714 cl vn. graminejb (Stapf). \Panicum. 
conspicuous, primary nerves very slender, 3-8 on each side. Panicle- 
erect or nodding, contracted or widely open, oblong or obovate, 
from 4 to over 12 in. (mostly over 6 in.) long, and when quite open 
up to over 6 in. wide and very loose, quite glabrous, divided up to 
the fourth degree, all divisions finely filiform to capillary, straight or 
flexuous, upwards angular and scaberulous ; primary axis very 
slender, terete, striate or grooved and angular, scaberulous to scabrid 
or smooth below ; primary branches solitary or approximate in 
pairs or false whorls, distant, the lowest about three-quarters the 
length of the panicle, loosely divided, in large panicles the lower often 
from 1-2J in. above the base, with the branchlets up to 2 and even 
3 in. long, penultimate divisions forming very loose 3-2-spiculate 
racemes ; pedicels with cupular tips, the lateral J-1J lin. long. 
Spikelets oblong, acute or acutely acuminate, 1-1J lin. long, not or 
moderately gaping except during flowering, glabrous, green or 
tinged with purple. Glumes very unequal, membranous ; lower 
very broadly ovate, clasping, acute, one-quarter to one-third the 
length of the lower floret, very thin, midnerve percurrent, side- 
nerves 1-2 on each side or 0, very short and fine ; upper 
corresponding in size and shape to the spikelet, 7-9-nerved, nerves 
prominent upwards. Lower floret $ : valve like the upper glume ; 
valvule as long as or slightly shorter than the valve ; anthers J-f lin. 
long. Upper floret b, narrow, oblong, subacute, up to -J lin. by 
f lin., yellowish or bright yellow, quite smooth and glossy; valve 
and valvule crustaceous.— Kunth, Enum. i. 104 ; Trin. Pan. Gen. 
182, and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6me ser. iii. 270 ; Eig. et De Not. 
in Mem. Ac. Torin. ser. ii. xiv. 355 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 73 ; 
Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 300, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. 
ii. 22, 95 ; Boiss. FI. Or. iv. 440 ; Aschers. & Schweinf. 111. FI. 
Egypte, Suppl. 778 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 743 
(partly) ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 409 ; Cheval. Sudania, 161 ; 
Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 2Q9. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Sokoto, in moist waste places, fields, 
edges of marshes, etc., Dalziel, 483 ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Tchecma, Chevalier, 9544 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Malange District, Gossweiler, 1488 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : between Lupata and Tete, 
Kirk ! Shupanga, Kirk ! Mazzaro, Kirk ! 30 miles below the Shire Falls, 
Meller, 4 ! Nyasaland : near Zomba, 2500-3500 ft., Whyte ! Rhodesia : 
Mashonaland ; Salisbury, Mrs. Craster, 34 ! Bechuanaland ; Eastern Baman- 
guato Territory, Holub ! Matabeleland ; Insiza District, Mundy ! Victoria 
Falls, Rogers, 5068. Southern Rhodesia: without precise locality, Walters, 
2234 ! 
Durand & De Wildeman {Mat. FI. Congo, i. 44 ; Reliq. Dewevr. 256 ; Dtudes 
FI. Bas- et Moyen Congo, i. 94, and Miss D. Laurent, 200) have indicated this 
species from several localities in the Belgian Congo (Boma, Dewevr e ; Cataracts, 
Lutete, Hens, A. 245, and A. 279 ; Stanley Pool Div., between Leopoldville and 
Sabuka, M. Laurent, and Kisantu, Gillet, 1510 ; Kasai Div. ; Island in the lower 
Sankuru, A. Laurent). The only specimen, however, which I have seen of this 
series is Hens, A. 279, and that is P. phragmitoides, Stapf. 
