Sacciolepis.] clvii. gramine^: (Stapf). 755 
oblique when gaping, up to 1 lin. long, pale greyish-green to straw- 
coloured, loosely puberulous with the hairs tubercle-based. Glumes 
thinly membranous, ovate ; lower subobtuse, over half to two-thirds 
the length of the glume, 5-nerved ; upper acute, 7-nerved with the 
nerves fine, but ultimately prominent. Lower floret <£ : valve very 
similar to the upper glume, but less puberulous ; valvule three- 
quarters the length of the valve, narrow. Upper floret ovate, 
subobtuse, . ■§-§ lin. long, whitish, polished; anthers lin. long. — 
Panicum Cheraiieri, Stapf in Cheval. Sudania, 10, 106, 124 (name 
only). 
Upper Guinea. French Sudan : Upper Niger ; between Sanguiana and 
Moussaia, Chevalier , 466 ! 
North Central. Upper Shari : Senussi Countri, Ndelle, Chevalier , 6820 I 
Kounde, Chevalier , 7714 ! 
6. S. brevifolia, Stapf. Perennial, densely tufted. Culms very 
slender, rising 6-9 in. from the short dense basal tufts of leaves, 
1-2-noded with the upper node 2-3 in. above the base, simple, 
glabrous and smooth. Leaf-sheaths somewhat firm, the basal more 
or less compressed and keeled, imbricate, 4-1 in. long, obscurely 
auricled, those of the culm somewhat tighter and very narrow with a 
more pronounced shoulder or auricle, the uppermost up to 24 in. 
long, all loosely striate, smooth and quite glabrous except at the 
ciliate mouth and (sometimes) upper margins ; ligules very short, 
hyaline, ciliolate ; blades subsetaceous with a callous point, convolute- 
plicate, up to over 2 in. long, and up to 4 lin. across, those of the upper- 
most culm-leaf very much shorter, plump, green, sulcate on the back, 
glabrous and smooth. False spikes erect on a long-exserted peduncle, 
cylindric, 1J in. by li-lf lin., dense; pedicels very short, with a 
few minute hairs, tips minutely discoid. Spikelets ovate in outline, 
broadly rounded on the back, symmetrical or suboblique, acute, 
turgid, at maturity more or less gaping, up to § lin. by § lin., glabrous 
or with a few minute hairs or loosely pubescent, olive-green, richly 
tinged upwards with dark lurid purple. Glumes thin, finely nerved ; 
lower broad-ovate, obtuse to subobtuse, about half the length of the 
spikelet or more, 5-nerved with the nerves anastomosing ; upper 
obliquely oblong in profile, acute or subacute, 5- or sub-7-nerved. 
Lower floret $ : valve very similar to the upper glume and of the 
same length, 7-nerved; valvule somewhat shorter, oblong; anthers- 
J lin. long. Upper floret elliptic-oblong, subacute, J lin. by J lin., 
white, polished. 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Benguella ; country of the Ganguellas and 
Ambuellas, Gossweiler, 2057 ! - 
7. S. huillensis^ Stapf. Annual, 3 to over 12 in. high. Culms 
very slender, glabrous and smooth, simple from the uppermost node 
but usually branched from the two preceding nodes, in dwarf speci- 
mens the lower internodes arrested, hence the plants scantily tufted 
