JPanicum .] clvii. gramine^j (Stapf). 
737 
98. P. nyanzense, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 333. Culms 
erect, simple, slender, over 1 ft. high. Leaves conspicuously dis- 
tichous ; sheaths broad, 1J-2 in. long, longer than the nodes and 
imbricate, usually quite glabrous, very rarely softly ciliate ; ligule 
short, rounded, glabrous ; blades triangular-lanceolate from a 
narrowed base, tightly folded with involute margins, yellowish. 
Panicles open ; common axis angular, quite glabrous, smooth. 
Spikelets 1 J lin. long. Lower glume ovate, acute, over one-third the 
length of the upper, which is yellowish, frequently with a violet 
margin. Lower floret : valve similar to the upper glume and 
subequal in length. Upper floret slightly shorter than the lower, 
polished. 
Mozambique Distr. Lake region : . Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3302. 
The leaf -blades are stated to be “ elongate-triangular-lanceolate ” and 
relatively short ( pro rata brevi), but the actual dimensions given are l§-2 in. 
(6-8 cm.), rarely 4 in. (10 cm.) by hardly more than 1^ lin. I cannot suggest any 
affinity for this plant. 
99. P. Pauli-Ducis, Hochst. ex Schweinf Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 301 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 768 (name only). 
Nile Land. Sennar : Duke Paul of Wurtemberg. 
100. P. praflongum, Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 73. Culms erect, 
reed-like, up to over 3 ft. high, quite glabrous and glaucous. Leaf- 
sheaths hairy at the nodes and the mouth ; blades linear, acuminate, 
1J-2 ft. by 1-2 lin., flat below, convolute upwards. Panicle erect, 
contracted, almost 1 ft. long, its base enclosed in the uppermost 
sheath ; lower branches approximate, upper solitary, undivided at 
the base, long, flexuous ; pedicels long or short. Spikelets ovate in 
outline, 1 lin. long, quite glabrous. Lower glume ovate, subacute, 
nerveless, upper equalling the barren lower floret and like this 
obscurely nerved. Upper floret delicately transversely rugose. — 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. PL Afr. v. 759. 
Upper Guinea. “ Guinea,” Herb. Lenormand. 
101. P. pseudoagrostis, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 71 ; Durand & 
.Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 760. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal, Leprieur. 
This cannot be a Panicum if the description is correct. It is said to have very 
102. P. scalare, Mez in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiv. 138 ; not of Schweinf. 
Perennial, up to 1L ft. high. Culms decumbent, very slender, 
rooting from the nodes. Leaf-sheaths obtusely keeled upwards, 
with long partly tubercle-based hairs, bearded at the nodes ; ligule 
reduced to a transverse rim. ; blades lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate 
from a rounded but not amplexicaul base, shortly acute or subacute, 
EL. TROP. AFR. VOL. IX. — PT. i. 3 B 
