654 clvii. gramineze (Stapf). [Panicum. 
4. P. adenophorum, K. Schum. in Engl. Pflauzenw. Ost - 
Afr. C. 103. Evidently perennial, apparently a tall rambling 
grass. Culms moderately slender, terete, many-noded, simple for 
a long distance from the panicle downwards, internodes enclosed 
or very shortly exserted, pubescent upwards, the hairs from 
small tubercles. Leaf-sheaths very tight, terete, pubescent like 
the culms, striate ; ligule a densely ciliate rim ; blades lanceo- 
late-linear from a slightly rounded base, long- and acutely acuminate, 
3-3 J in. by 3-5 lin., spreading, flat, rather firm, pale to glaucous- 
green, finely pubescent all over, margins rough, midrib very fine, 
whitish below, not or indistinctly differentiated above from the very 
numerous and close nerves. Panicle hardly exserted from the 
uppermost sheath, rather flexuous, broad-ovate in outline, 4 in. (up 
to 8 in. according to Schumann ) by almost 3 in., widely open 
and very loose, divided to the third degree, bearing on the 
common axis and all its divisions spreading hairs with clavellate 
tips ; common axis filiform, angular, very finely shortly and 
loosely hairy except for the clavellate hairs, internodes 9-6 lin. 
long ; primary branches very loosely divided from the base or very 
near it, subcapillary, flexuous, terete, smooth, glabrous except for 
the scanty clavellate hairs, the longest up to almost 3 in. long, inter- 
nodes 10-5 lin. long ; secondary up to over 1 in. long, very scantily 
and distantly divided ; pedicels very unequal, lower short to very 
short, upper and terminal up to 5 lin. long, very flexuous, all with 
very fine long hairs (besides the clavellate) towards the discoid tips. 
Spikelets elliptic-oblong, obtuse, up to 1 J lin. long, somewhat turgid, 
pale green, variegated with purple, quite glabrous. Glumes unequal, 
membranous, faintly nerved, concave ; lower obliquely lanceolate or 
ovate-lanceolate, subacute in profile, J-f lin. long, 5-nerved ; upper 
obliquely oblong in profile, rather broad-elliptic when flattened out, 
subobtuse, as long as the spikelet, 9-nerved. Lower floret ; valve 
very similar to upper glume, but slightly narrower; valvule oblong, sub- 
acute, almost as long as the valve, keels minutely scaberulous ; anthers 
1 lin. long. Upper floret oblong, subobtuse, 1J lin. long, whitish : 
valve and valvule tough, papery, smooth or obscurely granular. 
Nile Land. Uganda : Ruwenzori ; very common in open places in the forests, 
5000-8000 ft., Scott Elliot, 7640! Ankole; in shady woods near Ruhanga, 
8200 ft., Stuhlmann, 2143, 2331. 
5. P. flacciflorum, Stapf. Annual (?), base unknown, up to 3 ft. 
high (according to the collector). Culms very slender, anfractuous 
and much branched up to the middle with the branches flowering, 
angular, spreadingly and shortly pubescent upwards, terete, glabrous 
except for some gland-tipped hairs below the panicle, and very 
smooth and almost filiform, internodes short in the branched part, 
much longer above. Leaf-sheaths loose, subherbaceous, strongly 
striate, softly and loosely hirsute with tubercle-based hairs, the 
lower and intermediate shorter to (upwards) much shorter than the 
