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CLVII. GRAMINEJ2 (Stapf). 
[Eulalia. 
sometimes pedancled or like tke following sessile to subsessile and 
solitary, much shorter than the terminal which may be up to 3 in. 
long ; joints slender, 2J-3 lin. long, smooth, ciliate with white hairs 
about 1 lin. long ; pedicels similar, shorter. Spikelets lanceolate- 
oblong, olive-brown to fuscous, 3-3J lin. long, with short hairs from 
the callus. Glumes equal ; lower rather firm, chart aceous, minutely 
truncate and obscurely 2-toothed, more or less flat on the back, 
somewhat shining and loosely hairy, margins narrowly indexed, 
intracarinal nerves 5-7, with transverse veins, extracarinal usually 
1 on each side ; upper narrowly lanceolate-oblong, subacute or 
minutely truncate, 5-nerved, with faint transverse nerves, ciliate, 
very sparingly hairy. Valve of lower floret oblong, obtuse or 
minutely 2-dentate, hyaline, 2-nerved, ciliolate ; of upper floret 
lanceolate, 2-lobed to one-third, with the lobes narrow and acute, 
hyaline, 3-nerved at the base, ciliolate, awned ; awn up to 6 lin. 
long, kneed at the middle, twisted below. Valvule 0. Anthers 
2 lin. long. Styles J lin. long ; - stigmas 1 lin. long, dark purple. 
— Pilger in Engl. Jahrb. xxxix. 597 (1907). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Arussi; Druka Gilo, Drake- Brockman, 153 ! British 
East Africa : Massai Island, Forestry Dept. Nairobi, 19 ! Mau Plateau, 7500- 
10,000 ft., Linton, 177 ! 
4. E. ferruginea, Stapf Perennial. Culms 2-3 ft. high, densely 
set on a short rhizome, slender, erect, about 3-noded, the uppermost 
internode long-exserted, pubescent below the inflorescence, innova- 
tion-buds covered with firm striate cataphylls which are appressedly 
hirsute or ultimately glabrescent. Leaf-sheaths tight, striate, 
glabrous, membranous, very shortly ciliolate ; ligules short, mem- 
branous, truncate, ciliolate ; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 
3-5 in. long, up to 3 lin. broad, quite flat, glabrous, smooth, about 
5 lateral nerves on each side of the slender midrib. Panicle narrow, 
about 3J in. long, of about 4 racemes, rusty-brown, on a short 
pubescent common axis, the lowest internode about 5 lin. long ; 
lateral racemes up to 2 in. long, erect, the lowest shortly peduncled, 
terminal raceme much longer ; joints very slender, not much over 
1 lin. long, smooth, shortly ciliate with brownish hairs ; pedicels 
similar and about as long as the joints. Spikelets linear, oblong, 
obtuse, ferruginous, 2 lin. long, surrounded from the callus by 
hairs \ lin. long. Glumes equal, rigidly membranous ; lower trun- 
cate, almost flat on the back, hairy below the middle and along 
the keels, minutely pubescent at the tip, margins narrowly in- 
flexed, intracarinal nerves 2, very faint ; upper lanceolate-oblong, 
minutely truncate, obscurely 3-nerved, hairy above the middle. 
Lower floret suppressed. Valve of upper floret oblanceolate, 
cuneate, 2-toothed, slightly over J lin. long, hyaline below, 3-nerved, 
ciliate from the acute teeth ; awn fine, 6 lin. long, twisted, indis- 
