, 2313 ; Lesa 
Mountains, Pappi, 4694 ! Plateau of Asmara, Tellini, 357 ; Sarae ; along the 
Mareb and in various other localities, between 5570 and 6200 ft., Pappi, 93, 
302, 352, 489, 597 ; Ocule Cusai, 6550-8500 ft., Pappi, 1355, 2436. Abyssinia : 
Tigre ; Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 174! Southern Abyssinia: Abomso, Dr alee 
Brockman, 138 ! Somaliland, Lort-Phillips ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa ; Usambara: Kiva Mahuza, Holst , 
9154 a! 
