Panicum.] 
GLVII. GRAMINE^S (Stapf). 
659 
to a long slender point, up to 1 \ ft. long, from 1 lin. wide at the folded 
base to over 5 lin. at the flat middle, rather firm and flexuous, more 
or less hairy like the sheaths, midrib slender, but very prominent 
below from the keeled portion of the blade upwards, nerves fine and 
very close, the primary laterals hardly differentiated. Panicle 
6-9 in. long, of 7-10 suberect fastigiate slender spiciform branches 
borne singly and at subequal or upwards shortened distances on a 
common axis, 3 -4 in. long, slender, more or less terete and pubescent 
or beset with long spreading hairs below, angular and scabrid 
upwards ; branches 3-5 in. long, the uppermost or at least some of 
them quite as long as the rest, filiform, upwards triquetrous, scabrid, 
bearing from the villosulous or pubescent base, or a short distance 
above it, 3-2-spiculate clusters or short racemes of spikelets, usually 
distant by less than their own length, the nodes usually with some 
long fine spreading white hairs ; pedicels subcapillary, scaberulous, 
often with long spreading hairs from below the minutely cupular 
tips, those of a cluster very unequal, the longest rarely much over 
1 lin. long. Spikelets oblong, acutely or mucronate-apiculate, 
from not quite 1J to over If lin. long, green or slightly tinged with 
purple, with usually black-purple tips, glabrous. Glumes very 
dissimilar, lower broad-ovate, subacute, about the length of the 
spikelet, subhyaline, faintly 3-nerved ; upper corresponding in size 
and outline to the broad back, convex, membranous, faintly 
5-nerved. Lower floret : valve very like the upper glume, but 
the back depressed along the midnerve ; valvule oblong, acute, 
flaps much widened downwards ; anthers § lin. long. Upper floret 
oblong, obtuse, about 1-1 J lin. long, whitish ; valve and valvule 
thinly crustaceous, finely transversely rugose. — Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 751. P. lasiocoleum, K. Schum. ex Engl. Glied. 
Yeget. Usambara, 14, 23, 35 (name only). 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Tanaland, Linton , 209 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann ! German East Africa : Usambara ; 
savannas near Tanga, Sacleux, 2000 ! Duga Bush, Holst, 3206 ! Portuguese 
East Africa : Mozambique ; in moist sand on the Querimba coast, Peters ! 
8. F. trichocladum, Hack, ex Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Prop. Afr. 119 
(name) ; K. Schum. in. Engl. Pjl. Ost-Afr. C. 103. Perennial, 
rambling or climbing up to 8 ft. Culms slender, many-noded, 
branched, particularly from the prostrate much geniculate and 
sometimes rooting bases, terete or the lowest compressed, glabrous 
or sometimes finely pubescent or softly and spreadingly hirsute 
below the nodes, the older internodes often completely bared. 
Leaf-sheaths rather firm, terete, the lower frequently slipping off the 
culms or breaking away, the upper tight, all usually quite glabrous 
and smooth except at the mouth, rarely softly pubescent all over, 
beardless at the nodes ; ligules reduced to a narrow membranous 
ciliolate rim ; blades almost horizontally spreading, linear-lanceolate 
