678 cl vn. GKAMINE 2 E (Stapf). [Panicum. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Cataracts Distr. ; dry hillsides near Lutete, 
1800-2000 ft. , Hens, A. 245 (?), A. 279 ! Kwango Distr. ; Bandundu, Vanderyst, 
3556 ! Atene, Vanderyst, 3446 ! Mukulu, Vanderyst, 3193 ! Angola : Golungo 
Alto ; in damp thickets near Camilnngo, Welwitsch, 7213 ! Pungo Andongo ; 
in primaeval woods near Calundo, Welwitsch, 7434 ! Ponte do Luiz Simoes, 
Welwitsch, 7254 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Mount Sochi, 3000 ft., KirJc ! Shire High- 
lands, Buchanan ! Gazaland : near Chirinda, 3800 ft., Swynnerton, 1620 a ! 
Var. lasioneuron, Stapf ; leaf-blades 10-16 in. by 5-6 lin., lateral nerves (also 
the secondary) more prominent, primary of both sides loosely ciliate with stiff 
white hairs springing from minute tubercles. 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Msalu river, Allen, 131 ! 
31. P. anabaptistum, Sleud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 75. Perennial, 
up to 5 ft. high, from an oblique premorse rhizome emitting very 
coarse root-fibres ; innovations intr-a- and extra- vaginal, tbe latter 
rather slender, conical, almost pungent, covered with pale very firm 
smooth cataphylls. Culms erect or geniculately ascending, simple, 
terete, up to 5- or sometimes 7-noded, firm, quite glabrous and 
smooth. Leaf-sheaths tight, firm, usually quite glabrous and smooth, 
frequently slightly bearded at the mouth, rarely more or less shortly 
hirsute, closely striate ; ligule reduced to a shortly ciliate rim ; 
blades linear from an equally wide or slightly and gradually narrowed 
base, tapering to an acute point, 6-9 in. by 2-3 lin., flat, somewhat 
rigid, firm, usually quite glabrous except towards the ligules, rarely 
shortly greyish-hirsute to almost tomentose, smooth on both sides 
and along the margins or slightly rough along the latter owing to the 
presence of distant short rigid cilia, midrib distinct only in the lower 
part, like the very close and nunferous lateral nerves slender. Panicle 
oblong to oblanceolate in outline, 9-12 in. long, divided to the third 
or fourth degree, usually somewhat contracted ; common axis slender, 
terete, glabrous, smooth at least downwards, internodes rather 
unequal, the lower often up to or even over 2 in. long ; primary 
branches usually scattered, only occasionally subopposite or pseudo- 
verticillate, up to 6 in. long, slender, frequently flexuous, rarely 
undivided for more than 1 in. from the base, often branching low 
down ; penultimate divisions usually short to very short (hence the 
spikelets often clustered), filiform, slightly angular and scaberulous ; 
pedicels often paired, the secondary then very much shorter, hardly 
up to more than J lin. long. Spikelets ovate-oblong or ovate- 
lanceolate and acutely acuminate at first, soon more or less gaping, 
1J-2 lin. long, glabrous, pale greenish. Glumes firmly membranous, 
more or less prominently nerved, unequal, lower ovate-lanceolate, 
acutely acuminate or mucronate-acuminate, about half to over 
two-thirds the length of the spikelet, 5- to- sub-7-nerved, with an 
upwards scaberulous keel ; upper ovate-lanceolate in profile, as 
long as the spikelet, with an usually straight (not recurved) slender 
subulate or mucronate acumen, 7-9-nerved. Lower floret 
valve very like the upper glume, but usually somewhat shorter and 
