Paspalum.] clvii. gramine^: (Stapf). 571 
long ; pedicels reduced to broad dorsally compressed stumps. 
Spikelets solitary, subsessile, oblong, acute to acuminate, flattened, 
up to 2 lin. long, imbricate and appressed to the rhachis, pale. Lower 
glume 0 ; upper corresponding in shape and size to the spikelet, 
thinly membranous, quite glabrous, 5- or 4-nerved with the middle 
nerve suppressed, lateral nerves approximate near the margin. 
Lower floret reduced to its valve which very much resembles the 
glume, and is 5-7-nerved with the side- nerves submarginal. Upper 
floret shorter by one-third or one-quarter than the lower, pale, 
smooth ; valve and valvule sub coriaceous, the former faintly 
5-nerved. Anthers \ lin. long. — Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. i. 135; Fluegge, 
Monogr. Pasp. 108 ; Trin. Gram. Pan. 94, Panic. Gen. 53, and Sp. 
Gram. Ic. t. 120 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 52 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 20 ; 
Small, FI. S.-E. U. Stat. 78 ; Hitchcock in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb, 
xii. 136 ; Hitchcock k Chase in Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb, xviii. 307 ; 
not of P. Beauv. FI. Owar. P. vaginatum, forma longipes, Lange in 
Vidensk. Medd. Naturh. Foren. Kjobenh. 1854, 42, and Pug. Plant. 
Hisp. i. 28. P. distichum, N. L. Burm. FI. Ind. 23 ; Gsertn. Fruct. ii. 2, 
t. 80 ; Kunth, l.c. ; Steud. l.c., 29 ; Baker, FI. Maurit. 431 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. vii. 460 ; Hack, in Forschungsr. S.M.S. “ Gazelle,'’ iv. 6 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 737 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 
12 ; Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvi. 319 ; Ridley, Mat. FI. 
Mai. Pen. iii. 124 ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 371, and in Johnston, 
Liberia, ii. 666 ; Merrill in Philipp. Journ. Sc. i. Suppl. i. 346 ; Backer 
in Teysmannia, xxiv. 423, t. 9 ; not of Linn. P. distichum , var. vagi- 
natum, Griseb. FI. Brit. W. Ind. 541. P. littorale, R. Br. Prodr. 188 ; 
Trin. Gram. Pan. 95, and Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 112 : Kunth, l.c. 51. P. 
longiflorum, P. Beauv. FI. Owar. ii. 46, t. 85, fig. 2; Grab. Cat. 
Bomb. 234 ; not of Retz. P. brachiatu?n, Trin. ex Nees, Agrost. Bras. 
62. P. foliosum, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 25. P. squamatum, Steud. 
l.c. 21. P. inflatum, A. Rich, in Ram. de Sagra, FI. Cub. iii. 298. 
P. Ideinianum , Presl, Rel. Hamk. i. 209 ; Steud. l.c. 29. P. boryanum , 
Presl, l.c. ; Steud. l.c. Digitaria foliosa, Lag. Gen. et Sp. Nov. 4. 
D. vaginata, Philippe, FI. d. Pyren. ii. 415. D. paspaloides, var. 
longipes , Lange ex Willk. & Lange, Prodr. FI. Hisp. i. 45. Sangui- 
naria vaginata, Bub. FI. Pyren. iv. 258. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Roger ! Heudelot, 451! Liberia: Monrovia, 
Naumann, 31. Southern Nigeria : sandy shores of the Nun River, Vogel, 60 ! 
Oameroons : in crevices of rocks on the shore, Batanga, Bates, 340 ! Fernando 
Po : creeping on the beach, Mann, 441 ! St. Thome, Don ! 
Nile Land. Somaliland : near Burao and on the road to Upper Sheikh, and 
at Lower Sheikh and Bahindula, Appleton ! Socotra, Balfour, 236 ! 305 ! 
Schweinfurth, 717! Uganda : Unyoro, Speke & Grant ! 
Lower Guinea. French Gaboon, Jardin. Angola : Loanda, W elwitscli, 
7327 ! Mossamedes; in salt marsh between the Cable Station and the River 
Bero, Pearson, 2166 ! 2181 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Zanzibar Island, Sacleux, 1819 ! German East Africa : 
Tanga, Holst, 2073 ! Volkens, 179 ! Portuguese East Africa : on the Zambesi, 
Kirk ! 
Throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, mostly on the seashore ; also 
