Panicum.] clvii. graminej^ (Stapf). 
715 
Var. minus, Stapf ex Chiov. in Result. Scient. Miss. Stefanini-Paoli, i. Rot. 
Coll. 183, 226. Culms slender, springing from short wiry stolons, the over- 
ground part usually starting with a bundle of branches or secondary culms, these 
not much over 1 ft. high, slender, 2-4-noded, with the uppermost node below 
the middle ; leaves nearly always glabrous or nearly so, blades rarely up to 
6 in. long, not over 2 lin. wide, more or less rigid and glaucous. Panicle erect, 
usually not much over 3 in. (rarely up to 9) long. — P. coloratum (forma minor), 
Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 214. P. repens, Stapf l.c. P. maximum, var. 
confine, Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Rot. Roma, viii. 33, 306 (excl. syn.). 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Dembelas ; Mantai on the upper Barka River, Schwem- 
furth, 15. Assaorta; Mount Gheden, Terracciano & Pappi, 2634. Amasen ; 
Ghinda-Baresa, 3300 ft., Terracciano & Pappi, 117. Dongollo, near Ghinda, 
Pappi, 4281 ; Mai-Atal-Dongollo, Tellini, 1583 ; Sabarguma Dongollo, Tellini, 
1685 ; Anseba torrent on the Ghinda plateau, Tellini, 558. British Somaliland : 
Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 98 ! 491 ! 493 ! near water at Bohotle, Buras 
and Upper Sheikh, Appleton ! Italian Somaliland : Dafit, between Wanle 
Wen and Ilduk Wen, Paoli, 1270 ; dunes near Brava, Mangano ; near Merca, 
Provenzale. British East Africa: Nairobi, Lyne, 153! Ukambani, sunny 
savanas on laterite, 3300 ft., S die filer, 199 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; west of the Pare 
Mountains, 650 ft.. Hohnel, 24 ! 
In habit rather different from typical P. coloratum, but probably nothing 
more than a xerophytic modification from a dryer region. 
69. P. Schinzii, Hack, in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 
xxx. 142. Annual, tufted, over 2 ft. high. Culms erect and straight- 
or subgeniculate, 2-3-noded, branched from the lowest 1 or 2 nodes, 
with the branches erect and subfastigiate, terete, soft and com- 
pressible, finely striate or here and there sulcate, glabrous and smooth, 
up to over 1J lin. in diam. towards the base. Leaf-sheaths shorter 
than the internodes, rather tight, striate, smooth and glabrous except 
at the delicately pubescent nodes ; ligule reduced to a ciliate narrow 
membranous rim ; blades linear from a broadly rounded semi- 
amplexicaul base, long-tapering to a fine point, up to over 6 in. by 
3-4 lin., flat, thin, flaccid, green, glabrous and quite smooth, also 
along the margins, midrib and primary lateral nerves (about 3 on 
each side) very slender. Panicle oblong to rotundate-obovate when 
fully opened out, loose, 6-7 in. by 2-5 in., divided to the fourth (rarely 
fifth) degree ; primary axis slender, striate, smooth below, scaberulous 
upwards ; primary branches solitary or approximate in pairs, 
obliquely erect or the lowest ultimately almost horizontal, somewhat 
stiff or flexuous, filiform, up to 6 in. long, mostly undivided for 
■J-f in. from the base, then loosely and evenly branched, the following 
divisions often secund, directed outwards, very fine, scaberulous, 
forming slender loose downwards compound racemes, 2-1 in. long, 
of 8-6 or upwards fewer spikelets ; pedicels very slightly thickened 
at the tips, lateral about J lin. long. Spikelets oblong, shortly 
acuminate or apiculate, slightly gaping when mature, slightly over 
1 lin. long, glabrous, greenish or tinged with brown. Glumes very 
thinly membranous, unequal, often persistent until after the shedding 
of the fruit and then falling one after the other ; lower appressed or 
at length somewhat spreading, broadly ovate, acute, clasping, 
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