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CLV 1 I. GRAMINE^ (Stapf). 
[ Mcmisuris . 
and tubercled, with faint longitudinal often interrupted ribs, nerves 
numerous, faintly visible from within ; upper glume broad ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, lining and adhering below to the cavity of the joint, 
thickened at the tips, hyaline towards the base, 3-nerved. Lower 
floret shorter than the glumes ; valve broadly ovate-obtuse. Upper 
floret \ lin. long : valve ovate-obtuse, like the similar valvule 
nerveless. Anthers \ lin. long. Stigmas up to J lin. long. Grain 
under \ lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet as long as the sessile or 
slightly longer, ovate, herbaceous, green or purplish. Glumes 
equal ; lower slightly asymmetrical, one keel widened, scaberu- 
lous, nerves 5-7, very marked, green ; upper boat-shaped, promi- 
nently keeled, keel scaberulous, nerves 5-7. Lower floret barren : 
valve ovate-lanceolate, acute, hyaline, 2-nerved. Upper floret : 
valve similar to that of the lower, but shorter and 1-nerved, or 
like the valvule nerveless, frequently the florets reduced or sup- 
pressed. — Gsertn. Fruct. ii. t. 175 ; Beauv. Agrost. t. xxi. fig. 10 ; 
Roxb. PI. Corom. t. 118 ; Mart. & Eichl. FI. Bras. ii. 2, t. 46 ; Hack, 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 314 ; Klatt in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. 
ix. (1891) 122; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 97 ; Hook. f. 
FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 159 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 700 ; 
Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 141 : Durand & Schinz, fitud. FI. 
Congo, i. 313 ; De Wild. & Durand in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. 
i. 60, and Contrib. FI. Congo, ii. 71 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. 
.Congo, 622 ; Pilger in Engl. Pflangenuw., Afr. ii. 192, fig. 135. M. 
'polystachya , Beauv. FI. Owar. et Ben. t. 14. Cenchrus granulans , 
Linn. Mant. ii. App. 575. Hackelochloa granular is, 0. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. PI. ii. 776 ; Franch. Contr. FI. Congo Franc. 11. Rytilix granu- 
lans, Skeels in U.S. Dept. Ag. Bur. PI. Industr. Bull. 282, (1913) 20. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : between Nyamino and Koulikoro, Chevalier, 
2280 ! Timbo, Pob&guin, 1770 ! Gold Coast : Cape Coast Castle, Ogilvie ! Togo : 
Lome, Warnecke, 172 ! Northern Nigeria : Labba Road, Parsons, 22 ! Nupe, 
Barter ! Yola, Dalziel, 273 ! Adamawa, Macleod ! Bogolo, on the River Benue, 
Macleod ! Southern Nigeria : Lagos ; Dawodu, 33 ! 229 ! Ogurude, Holland, 
272 ! Pandiaki, Ansell ! Quorra, Vogel ! Cameroons : Sanaga, Zenker, 1469 ! 
North Central. French Congo : Upper Ubangi River ; Fort Possel, Cheva- 
lier, 10549 ! 
Nile Land. Gallabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 1109! 1110! Abyssinia: 
Hamedo plain, Schimper, 1012 ! Gafta, Schimper, 1198 ! Jur : Ghattas Seriba, 
Schweinfurth, 2313 ! Uganda : Unyoro, Speke & Grant ! British East Africa : 
Mombasa, Hildebrandt, 2043 ! and without precise locality, Powell, 146 ! 
Lower Guinea. French Gaboon : plains of Lope, Ogowe River, Thollon, 792 ! 
Belgian Congo : Bingila, Dupuis ; Lukungo, Hens, 219 ! Dolo, Laurent, Van- 
deryst, 665 ! Kisantu, Gillet, 373. Angola : Golungo Alto ; Banza de Sova 
Montalegre, Welwitsch, 2759 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Zanzibar, Stuhlmann, Hildebrandt, 1077 ! German East 
Africa : Amboni, Holst, 2805a ! Pangani, Stuhlmann ; Kokotoni, Stuhlmann. 
Portuguese East Africa : East coast of Lake Nyasa, J ohnson ! Quilimane, 
Stuhlmann. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Manganja Hills, Kirk ! 
W aller ! between Kondowe and Kasonga, 2000-6000 ft. Whyte ! Rhodesia ; 
North Mazoe district, Mundy ! 
Throughout the tropics. 
