616 
clvti. GRAMiNEiE (Stapf). [Echinocliloa. 
(excluding the cusp or awn), straw-coloured, polished; valve and 
valvule coriaceous-crustaceous. — Panicum pyramidale , Lam. 111. i. 
171, excl. var. j8, and Encyc. iv. 745 ; Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 223, 
t. 23, and Enum. i. 93 (excl. var. j8) ; Trin. Panic. Gen. 157, in 
Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6 me ser. iii. 245 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Gluiii. 
i. 62 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 760 ; Franch. Con- 
trib. FI. Congo Frang. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, viii. 347 
(39 reprint) ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 395 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. 
PI. Welw. ii. 173; A. Cheval. in Act. Congr. Internat. Bot. Paris, 
255, in Rev. Colon, vii. (1900), 516, and Sudania, 32 ; Wood, 
Natal PI. t. 472 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 298 (incl. var. 
quadrifarium) ; Chiov. in Result. Scient. Miss. Stefanini-Paoli, i. 184, 
226 (P. pyramidatum, sphalm.). P . frumcntaceum, Benth. in Hook. 
Niger FI. 561 ; not of Roxb. P. plicatum, Benth. l.c. 561 (partly). 
P. polystachyum, Rich, ex Kunth, Enum. i. 93. P. quadrifarium, 
Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 367 ; Walp. Ann. Bot. iii. 
716 ; Steud. l.c. 63 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 301. P. atrovio- 
laceum, A. Rich. l.c. 368 ; Steud. l.c. 63 ; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop. 300 ; Durand k Schinz, l.c. 741. P. Crus-Galli, Durand k 
Schinz, l.c. 744 (partly) ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. Congol. 
631 (partly ?) ; not of Linn, (see under Echinocliloa Crus-Galli ) . P 
Crus-Galli, var. sphacelatum, Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Brot. vi. 140 
(name) ? P. Crus-Galli, var. polystachya, Munro ex Aschers. & 
Schweinf. 111. FI. figypte, 159 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. v. 745, and 
Etudes FI. Congo, i. 322 ; Th. k Hel. Durand, l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Lower Senegal: Mbidgen, Thierry, 14! Kaedi, Chevalier, 
2174 ! and without precise locality, Roger, xxii ! Heudelot, 443 ! Sierra 
Leone : Port Lokolo, Thomas, 5848 ! Alluvium near Wallia on the Searcies 
river, Scott Elliot, 4260 ! near Kassa, 10° N. Lat., 3600 ft., Scott Elliot, 5061 ! 
French Guinea : common in rivers and marshes in the Baffing Valley, Pobeguin, 
1735! Gold Coast: Cape Coast Castle, Vogel, 31! French Sudan: Middle 
Niger ; from Sebi to Lake Debo, Chevalier, 2173 ! Malina, Chevalier, 2175 ! 
2179, 1781, 1782. Segou ; Koundian, in gigantic tufts, Lecard, 125! North 
Nigeria : Nupe ; floating in the river in great masses, Barter, 1 156 ! Katagnm 
Distr., Dalziel, 255 ! Sokoto, Dalziel, 482 ! Lake Chad, forming meadows 
of 3-4 sq. miles, Vogel, 37 ! South Nigeria : Lagos ; marine foreshore, Dalziel, 
1327 ! Ibu (Obah), Vogel, 49 ! 
North Central. Central Shari : at the confluence of the Salomer river and 
Bahr el Abrod, Chevalier, 10512 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea: Maragus; Adi Mabit, 5000 ft., Pappi, 947; Sarae ; 
Adi Ugri, 5950 ft., Pappi, 82 ; Adi Gana, 5950 ft., Pappi, 273 ! Abyssinia : 
Tigre ; in swampy meadows near Adoa, Schimper, 206 ! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 998! 1008! 1108! and without precise locality, Petit \ 
Italian Somaliland : Lower Jub C Elvalda, Scassellati 6s Mazzocchi, 8 ; Arrar, 
Scassellati 6s Mazzoechi, 14, 15; Nassibimda, Paoli, 403; Margherita, Paoli, 
380 ; Mailable, east of the Jub, 2° N. Lat., Paoli, 764 ; Merca, Provenzale. 
British East Africa : Nairobi, Whyte ! Miss Johnstone, 53 ! in the Nairobi 
river, 3500 ft., Battiscombe, 489 ! Kisumu, 5400 ft., Dummer, 1935 ! banks of 
the Gilgil river, Scott Elliot, 6658 ! and without precise locality, Powell, 27 ! 
Cordofan : Birket-Rahad, Pfund, 543 ! White Nile, 7° 25' N. Lat., and 8° 30' 
N. Lat., P ether iclc ! Muriel, 1/99! Tonga, Broun, 1470! Mongalli, Broun , 
966 ! Bor Mission, Broun, 957 ! Bongoland : Culango, Schweinf urth, 2216 ! 
