788 
CL VII. GBAMINEiE (Stapf). 
[. Panicum » 
spreading, 1J in. by 3J lin., flat, with erect stout hairs on both sides 
or almost glabrous below, margins markedly cartilaginous and 
minutely spinulose-serrulate, often crisped on one side, midrib 
obscure. Panicle long-exserted , pyramidal, subsecund, remotely and 
irregularly divided to the third degree, about 2 ft. long ; common axis 
slender, angular, glabrous, scabrid, upwards wavy ; branches sub- 
erect or somewhat spreading, the lowest a quarter the length of the 
panicle, compressed, very scabrid ; pedicels minute, sparingly 
strigose. Spikelets secund, mostly paired or the uppermost solitary, 
elliptic in outline, acute, 1 lin. by § lin. , green to black- violet, shortly 
hairy, obscurely veined. Lower glume one-third the length of the 
spikelet, narrowly rotund ate, 3-nerved ; upper glume distinctly 
shorter than the lower floret (about as long as the upper), elliptic, 
obtuse, 5-nerved. Lower floret barren : valve similar to the upper 
glume ; valvule acute, obscurely and loosely hairy. Upper floret 
narrowly elliptic, subacute, very minutely mucronate with the mucro 
pilosulous, straw-coloured : valve and valvule coriaceous, glossy, the 
latter distinctly 2-carinate. 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro, VolJcens. 
This is referred to § Brachiaria by the author, but I am unable to suggest its 
distinct affinity either within that genus or in Urochloa to which the mucronate 
fertile floret points. Nor can it well be a Panicum in the sense understood 
here. 
103. P. sparsum, Schumach. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. Guin . 
PI. 64. Culms erect, terete, glabrous. Leaf-sheaths tight, striate, 
long-bearded at the mouth ; blades up to over 1 ft. long, 14 in. broad, 
glabrous, rough. Panicle virgate, almost 1 ft. long ; branches very, 
slender, straight, erect ; branchlets capillary, angular, glabrous ; 
pedicels unequal in pairs or fascicles of 3-4. Spikelets oblong, 
smooth, “ 2-flowered.” Upper floret coriaceous, rugulose. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast (?), Thonning. 
Probably P. maximum , Jacq. 
104. P. Stuhlmannii, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 102. 
Culms up to 2 ft. high, ascending from a geniculate branched base. 
Leaf-sheaths soft, villous ; blades up to If in. long, pubescent, 
margins often crisped. Panicle 3-34 in. long, with spreading sub- 
flexuous branches ; pedicels long, hairy. Spikelets frequently 
congested, hardly 1 lin. long. Glumes hairy ; lower hardly one- 
quarter the length of the spikelet. Lower floret : valve with a 
violet margin. Upper floret : valve rugulose. 
Mozambique Distr. Lake region : Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 4092. 
105. P. tristachyoides, Trin. Gram. Suppl. in Mem. Acad Sc.. 
Peter sb. time ser. iv. ii. 106 ; Durand & Schinz , Consp. FI. Afr. v. 766* 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone (collector not stated). 
Evidently not a Panicum. 
