Urocfiloa.] clvii. gramineje (Stapf). 598 
3- or 4-seriate, simple, up to 3 in. long, solitary and rather evenly 
distributed or here and there approximate ; rhachis triquetrous, 
pubescent and beset near the margin with tubercle-based spreading 
hairs, flat and striate on the back, J-f lin. wide, margins scabrid, 
internodes §— | lin. long ; pedicels solitary and simple or the lower 
or all with 1 (rarely 2) secondary pedicel at the base, slender, very 
short (up to J lin. long), pubescent with subdiscoid tips. Spikelets 
rather close, at first imbricate, then more or less obliquely spreading 
and laterally contiguous or discontiguous, ovate - lanceolate, 
acuminate, 2J-2J lin. long, pale green or slightly tinged with purple, 
with a small shortly bearded callus at the base. Glumes rather 
dissimilar, thinly membranous ; lower lanceolate, subobtuse to 
acute, lf-2 lin. long, very finely pubescent, finely 5-7-nerved ; 
upper glume corresponding in size and outline to the spikelet, if not 
narrower, finely 5-7-nerved, pubescent. Lower floret $ : valve 
very like the upper glume, slightly depressed and finely pubescent 
between the fringed flexures, 5-7-nerved, fringes silvery, appressed, 
their cilia almost confined to the lower half of the flexure, but reaching 
forward to the tips or almost so ; valvule oblong, acute, almost as 
long as the valve ; anthers f-1 lin. long. Upper floret b, elliptic in 
outline, 1-1J lin. long, whitish-green ; valve delicately granular, 
rugulose, mucro fine, lin. long. — Panicum brachyurum, Hack, in 
Yerhandl. Bot. Yer. Prov. Brandenb. xxx. (1888) 142, and in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 14 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
742. 
Lower Guinea. South-west Africa : Amboland ; Olukonda, Schinz , 638 ! 
between Ondonga and Unkuanyama, Rautanen ! 
Mozambique Distr^Be^ni^naland : Maf eking, Sutton's collector, 21 ! 
5. U. holhoaes^StoR/! Perennial, in dense tufts from a short pre- 
morse usually densely tomentose rhizome, 1 to over 2 ft. high ; innova- 
tions intra vaginal. Culms erect or ascending, slender, about 3-noded, 
terete or the lowest internode compressed and the following 1 or 2 
as long as or shorter than the adjoining sheath, the uppermost 
(peduncle) long-exserted. Leaf-sheaths tight or at length slipping 
off the culm, the lower more or less compressed and keeled upwards, 
more or less spreadingly hairy to densely tomentose, particularly 
downwards, the uppermost terete and sparingly hirsute, nodes 
finely pubescent to (the upper) almost glabrous or the lower bearded ; 
ligules reduced to a dense fringe of white cilia ; blades linear from 
an equally wide or slightly attenuated base, long-tapering to an acute 
or slightly callous point, 6-9 in. by 3-4 J lin., flat, pale green, rather 
firm, vestiture consisting of a fine greyish pubescence combined with 
more or less numerous or even dense (particularly downwards) fine 
spreading hairs or only of the latter and these usually scanty except 
towards the base, or green and quite glabrous except for the cilia 
of the finely cartilaginous and scabrid margin, midrib slender, 
prominent below, whitish above, primary lateral nerves about 5 on 
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