747 
Cyrtococcum .] clvii. gramine^ (Stapf). 
loosely silkily hairy on the back, faintly 5-nerved. Lower floret : 
valve oblong (in profile), obtuse, very similar to the upper glume but 
with a straight back, 3- to sub-5-nerved ; valvule more or less reduced, 
very narrow, 3-nerved. Upper floret almost semi-obovate or 
semi-elliptic, apiculate at the tip, subacute at the base, up to over 
•J lin. long, narrowly boat-shaped, brown, minutely punctate all over ; 
valve and valvule papery, at length subcrustaceous, the former very 
obscurely 5-nerved with firm very narrow margins, the latter with a 
narrow oblong convex back, finely and transparently winged keels 
and thin flaps ; anthers b lin. long. Grain unknown . — Panicum 
setigemm , P. Beauv. FI. Owar. i. 82, t. 49, and Agrost. 171, t. x. fig. 3, 
and Expl. pi. 8 ; Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 280 ; not of Retz. P. chceto- 
phoron, Roem. & Schult. Syst. Veg. ii. 884 ; Ivunth, Enum. i. 113 ; 
TSTPan. Gen. 219, and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6me ser. iii. 307 ; 
Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 87 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
742 ; Stapf in Johnston, Liberia, ii. 667. P. patens, Rendle in Gat. 
Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 183 ; not of Linn. 
Upper Guinea. Liberia : within 20 miles of Kakatown, Whyte ! Gold 
Coast : Aburi Hills, Johnson, 286 ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos, MacGregor, 312 ! 
Benin, Beauvois ! Old Calabar, Robb ! Northern Nigeria : in damp places, 
Kabba Road, Parsons, 28 ! Cameroons : Batanga, Bates, 85 ! Spanish Guinea : 
Bebai, Tessmann, 636 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; in primitive woods on Monte de 
Queta, Welwitsch , 7210 ! mountains of Alto Queta, Welwitsch, 7263 ! 1086 
{carp, coll.) ! 
73. RAMPH0LEPIS, Stapf.] (See under 74. Sacciolepis.) 
74. SACCIOLEPIS, Nash in Britt. Man. Bot. 89. 
Spikelets oblong to ovate-oblong or elliptic or lanceolate, subterete 
or laterally compressed, frequently more or less oblique (seen in 
profile), usually somewhat turgid, falling entire from the short finely 
filiform pedicels of a spiciform very rarely open panicle ; lower 
floret or barren ; upper Glumes similar in structure but 
unequal, the lower being much shorter, softly or rigidly membranous 
with a narrow hyaline margin or hyaline tip, stiffened by the 
hardening of the prominent and often rib-like nerves, or more or less 
dissimilar owing to the reduction of the lower glume to a small 
hyaline scale, or its differentiation into a narrow hardened obscurely 
nerved back and broad hyaline margins ; upper glume with a curved 
or basally gibbous or saccate back, always much concave, mostly 
7- or 9-, rarely 5- or up to 13-nerved. Lower floret : valve very 
dissimilar to the upper glume and of the same or almost the same 
length, but with a straighter back (except 10, S. cymbiandra) ; valvule 
narrow, hyaline, finely 2-keeled, shorter than the valve, sometimes 
more reduced or quite rudimentary. Upper floret : valve oblong in 
outline (when seen from the back), very convex, chartaceous, 
