686 
CL VII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[. Panicum . 
Lower Guinea. French Congo : in dry plains near Brazzaville, Thollon, 389 ! 
Chevalier, 4166 ! Belgian Congo : Stanley Pool Distr. ; Wombali, Yanderyst, 
4483 ! Angola : Benguella ; country of the Ganguellas and Ambuellas, 
Gossweiler, 2359 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Elisabethville, Rogers, 10318 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Tanganyika Plateau ; Fort Hill, Whyte ! 
Shire Highlands, Adamson, 194 ! Mayomero Mission, 3000 ft., Waller ! Man- 
ganja Hills, Waller ! Zomba, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! and without precise 
locality, Buchanan ! Northern Rhodesia : Kankasa Spruit, Kdssner, 2098 ! 
near water and on swampy ground near M’rewa, Appleton, 8 ! 21 ! Mashona- 
land ; Charter District, Mundy ! Umtali, Hon. Mrs. Cecil, 273 ! Salisbury, 
4900 ft., Eyles, 620 ! Stapleford Farm near Salisbury, Mrs. Cr aster, 77 ! 78 ! 
South Rhodesia : Ingesi, Nobbs, 683 ! Gwelbi Flat, Nobbs, 605 ! and without 
precise locality, 5200 ft., Walters, 2245 ! 2267 ! Gazaland : Nyahodi river, 
Swynnerton, 1669 ! Portuguese East Africa : in open woods near Beira, 
Swynnerion, 1592 ! 
Also in the Transvaal and Natal. Said to be good fodder {Appleton). 
40. P. Pilgeri, Mez in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 146. Perennial, up 
to 4 ft. high. Culms erect, rather slender, simple, 3-noded, softly 
and very finely hirsute, particularly the lower internodes. Leaf- 
sheaths tight, softly and loosely or densely hirsute, up to 3 in. long, 
shorter than the internodes ; ligules thinly ' membranous, up to 
lin. long, ciliolate ; blades linear from an equally wide base, long- 
tapering to a slender point, up to 14 in. by 2 lin., flat or involute, 
firm, softly hirsute on both sides, midrib and primary lateral nerves 
about 4 on each side, slender, prominent. Panicle oblong, con- 
tracted, somewhat dense, up to 8 in. long, stiffly erect, divided up 
to the fourth (rarely fifth) degree, all the axes including the pedicels 
with long loose white hairs ; primary axis slender, terete, striate 
or sulcate, rough ; primary branches solitary or approximate in 
pairs or threes, branched from near the base and forming false 
whorls of very unequal divisions (the longest up to 4 in. long), with 
somewhat distant small clusters of spikelets (penultimate divisions) 
below the loose terminal raceme ; lateral pedicels from very short to 
2 lin. long, their hairs up to over 1 lin. long. Spikelets ovate, 
acuminate in outline, gaping, 1 lin. long, pale or tinged with purple, 
glabrous. Glumes similar, membranous, faintly nerved, long- 
acuminate, the acumen passing into a fine scaberulous mucro or 
awnlet up to J lin. long ; lower obliquely lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- 
late, without the mucro or awn slightly shorter than the lower 
floret, prominently 3-nerved ; upper broader, 5-nerved, as long as 
the lower floret, the mucro or awnlet shorter. Lower floret : 
valve ovate, subacute, finely 5-nerved ; valvule slightly shorter, 
oblong, acute, flaps gradually widened downwards ; anthers J lin. 
long. Upper floret §, elliptic-oblong in outline, obtuse, § lin. long, 
whitish, glossy and smooth ; valve and valvule crustaceous. — 
P. lasiopodum , Stapf in Journ. de Bot. 1905, 105 ; Pobeguin, Ess. 
FI. Guin. Erany. 214. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Kouroussa, Pobeguin, 500 ! Northern 
Nigeria : Nupe; in open plains, Barter, 1377 ! 
