Panicum.\ 
CL VII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
707 
long, rarely the terminal elongated. Spikelets ovoid, acuminate, 
turgid, about 2 lin. long, glabrous, glaucous, soon more or less gaping. 
Glumes firmly membranous, subequal and about as long as the lower 
floret, or the lower slightly longer, the latter lanceolate and acutely 
acuminate in profile, 7-nerved, the upper obliquely ovate and acute 
or subacuminate in profile, 9-nerved, both rounded on the back, 
nerves prominent upwards. Lower floret ; valve very like the 
upper glume and also 9-nerved ; valvule broad-oblong, acute, flaps 
widened downwards ; anthers over 1 lin. long. Upper floret 
lanceolate- to elliptic-oblong in outline, acute, about 1J lin. by 1 lin., 
very convex on the back, polished, brownish when ripe ; valve and 
valvule more or less coriaceous ; anthers 1 lin. long. Grain elliptic- 
rotundate, apiculate, convex on both sides, fuscous, slightly over 
1 lin. long. — Delile, FI. Egypte, 19, t. 9, fig. 2 ; Trin. Diss. Gram. 
Pan. 189, Gram. Icon. & Descr. ii. 227, and Pan. Gen. 221, 
and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. ser. vi. iii* 307 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 
97 ; Fig. & De Not. in Mem. Ac. Torin. ser. 2, xiv. 354 ; Steud. Syn. 
PL Glum. i. 88; Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 301, in Verh. Zool. 
Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, xv. 557, Piant. Util. Eritrea, 53 ; in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. ser. ii. App. ii. 23; Boiss. FI. Or. v. 441; Aschers. & Schweinf. 
111. FI. figypte, 160, 778, 807, 813 ; Duthie, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 
13 ; Martelli in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. xx. 368, 371 ; Balf. f. Bot. 
Socotra, 310 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 766 ; Hook. f. Fh 
Brit. Ind. vii. 44 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vi. 166 ; viii. 
34, 307 ; Engl. Yeget. Verhalt. Somaliland, 10, 43, 44; Stapf in 
Kew Bulletin, 1907, 214 ; Chevai. Sudania, 25 ; Muschler, Man. FI. 
Egypt, i. 57. P. nubicum, Fig. & De Not. in Mem. Ac. Torin. ser. 2, 
xiv. 352, t. 21, fig. 1-12 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 756. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia : without precise locality, Heudelot , 393 1 
French Sudan Timbooctoo, on dunes near Korioume on the banks of the 
Niger, Chevalier, 1221 ! 
Nile Land. Nubia : Soturba Mountains, filling the wadis, Schweinf urth, 
Erba Mountains, between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent ! Otau, Johnston, 12 ! 
Tokar, Massey ! Wadi Laemeb, Schweinfurth, 509 ! Wadi-Halfa, Letourneux, 
310 ! “ Nubian desert,” Petherick ! Eritrea : Dahlak Archipelago ; Sciumma 
Island, Tellini. 76, 769. Damoeita ; Assar-Ka Island, Terracciano, 2619 ; 
Dilemmi Island, Terracciano, 817. Assab, Beccari. Samhar ; Massaua, 
Arcadipane, Cocastelli. Mokullo, Schweinfurth ; Otumlo, Tellini, 42 ; Terrac- 
ciano do Pappi, 2583 and 2587. Dogali, Terracciano do Pappi, 2624 ; Emberemi, 
Pappi, 1627 ! Habab ; various localities, Terracciano do Pappi, 1026, 1628, 
1629. Assaorta ; Valley of Camaile, Pappi, 5892 ! Arkiko, Pappi, 2623 ! and 
numerous other localities quoted by Chiovenda, l.c. Dembesa, along the Mai 
Atal, Pappi, 4759. Bogos ; Keren, Tellini, 810. Baza ; Badum, along the 
Mareb river, Pappi, 6839. Barca, Agordat, Terracciano do Pappi, 2815 ; 
Agordat-Adarte, Terracciano do Pappi, 2757. Cordofan : Abu Gerad, Kotschy, 
29 ! Darfur : El Fasher, Pfund ! Somaliland : Zeyla, Drake- Brockman, 715 1 
between Hargeisa and Berbera, Robecchi. Laku, Keller, 139 ! Mandera, 
Keller, 143 ! Socotra: Galonsir, Schweinfurth, 717 ! and without precise locality, 
Balfour, 75 ! 
Also in Egypt, Cyprus, Southern Palestine, and eastwards through Southern 
Persia and Baluchistan to Sind. 
Excellent fodder for camels. 
