Panicum.] clvii. gkamineje (Stapf). 
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and valvule transversely rugose, the former 3-nerved ; anthers 1 lin. 
long. — -Eyles in Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 299. 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia : Bulawayo, Jeffreys, 28. 
This was referred by the author to the § Brachiaria of Panicum. It is clearly 
a species of Urochloa, and evidently closely allied to U. jpullulans, Stapf, which 
has, however, usually densely and spreadingly bearded nodes, blades with a 
slender midrib, erect or suberect, 2-ranked and more evenly disposed racemes, 
elliptic-oblong spikelets and a 5-nerved upper glume and lower valve. 
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91. F. catangense, Chiov. in Ann. di Bot. Roma , xiii. 44. Perennial, 
CEespitose, coated at the base with the remains of old sheaths and 
culms ; innovations extra vaginal. Culms terete, slender, appressedly 
pubescent with clavellate-tipped hairs intermixed. Leaf-sheaths 
loose, longer than or as long as the internodes, closely striate, indu- 
mentum like that of the culms with a dense dorsal transverse line of 
whitish hairs at the upper end ; ligule a densely ciliate rim ; blades 
linear-lanceolate, slightly constricted at the base, tapering upwards 
to an obtuse tip, f-2J in. by 2-3 lin., the uppermost very short. 
Panicle ovate-pyramidal, loose ; lowest branches more or less 
arrested, barren, intermediate fascicled, 2 or 3 of a fascicle fertile, 
the rest arrested, upper solitary, the fertile branches erect and 
appressed to the common axis or (the upper) spreading, undivided 
at the base, often with some arrested spikelets, all the divisions 
slender, very minutely scaberulous, flexuous, glabrous except for 
some clavate-tipped hairs ; pedicels 1J-3 lin. long or the terminal 
much longer, with some clavate-tipped hairs near the tips which are 
hardly thickened. Spikelets narrowly oval, subterete, subacute, 
If lin. by almost \ lin. Lower glume rotundate-truncate, entire, 
half the length of the spikelet, 5merved ; upper oblong, two-thirds 
the length of the spikelet, truncate or rotundate or minutely and 
irregularly dentate, 7-nerved, nerves somewhat stout. Lower floret 
barren : valve elliptic, similar to the upper glume, 7 -nerved ; 
valvule 0. Upper floret narrowly ovate, with a slightly incurved 
tip, pale yellowish, dull, but quite smooth and glabrous ; valve and 
valvule cartilaginous. 
South. Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Bianos plateau, Katantania, 
Bovone, 92. 
Evidently nearly allied to P. jpectinellum, Stapf, after which it should be 
inserted. It differs clearly, however, by the much larger entire first glume and 
the minutely dentate upper glume and lower valve. 
92. P. Cienkowskii, Rupr. ex Aschers. in Schwein f. Beitr. FI. 
Aethiop. 300 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 742 (name only).. 
Nile Land. Cordofan, CienJcowsJci. 
93. P. crinitum, Hack, ex Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 744 
(name only). 
This, from the locality and number quoted, is Digitaria xanthotricha, Stapf 
(see p. 451 of this work). 
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