S acciole f is. ~\ clvii. graminb^e (Stapf). 761 
lower broad-ovate, obtuse to acute, half or almost half the length of 
the spikelet ; upper ovate to ovate-oblong in dorsal view, subacute to 
obtuse, 7-9-nerved. Lower floret $ : valve like the upper glume 
and of the same length, but less concave ; valvule about three- 
quarters the length of the valve ; anthers J-f lin. long. Upper floret 
ovate-oblong, acute, 4 lin. long, whitish or yellowish. — Panicum 
tyfhurum, Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 414. P. indicum, Hack, in 
Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. 135 ; not of Linn. 
Nile Land. Jur : Agada, Schweinfurth, 2591 ! 
Lower Guinea. Huilla : Humpata ; by the Nene river, Newton ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Mount Sochi, 3000 ft., Kirk ! Mount 
Mlanje, Adamson, 407 ! Namasi, Cameron, 18 ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 
73 ! 
14. S. incurva, Staff. Perennial, up to over 1 ft. high. Culms 
ascending in wide curves, slender, filiform, glabrous and smooth, 
4-6-noded, remotely branched with the branches ascending in 
similar curves to the level of the main culm. Leaf-sheaths terete, 
rather tight, the lower loosened and slipping off or embracing the 
branch, about 3 in. long, quite glabrous or minutely ciliate at the 
mouth, smooth ; ligules thinly membranous, very short, truncate ; 
blades narrowly linear from an equally wide base, flat or (the upper) 
filiform-convolute, tapering to a blunt callous point, 3-6 in. by 14 lin. 
or if convolute up to 4 lin. in diam., the lower soon flaccid, upper 
flexuous, quite glabrous and loosely hairy, smooth, midrib and 
lateral nerves very fine. False spikes on long-exserted peduncles, 
f-lj in. by 24-3 lin., dense, very dark greyish-purple; axis very 
slender ; pedicels very short, with a few minute hairs below the 
discoid tips. Spikelets ovate-oblong in outline, acute to sub- 
acuminate, symmetrical, 1J lin. by § lin., sparingly hairy, hairs white. 
Glumes rigidly but thinly membranous, nerves slender, prominent ; 
lower ovate, acute or subobtuse, half to two-thirds the length of the 
spikelet, 5-nerved ; upper corresponding in outline and size to the 
spikelet (seen in dorsal view), 9-nerved, tips hyaline. Lower 
floret : valve like the upper glume ; valvule slightly shorter, 
linear, acute, with broad overlapping flaps ; anthers § lin. long. 
Upper floret elliptic-oblong, obtuse, £ lin. by f lin., pale, polished. 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Ukinga ; Nadcheni, in mountain 
meadows by the water, 6500 ft., Stolz, 2484 ! 
15. S. transbarbata, Staff. Perennial from a slender oblique 
rhizome, about 1 ft. high. Culms in scanty fascicles, erect, very 
slender, terete, about 2-noded, with the uppermost node low down, 
simple or branched from the lower node, with the branches sometimes 
in tiers, smooth and glabrous. Leaf-sheaths tight, the lower rather 
narrow, not or very obscurely keeled, over 1 in. long, bladeless or 
early throwing off the short blade, the following more herbaceous, 
longer, the uppermost up to 4 in. long, sparingly hairy to glabrous. 
