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CLVII. GRAMINE^ (Stapf). 
[ Elyonurus . 
beak, penicillate-ciliate from the base upwards, with about 7-12 
tufts of hairs, each carried on a short laterally projecting process, 
back scaberulous or more or less (to densely) hairy, intracarinal 
nerves 7-9, very faint, beak about 3 lin. long, linear, cultriform, 
2-fid to J-J, rigidly ciliolate on both margins ; upper glume boat- 
shaped, ovate-lanceolate in outline, mucronate-acuminate, 2J lin. 
long, membranous, 3-nerved, glabrous. Lower floret : valve ovate- 
oblong, subobtuse, 1J-2 lin. long, hyaline, faintly 2-nerved ; valvule 
0. Upper floret : valve elliptic-oblong, obtuse, 1-1 J lin. long, 
faintly 3-nerved, glabrous. Anthers lin. long. Stigmas § lin. 
long. Grain lanceolate-oblong, dorsally much compressed, lj-lf 
lin. long, scutellum reaching to the middle, hilum punctiform, basal. 
Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, subulate, afterwards gaping, 4-5 lin. 
long. Glumes more or less unequal ; lower up to 5 lin. long, in- 
cluding the cultriform or subuliform ciliolate beak, which may be 
up to over 3 lin. long ; upper glume ovate-lanceolate, produced 
into a slender subuliform beak, including it 3-4 lin. long, 3-nerved. 
Florets 0. — Schweinf. FI. Soturba, in Yerh. Zool.-Bot. Gesellsch. Wien, 
xv. (1865), 556 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 343 ; Penzig inAtti 
Congr. Bot. Genoa (1893), 365 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me 
ser. ii. (1894) 10; A. Terracciano in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. (1894) 
94, incl. var. insularis and albifiorus ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. 
Afr. v. 702 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 161 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, vii. (1898) 58 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 137. 
E. Grisebachii, Schmidt, Beitr. z. FI. Capverd. 154. Ratzeburgia 
Schimper i, Steud. Nomencl. ed. ii. 439. Rottbcellia eleg antis sima, 
Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 365. Andropogon elegantis- 
simus, Steud. l.c. 364. A. Grisebachii , Steud. l.c. 365. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verde Islands : St. Vincent, Lowe ! Moseley ! Bolle ! Villa 
de Mindello ,Welwitsch, 2885 ! San Jago : Porto Praia, Lowe ! Wilkes Expedition ! 
Nile Land. Nubia : Soturba Mountains, Schweinfurth, 1569 ! Coast 
Region, Bent l Sudan: Sheikh Talha, Broun, 817! Gallabat : Matamma, 
Schweinfurth, 1565 ! 1566 ! Eritrea : Dalak Islands, Ehrenberg ! Gaaba, 
1300 ft., Schweinfurth, 1651 ! valley of Terha, near Saati, Schweinfurth, 286 ! 
Samhar, sides of torrent between the hills of Vierek and Monkullo, Penzig ; 
Bay of Hamfila, Terracciano. Abyssinia : Soea, 4000 ft., Schimper, 125 ! 
Begemeder ; Gunnokle, 4000 ft., Schimper, 699! banks of the Tacazze River, 
Schimper, 795 ! Gebel Ras Edinep, near Cape Elba, Schweinfurth, 1563 ! 
Somaliland : Malka Daka, Riva, 460 ; between Cajammo and Web Ruspoli, 
Riva, 1139. 
4. E. platypus, Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. 135. Perennial, 
csespitose, with the innovation shoots much compressed. Culms 
erect, about 4-noded, terete, smooth, glabrous, with the flowering 
branches from the nodes, nodes exserted. Leaf-sheaths glabrous, 
smooth, striate, those of the innovations short and very much com- 
pressed, of the culms more or less terete ; ligules very short, mem- 
branous, glabrous or ciliolate ; blades linear, with a short acute point, 
2-4 in. long, (according to Hackel up to 8 in.), up to 2 lin. wide, 
