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CL VII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[. Brachiaria . 
tall, upwards with numerous flowering branches up to over 1 ft. * 
long. Leaf -sheaths strongly striate, glabrous, smooth ; ligules 
formed of setiform rigid hairs ; blades linear-lanceolate from a 
shortly rounded base, long -tapering upwards, rigid, sparsely setulose 
on both sides, margins scabro -cilia te upwards, midrib stout towards 
the base, primary lateral nerves 6-7 on each side. Inflorescence 
of 3-4 distant dense spiciform racemes ; common axis straight, 
channelled, glabrous, its internodes lj-lf in. long. Racemes 2- 
seriate, lf-2f in. long, simple or compound with short secondary 
racemes ; rhachis with a slender puberulous pulvinus at the base, 
flat, herbaceous, 1 lin. wide, glabrous on the back, puberulous on the 
face, margins rough ; pedicels solitary, very short, or 2-nate and 
then the primary slightly longer. Spikelets narrowly ovoid, acute, 
2 lin. long, hairy. Glumes somewhat distant, the lower acute, less 
than half the length of the spikelet, broadly clasping at the base, 
with 11-13 parallel anastomosing nerves ; upper ovate, acute, as 
long as the spikelet, 7 -nerved, with some rather long white stiff hairs 
on the back. Lower floret ; valve very similar to the upper 
glume, 5-nerved ; valvule as long as the valve. Upper floret 
as long as the lower ; valvule chartaceous, shortly mucronate-apicu- 
late, faintly 5-nerved ; stigmas dark- violet, short. — P. brizanthum {?), 
Schlechter, West-Afr. Kautsch.-Exped. 268. 
Lower Guinea. French Congo : in scrub near Bonga at the mouth of the 
Sanga River, Schlechter , 12663. 
Evidently closely allied to B. inter stipitata, but apparently differing from 
it in the setulose leaf-blades, the numerous flowering branches, each of which 
bears only 3-4 racemes, and the long stiff white hairs of the spikelets. 
53. Panicum ozogonum, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 68. Culms 
geniculate, proliferously branched from the nodes, over 1 ft. high. 
Leaf-sheaths with tubercle-based hairs ; blades lanceolate from a 
clasping cordate base, acute, 1-2 in. by 2J-3 lin., very finely 
pubescent. Panicle l|-3 in. long, of erect solitary subsessile com- 
pound (?) racemes. Spikelets solitary “ alternately pedicelled and 
sessile ” or 2-nate, ovate, pubescent. Lower glume ovate, obtuse, 
sometimes very shortly mucronulate ; upper equalling the lower 
floret, 3-5-nerved. Upper floret <J, transversely rugose. — Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. El. Afr. v. 758. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur. 
I have not found this species in Steudel’s Herbarium in Paris. It is probably 
Brachiaria ramosa. 
54. Panicum schimperianum, Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, 
viii. 303. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Assaorta ; along the Haddas torrent, Pappi, 2645. 
Chiovenda quotes A. Richard {Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 371) and Steudel {Syn. 
PI. Glum . i. 68) as authorities for P. schimperianum. A. Richard based this 
