594 clvii. GBAMiNEiE (Stapf). [ Urochloa . 
each side, very fine, quite inconspicuous above. Inflorescence 
terminal, borne on a long slender peduncle, of few to many (up to 20) 
suberect or spreading mostly flexuous sessile or subsessile racemes ; 
common axis slender, J-2J (rarely up to 4) in. long, semiterete below, 
flatter upwards, pubescent on the adaxial side or all over or sometimes 
villosulous. Racemes somewhat dense, 2-4-seriate, simple or sub- 
composite at the base, from J to 2J (rarely to over 3) in. long, evenly 
distributed or more often approximate upwards, or if numerous here 
and there crowded into false whorls ; rhachis not wavy, subtrique- 
trous, rather flat, villous or villosulous at the base, glabrous upwards 
on the green or purplish back, puberulous on the face, angles scabrid 
and the lateral often with spreading long fine tubercle-based hairs, 
internodes f-1 lin. long ; pedicels solitary, reduced to short upwards 
thickened stumps, or the lowest or all but the uppermost elongated 
(to over 1 lin.), slender, disc-tipped, bearing 1-3 secondary pedicels 
with perfect or more or less reduced spikelets and forming thus very 
short racemules, puberulous or scabrid and often with 1 or 2 spreading 
long hairs. Spikelets usually crowded, lanceolate-ovate to lanceo- 
late, acutely acuminate or subacuminate, 1J to almost 2 lin. long, 
quite glabrous or fringed, pale green or tinged with purple. Glumes 
somewhat dissimilar, membranous ; lower lanceolate from a widened 
base, acute, three-quarters the length of the spikelet, 5-7-nerved ; 
upper corresponding in size and outline to the spikelet, 7-nerved with 
a few delicate cross-veins. Lower floret : valve very similar to 
the upper glume, but 5-nerved with the inner side-nerves more 
distant, flat or slightly depressed, quite glabrous or with an appressed 
silky fringe along the flexures ; valvule lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, 
as long as the valve, keels finely marginate ; anthers f lin. long. 
Upper floret elliptic-oblong in outline, very much compressed, 
slightly over 1 lin. by over J lin., yellowish, very delicately wrinkled ; 
valve with a scaberulous mucro, up to \ lin. long. — Helojpus bolbodes, 
Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 100. Panicum oligotrichum, Pig. & De Not. 
in Mem. Ac. Torin. ii. xiv. 333, 1 . 1.0, figs. 1-14. P. bolbodes , Schweinf. 
Beitr. PL Aethiop. 300 (name) ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 
170, and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., xl. 229 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, viii. 35, 300 ( bulbodes ) ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. 
Afr. v. 299. P. numidianum, Hackel in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. 
iii. 14 ; not of Lam. Eriochloci bolbodes, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. ii. App. ii. 17 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. PL Afr. v. 738. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Amasen ; Ghinda-Baresa, 3300 ft., Terracciano & 
Pappi, 127 ; Ginda ; Girsa and Donkollo, 1970-3300 ft., Schweinf urth, 148, 
458 ; Amba ; stream near Gheleb, 7200 ft., Schweinf urth, 1480 ! Abyssinia : 
without precise locality, Schimper, 2021 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Loanda ; dried up ponds near Museque de Linz 
Gomes, Welwitsch, 7352 ! 7475 ! near ponds above Boa Vista, rare, Welwitsch, 
7352 b, and without precise locality, Welwitsch, 2906 ! Gossweiler, 190 ! 
Golungo Alto ; in sandy mud near Sange, Welwitsch, 7185 ! in fields and 
waysides near Camilungo and Ambaca, Welwitsch, 7188 ! Ambaca ; pastures 
by the River Lucala, Welwitsch, 2741 ! Pungo Andongo ; pastures near 
