Eriochrysis .] clvii. gr amine as (Stapf). 93 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Country of the Ganguellas and Ambuellas, 
Gossweiler, 1959 ! 2384 ! 
Also in South Africa. 
2. E. brachypogon A Stapf. Perennial, csespitose, with, intra- 
vaginal innovations. Culms 15-30 in. high, slender, 2-4-noded, upper 
nodes exserted. Leaf-sheaths tight, firm, more or less woolly near 
the mouth, otherwise glabrous, shining, long-persistent, the upper 
bearded at the nodes ; ligules short, truncate, with long hairs ; 
blades narrow, linear, acute, tightly involute, rigid, up to 10 in. long, 
2 lin. wide if flattened out, glabrous excepting the base which is 
hairy on one or both sides, or appressedly hairy all along on the 
back. Panicle oblong or linear, dense, 3-6 in. long, fulvous or 
ferruginous ; rhachis slender, terete, shortly hairy or glabrescent, 
pubescent at the nodes ; racemes 10-16, solitary or the lowest 
paired, almost 1 in. long, 2-3 lin. wide, erect or slightly spreading ; 
joints rather stout, terete, 1J lin. long, ciliate with fulvous hairs 
up to 1 lin. long ; pedicels similar, 1 lin. long. Sessile spikelet 
lanceolate, straw-coloured, 2-2J lin. long, surrounded at the base 
by hairs up to half as long. Glumes subequal ; lower glume char- 
taceous, minutely 3-dentate, flat on the back, glabrous, somewhat 
shining, keels ciliate upwards, nerves 3-5, rarely 7, with obscure 
cross-veins visible only in transmitted light ; upper glume thin, 
acute, 3-nerved, ciliate along the keel and at the apex. Valve of 
lower floret almost as long as the upper glume, lanceolate, hyaline, 
nerveless, hairy ; of upper ovate, J lin. long, hyaline, nerveless, 
ciliate. Anthers f lin. long. Styles and fulvous stigmas each 
\ lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet 9, similar to the sessile but smaller, 
1J lin. long, glumes with fewer nerves and longer hairs. Anthers 0 
or very much reduced. — Saccharum brachypogon, Stapf in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France, lv. (1908) Mem. viii 3 * * 6 . 97. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Nupe, savannas, Barter, 1351 ! French 
Sudan : Tabacaroni, south-west of the Siguiri River, in marshy places, Chevalier, 
716! 
North Central. Ndouka district and Konti : village of Tele, Chevalier, 8251 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo, Butaye (1900), 1815 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Mashonaland : Charter District, Mundy ! / 
3. E. pallida, Munro in Harv. Gen. S. Afr. PI. ed. ii. 440. Peren- 
nial, csespitose, with intravaginal innovations. Culms 2 ft. long, 
3-noded, lower leaves crowded, upper internodes long-exserted. 
Leaf-sheaths rather lax, scantily hairy or bearded (tropical speci- 
mens) at the nodes, otherwise glabrous, or more or less hairy in the 
upper part, the lowest shining as if lacquered ; ligules short, with 
hairs from the base behind ; blades narrow, linear, acute, flat, 4-5 in. 
long by 2 lin. (or by less than 1 lin. in the more or less convolute 
innovation leaves), firm, puberulous to villous on both sides, margin 
smooth. Panicle oblong, 4-5 in. long, densely fulvous or ferruginous. 
