Eulalia.] 
CLVII. GRAMINE^E (Stapf). 
99 
long, kneed at the middle and twisted below. — Pollinia sericea, 
Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, vii. 1898, 59, t. 3, fig. 1. 
Nile Land. Somaliland : between Giaribule and Herr, Riva, 109. 
2. E. villosa, Nees , FI. Afr. Austr. 91. Culms 1J to over 3 ft. long, 
3-4-noded, appressedly hairy or pubescent, at least below the usually 
bearded nodes, upper internodes long-exserted. Leaf-sheaths tight, 
terete, more or less hairy to almost villous, or the lowest glabrescent 
to glabrous ; ligules membranous, brown, up to 1 lin. long, glabrous, 
with long hairs behind ; blades linear-lanceolate and acute or linear 
and tapering towards both ends, 4-12 in. long, 3-6 lin. wide, more or 
less flat, suberect, glabrous or hairy to villous. Racemes 2-7, on a 
short silky common axis, suberect or nodding, 2-6 in. long ; joints 
and pedicels clavate, linear, stout, 1|-2| lin. long, with long whitish 
hairs, mainly along the margins and round the base. Spikelets 
crowded, fulvous, lanceolate, 2J-3J- lin. long. Glumes coriaceous, 
the lower minutely truncate, shallowly concave on the back (particu- 
larly those of the sessile spikelets), with broad indexed margins and 
ciliate keels and 2 intracarinal nerves ; upper glume lanceolate, boat- 
shaped, acute, shining, 3-nerved, ciliate, keeled. Valve of lower 
floret linear-oblong, up to 2J lin. long, membranous below, hyaline 
above, 2-nerved, margins indexed, ciliate ; of upper floret ovate to 
oblong, 2-fid with ciliate lobes, 1J lin. long ; awn 7-10 lin. long, 
kneed above or below the middle. Valvule oblong, obtuse, ciliate, 
up to 1 lin. long. Lodicules ciliate. Anthers 1J lin. long. Stigmas 
purplish, 1J lin. long. — Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 412. Pollinia 
villosa, Spreng. Syst. i. 288, not of Benth. ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. vi. 157 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 696 ; Rendle in 
Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 136 ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 325. Andro- 
pogon villosum, Thunb. Prodr. 20 ; FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 108 ; Kunth, 
Enum. i. 499. 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Benguella ; country of the Ganguellas and Ambu- 
ellas, Gossweiler ! Huilla ; Morro de Monimo, on rocks, Wdwitsch, 7485 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia : Umtali, Sawer, 29 ! 
Also in South Africa and Madagascar. 
Civw) 
3. E. polyneura A Stapf. Perennial, csespitose. Culms erect, few- 
noded, slender, 2-2 \ ft. high, glabrous, uppermost internodes long- 
exserted. Leaf -sheaths tight, striate, the lower more or less hirsute, 
at length glabrescent, the upper appressedly hairy or nearly glabrous 
except at the bearded nodes ; ligules membranous, very short ; 
blades linear, long-tapering to an acute point, flat when fresh, 
hirsute on the back, scabrid on the margins, of the innovations over 
1 ft. long, up to 2 lin. wide, of the stem much shorter and narrower. 
Panicle narrow, of 3-5 racemes, on a glabrous common axis, lowest 
internodes J in. long, rarely longer ; racemes erect, the lowest 
