Brackiaria.] 
CL VII. GRAMlNEiE (Stapf). 
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the lower and intermediate 2J-1J or, in robust specimens, to 5 in. 
long, straight or flexuous, subsessile or the lowest bare at the base 
for J-l in. (owing to the arrest of the spikelets), simple or the longer 
compound with scanty secondary racemes J-f in. long ; rhachis 
triquetrous, more or less flexuous to almost straight, ~ lin. wide, 
scabrid along the angles, finely pubescent with or without scattered 
spreading hairs ; pedicels paired or upwards solitary, filiform, 
angular, scabrid, the longer of a pair up to 3 or sometimes 5 and even 
up to 10 lin. long, with or without a few spreading hairs near the tips. 
Spikelets or pairs of spikelets or secondary racemes distant by 5-8 
lin., hence usually very loosely scattered ; spikelets as in B. ramosa , 
but mostly pubescent, the lower glume 5-nerved with all the nerves 
anastomosing, or sub-7-nerved, the upper glume typically 7-, and 
the lower valve typically 5-nerved. Lower floret very rarely 
with anthers 1 lin. long. Anthers of upper floret -f lin. long. Grain 
as in B. ramosa. — -Panicum regulars, Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 41 (in note) ; 
Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 68 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
761. P. nudiglume, Hochst. in Flora, 1844, 253 ; A. Rich. Tent. FI. 
Abyss, ii. 372 (partly) including var. major, Hochst.; Walp. Ann. 
Bot. iii. 717 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 68 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop. 301 ; Martelli, FI. Bogos, 91 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. ii. App. ii. 21 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 756 ; 
Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 64, and viii. 33 ; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 170 (excl. var. major), and in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. Bot. xl. 229. P. Ruprechtii, Fenzl ex Steud. l.c. P. Peliveri, 
Ball. f. Bot. Socotra, 310 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 759 (partly) ; 
Penzig in Atti Bot. Congr. Genoa, 1893, 366 ; Chiov. l.c. viii. 32, 302 
(includ. vars.) ; Engl. Vegetal. Somaliland, 14. P. Petiveri, var. 
nudiglumis, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfi. Ost-Afr. C. 102 ; not of Trim 
P. ramosum, Cheval. Sudania, 34, 162 ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. 
Afr. v. 300 ; not of Linn. P. nidulans, Mez in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 136. 
Upper Guinea. French Sudan: Middle Niger; Sompi, Chevalier, 2282! 
Goundam, Chevalier, 2283! Gold Coast: Aburi, in gardens, Johnson, 1004! 
in dry plains, Brown, 327 ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, MacGregor, 70 ! Foster, 
6 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe, in shady ravines, Barter, 1367, B ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Arahil, Chevalier, 9606! Central Shari: Jro 
Koulfa, Chevalier, 8810 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia : shore of the Red Sea at Mirza Elei (22° 12' N. long.), 
Schweinfurth, 1171 ! Wadi Dimehadit, between Suakim and Berber, Schwein- 
furth, 446 ! Sudan : Cordofan, Kotschy, 53 ! Pfund, 536 ! Darfur : Surutj 
District, Pfund, 531 ! Sennar ; near Dakhlia Shellei, Broun, 726 ! Eritrea : 
Habab, Hddebrandt, 339 ! Beni Amer ; Mount Damba, Pappi, 5933 ! 6031. 
Bogos ; Keren, Beccari, 229. Mensa, 1300-1450 ft., Terracciano & Pappi, 
2057, 2081. Samhar ; Saati, Schweinf urth, 16! Schweinfurth & Riva, 311 ! 
Penzig, Ragazzi & Pappi, 2640. Terracciano & Pappi, 2642 ! Dahlak 
Archipelago, Tellini, 61. Assaorta ; Mount Ghedem, Schweinfurth & Riva , 
127 ! Tellini, 192. Mount Dijot, 5900 ft., Pappi, 5700. Mount Urug, 8350 
ft., Pappi, 3418 ! 3411 ; and other localities, Pappi, 2631, 2636, 2638, 2639, 
3068 ; Terracciano, 2641. Tellini, 22. Amasen ; near Ghinda, 2950 ft., 
Schweinfurth , 1714! Pappi, 4183; plains of Sabarguma, Pappi, 4006 ! and 
other localities, Tellini, 742, 1036, 1398, 1402, 1588 ; Terracciano & Pappi, 
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