Oplismenus .] 
CL VII. GRAMINE^ (Stapf). 
637 
long or almost so, brownish, polished ; valve and valvule papery, the 
former faintly 7-nerved. Anthers \ lin. long. Stigmas moderately 
long, red. Grain lanceolate-oblong, almost 1 lin. long, convex on 
the back, almost flat on the face, with a narrow oblong hilum almost 
half the length of the grain. — Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 482 ; Kunth, 
Rev. Gram.i. 44, and Enum. i. 139, Suppl. 101 ; Trin. Ic. et Descr. 
Gram. t. 193 ; Eranch. & Savat. Enum. PI. Jap. ii. 160 ; Duthie, 
List Grass. N.-W. Ind. 8, 111. Indig. Eodd. Grass, t. 47, and Fodd. 
Grass. N. Ind. 13 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 771 ; Franch. 
Contr. FI. Congo Fran§. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, viii. 362 
(reprint 50) ; Balf. f. Bot. Socotra, 312 ; Hook, f . FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 68, 
and in Trim. Handb.Fl. Ceyl. v. 169 ; Cheval. Sudania, 90, and Etudes 
FI. Afr. Centr. Fran9. i. 366. 0. Burmannii , var. albidulum, N. E. Br. 
in Gard. Chron. 1886, xxvi. 776. 0. albus , Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 
890. 0. bromoides, P. Beauv. l.c. 0. humboldtianus, Nees, Agrost. 
Bras. 264 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 140. 0. cristatus, Presl, Rel. Haenk. i. 
323 ; Kunth, l.c. 141 ; Hitchcock in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. xvii. 
255. 0. affinis, Presl, l.c. 0. Preslei, Kunth, l.c. 0. indicus , Duthie, 
List Grass. N.-W. Ind. 8 ; not of Roem. & Schult. 0. africanus , 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 184 ; Chase in Proc. Biol. Soc. 
Washington, xxiv. 152, fig. 15. Panicum Burmanni j Retz. Obs. iii. 
10 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 298 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 121, and in Mem. Acad. 
Sc. St. Petersb. 6me ser. iii. 209 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 44 ; Baker, 
FI. Maurit. 438 ; Doell in Mart. FI. Bras. ii. ii. 148. P. bromoides , 
Lam. 111. i. 170, and Encycl. iv. 732. P. hirtellum, N. L. Burm. FI. Ind. 
t. 12, fig. 1 ; Host, Gram. Austr. iii. t. 52 ; not of Linn. P. multi - 
setum, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 377. P. japonicum, 
Steud. in Flora, 1846, 18. Orthovoqon albus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. PI. 
Glum. i. 44 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 442. 0. Burmanni, Miq. l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands : S. Antao ; ribeira da Torre, Lowe ! 
St. Nicolai, Bolle ! S. Vincent ; Monte Verde, Lowe ! Senegambia : without 
precise locality, Heudelot, 590 ! Sierra Leone : Mamaha, Thomas, 4414 ! 
Bumbuna, 650 ft., Thomas 9 3343 ! Ronietta, 250 ft., Thomas, 5292 ! French 
Guinea : around Kouria, Chevalier, 14924 ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, MacGregor, 
100 ! Ndoni Town, Baiter, 1767 ! and without precise locality, Thomas, 1753 ! 
Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker & Staudt, 515 ! Fernando Po : in swampy places, 
Vogel, 212 ! in open woods, Vogel, 246 ! Ansell ! 
North Central. Upper Oubangui ; Krebedje ; Fort Sibut, Chevalier, 6067 \ 
between Krebedje and Mpokou poste, Chevalier, 6068 ! 
Nile Land. Jur : Abu Gurun’s Seriba, Schweinfurth, 177 ! Abyssinia : by 
the Tacaze near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1469 ! Socotra ; south of Tamarid, 
Schweinfurth, 422 ! Balfour, 295 ! 
Lower Guinea. Island of S. Thomas ; Mount Cafe, Guegue, 2500 ft., Moller, 
140 ! Gaboon : without precise locality, Thollon ! Belgian Congo : Stanley 
Pool Distr. ; Mokaba, Vanderyst, 3697 ! 3780 ! Angola : Golungo Alto ; in 
grassy wooded places near Cungulungulo, Welwitsch, 7203 ! Mount Queta, by 
the Cuango river, Welwitsch, 7252 ! in maize fields near Sange, Welwitsch, 3003 ! 
Huilla ; in shady woods by the Monino river, Welwitsch, 2696 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Lake Nyasa, Simons ! 
Widely distributed throughout the tropics of both hemispheres. 
