Urochloa .] clvii. gkamine.® (Stapf). 601 
over J lin. long. Grain rotundate-elliptic, almost flat on both sides, 
dull greenish ; scutellum over half the length of the grain . — Panicum 
insculjptum, Steud.Syn. PI. Glum. i. 49; Jardin, Ape^uFl. Gabon. 15 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 751 ; Pobeguin, Ess. FI. Guin. 
Frang. 214 ; Cheval. Sudania, 32. P. exasjperatum, Nees ex Steud. 
l.c. 62 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 748. P. amplexifolium, Hochst. in 
Flora, 1855, 194 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 740 ; Schweinf. Plant. Util. 
Eritrea, 53 (sphalm. P. amplexicaule) ; Cheval. Sudania, 160. 
P. cemulans, Hochst. l.c. 195. P. leersioides, Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 21 (partly, no. 895). P. breviradiatum, Hochst. 
l.c. 195 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 303. P. bispiculatum , 
Hochst. ex Chiov. l.c. P. trichojpus, var. lasiostachys, Stapf ex Cheval. 
Sudania, 146 (the Kabas Mara specimens). 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Kouroussa, Pobeguin, 478 ! French 
Sudan : Djenne on the Middle Niger, Chevalier, 2196 ! Gold Coast : Christians- 
borg, Johnson, 1013 ! 1031 ! Dahomey : Ajuda, Newton, 2-23 ! Southern 
Nigeria : Lagos, Macgregor, 109 ! Northern Nigeria : Nupe ; in shady 
ravines, Barter, 1369 ! Katagum District, Dalziel, 252 ! Sokoto, common in 
fields, Dalziel, 477 ! 
North Central. Central Chari : Kabas Mara, Chevalier, 8809 bis ! Bagirmi : 
Bahr Erguig ; Nigui, Chevalier, 9464 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Beni Amer ; Monte Damba, Pappi, 5970 ! Caraijai, 
Pappi, 6239, 6344 ! Dembelas ; Ferfer, Pappi, 6154. Abyssinia : Gallabat ; 
Matamma, Schweinf urth, 1158! 1174! Tigre ; in the fields of the Hamedo 
plain, Schimper, 1085 ! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1088 ! Samen ; 
Tacazze Valley, Schimper, 1655 ! Goelleb ; in shady places on the banks of the 
Tacazze, Schimper, 186 ! 2143 ! Jaja, Schimper, 1213 ! (in Herb. Brussels, 
partly), and without precise locality, Schimper in Herb. Buchinger, 1161, 1213 ! 
Sudan : Deesa, Broun, 787 ! Jur : Ghattas’ Great Seriba, Schweinfurih, 2302 ! 
Lower Guinea. Guinea ; without precise locality, Jardin ! 
Also in tropical Arabia (Schweinf urth, 895 !). Said to be very good fodder 
(Schweinf urth). 
The only specimen with pubescent spikelets I have seen is Dalziel’s from 
Sokoto. It very much resembles pubescent forms of U. Helopus, but may be 
distinguished from it by the smaller acute fcr apiculate but not acuminate 
spikelets with their constantly 7 -nerved upper glume. 
11. U. reptans A ^Stapf. Annual or subperennial (?), usually 
prostrate or creeping, throwing up secondary culms from the rooting 
nodes of the often long-decumbent base, the lower secondary culms 
frequently behaving like the primary, or sometimes the culms 
gathered into more contracted tufts, from J to 1 J ft. high, internodes 
slender to very slender, numerous, those of the decumbent base 
frequently angular or compressed and bare, of the erect or ascending 
portions of the culms terete and except the uppermost more or less 
sheathed, all glabrous. Leaf-sheaths loose or the upper somewhat 
tight, quite glabrous and smooth except at the densely ciliate 
margins and frequently pubescent nodes, or occasionally sparingly 
hairy ; ligules reduced to a shortly ciliate rim ; blades lanceolate to 
ovate- or linear-lanceolate, J-2J in. by 2J-8 lin., rounded to sub- 
cordate at the base, attenuated from low down to an acute point, 
