Oplismenus.] clvii. graminea] (Stapf). 63B 
Hitchcock & Chase in Conti*. U.S. Nat. Herb, xviii. 344. 0. brasi- 
liensis, Raddi, Agrost. Bras. 4=0. 0. velutinus, Schult. f. Mant. ii. 271 ; 
Kunth, Enum. l.c. 0. oahuaensis, Steud. Nomencl. ed. 2, ii. 260. 
0. capensis, Hochst. in Flora, 184:6, 114:. 0. undulatifolius, Rendle, 
Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 184: ; not of P. Beauv. 0. barbifultus , Hochst. 
ex Hack. l.c. 0. simplex, K. Schum. in Engl. Glied. Veget. Usambara 
in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894:, 4:8 (name). 0. compositus, Rendle, 
1. c. ; Cummins in Kew Bulletin, 1898, 81 ; not of P. Beauv. Panicum 
hirtellum, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 10, ii. 870, and Amoen. Acad. v. 391 ; 
Sw. Obs. 35 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 44 (the West Indian plant). 
P. loliaceum, Lam. Encycl. iv. 7 43, only as to the West Indian plant ; 
Trin. Gen. Pan. 124, and in Mem. Acad. Sc. St. Petersb. 6 me ser. iii. 
212 ; Doell in Mart. El. Bras. ii. ii. 145, t. 23. P. africanum , Poir. 
Encycl. Suppl. iv. 275. P. incanum, Schum. in Schum. k Thonn. 
Beskr. Guin. PL 60. P. velutinum, G. Meyer, Prim. El. Esseq. 51 ; 
Steud. l.c. P. Kraussii, Steud. l.c. 45. P. compositum, Doell in Mart. 
FI. Bras. ii. ii. 146, at least in part ; not of Linn. P. compositum , var. i. , 
Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 188 ; Baker, FI. Maurit. 439. P. sylvaticum, 
Steud. l.c. 108, partly ; not of Lam. P. sylvaticum, var. a, Trin. Gen. 
Pan. 124, and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6 me ser. iii. 212. P. pseudo- 
undulatifolium, Jardin, Aper§u FI. Gabon. 1891, 15 ; not of Roem. 
k Schult. Orthopogon sp., R. Br. Prodr. 194, in obs. 0. hirtellus, 
Spreng. Syst. i. 306 ; not of Nutt. 0. loliaceus and 0. velutinus, 
Spreng. l.c. 0. africanus, Sweet, Hort. Brit. ed. i. 448. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands: S. Nicolao; Monte Gordo, 5000 ft., 
Lowe ! Foge ; Mount Queimado, Lowe ! Sierra Leone : in forest near Lester 
Peak, Scott Elliot, 3854 ! Mamaha, Thomas, 4639 ! (*partly) Ronietta, Thomas, 
5401 ! Kumrabai, Thomas, 6791 ! Pujahun, Thomas, 7987 ! and without 
precise locality, Don ! French Guinea : Baffing Valley, Pobeguin, 1737 ! 
Liberia : within 20 miles of Kakatown, Whyte ! * Ivory Coast : Bouroukru, 
in primary forest, Chevalier, 16572 ! * Ashanti : Assin Yan Kumassi, Cummins, 
142! Gold Coast: Akwapim, Johnson, 781 !* Aburi Hills, Johnson, 294! 
and without precise locality, Thonning. Togo : Sokoda-Baravi, in savannah, 
Schroeder, 159 ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos ; in shady places in the Ikoyi bush, 
Dalziel, 1324 ! * MacGregor, 301 ! * Chama, Koto, Oware and Benin, 
Beauvois ! Agege, Kitson ! Oban, Talbot, 849 ! Northern Nigeria : in shady 
situations on the Kebba road. Parsons, 26 ! Cameroons : Cameroon Peak, 6000 
ft., Johnston, 96 ! Yaunde Station, Zenker 6s Staudt, 38 ! 483 ! 647 ! * Johann - 
Albrecht Hohe, Staudt, 450 ! Bipinde, Zenker, 1214 ! * Buea, Preuss ! * and 
without precise locality (probably near Victoria), Preuss, 1305 ! 1355 ! * in 
shady bush near Batanga, Bates, 86 ! Fernando Po, Mann, 112 ! Vogel, 140 ! 
Prince’s Island, Barter, 1969 ! * Pico de Papagaio at 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 
2926 ! * 
Lower Guinea. S. Thomas Island : by the shore at Santa Anna, and at Ango- 
lares, 150 ft., Moller and Quintas, 142 ! * at 2000 ft., Mann ! * Monte Caffe, 
1000-2500 ft., Welwitsch, 2886 ! * Moller ! and without precise locality, Don ! 
Macambrara, Santa Maria, 3900-4100 ft., Moller, 141 ! ** summit of the Peak, 
6900 ft., Mann ! ** Santa Maria, 3900-4100 ft., Moller ! Gaboon : without 
precise locality, Thollon, 654!* Jardin ! French Congo: Loango ; at the 
Makunga spring near Chinchoxo, Soyaux, 81 ! and without precise locality, 
Thollon ! * Belgian Congo : Lower Congo, Smith ! Stanley Pool Distr. ; 
Lower Kasai river, Vanderyst, 4320 ! * Kitebe, Vanderyst, 4068 ! Kimuenza 
