764 cl vn. gramineje (Stapf). [Sacciolepis. 
Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, acute, more or less oblique after flowering, 
slightly gaping with subparallel tips, 2 J lin. long, olive-green, smooth. 
Glumes membranous, prominently nerved ; lower broad- ovate, 
acute, 7-nerved; upper oblong, gently curved on the back, sub- 
acuminate, 9-nerved. Lower floret barren : valve very similar to 
the upper glume and of the same length, but with a straight back, 
9-nerved : valvule much shorter, linear, with narrow flaps. Upper 
floret oblong, acute, over 1 lin. by § lin., whitish, polished. — 
Panicum indicum, var. datum, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 174 ; 
not of Hook. f. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Stanley Pool Distr . ; Kitebe, Vanderyst, 
4116 ! and without precise locality, Vanderyst, 3692 (partly) ! Angola : Pungo 
Andongo ; damp wooded meadows between Cordo and Quisondo, W elwitsch , 
7411 ! and without precise locality, W elwitsch, 2844 ! 
/ itwdbhU) 
18. S. seslerioiaes A Stapf. Perennial, tufted from a slender wiry 
sometimes branched rhizome, up to over 1 ft. high, quite glabrous ; 
innovations extra vaginal. Culms very slender, terete, erect or 
shortly ascending, 2-5-noded, simple or with 1-2 short leafy branches, 
if more than 2-noded, lower 3-4 internodes very short or short, the 
uppermost more than half the length of the culm, very long-exserted. 
Leaf-sheaths unequal, the lower 3 or 4 very firm, bladeless or early 
throwing off the blades, reddish or brownish, increasing upwards, 
from a few lin. to 2 in., more or less opened out and prominently keeled, 
with rounded or truncate (lower) to subacute tips, or more or less 
herbaceous and slightly compressed and keeled upwards, upper terete 
and tight, with or without a minute truncate shoulder at the mouth, 
not auriculate, striate ; ligule a minute ciliolate rim ; blades linear 
from an equally wide base, tapering in the uppermost leaves to an 
acute slender point, 1J-6 in. by 1J-2 lin., somewhat plump, convolute 
in bud, then more or less flat, green, smooth except at the upper 
margins, midrib very slender, primary nerves 2-3 on each side, 
obscure. False spike f-lj in. by 3-4 lin., cylindric, compact; 
pedicels hardly over J lin. long. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate to 
ovate-oblong in outline, symmetrical or slightly oblique, not gaping, 
subterete, not quite 2 lin. long, over § lin. in diam., pale olive- 
green below, darker and tinged with brown or livid towards the 
tips, glabrous. Glumes stoutly nerved ; lower ovate, obtuse or 
subobtuse, one-third to almost half the length of the spikelet, 
5-nerved ; upper obliquely oblong in profile, obtuse, 7-nerved. 
Lower floret ; valve very similar to the upper glume and of the 
same length, 9-nerved ; valvule narrow, linear-oblong, three- 
quarters the length of the valve ; anthers over 1 lin. long. Upper 
floret narrowly oblong, subacute, 1J lin. by § lin., whitish, 
polished. — Panicum seslerioides, Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 174. 
South Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga, HombU, 19 ! 
19. S. catumbensis^ Stapf. Perennial, from a slender woody 
