Eulalia.'] clvii. gramine^e (Stapf). 101 
tinctly kneed at the lower third. Valvule 0. Anthers 1J lin. long. 
Stigmas 1J lin. 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : in swamps near Tabora, SpeJce 
& Grant ! 
5. E. geniculata, Stapf. Perennial. Culms up to over 2 ft. high, 
ascending from a geniculate base, up to 8- or more-noded, glabrous 
except near the inflorescence, smooth, the upper internodes exserted. 
Leaf-sheaths tight, striate, smooth, glabrous, more or less tinged 
with purple, at the nodes deep purple ; ligules membranous, truncate, 
J lin. long, ciliolate ; blades linear, tapering to an acute point, flat, 
quite glabrous and smooth. Panicles of about 2-4 (usually 3) 
fulvous racemes on a short pubescent common axis, the lowest 
internode about 3 lin. long ; racemes 2-2J in. long, somewhat 
flexuous, the lowest shortly peduncled ; joints very slender, up 
to 1J lin. long, with oblique tips, densely fulvously hairy all over 
on the back and sides, glabrous on the face, hairs J lin. long ; 
pedicels similar, of -equal length or slightly shorter. Spikelets 
linear-oblong, truncate, fulvous, 2 lin. long, callus-hairs merged in 
the general tomentum. Glumes equal ; upper rigidly membranous, 
truncate, densely hairy all over ; lower with the margins narrowly 
inflexed, obtusely 2-keeled, with a few very faint intracarinal nerves 
and one extracarinal on each side ; upper glume very similar to 
the lower but slightly broader above, 3-nerved. Lower floret 
reduced to a very minute scale-like hyaline valve. Valve of upper 
floret oblanceolate, shortly 2-toothed, hyaline below, almost 1 lin. 
long, 3-nerved, ciliate from the teeth ; awn a fine bristle, 3J-4 lin. 
long, twisted, indistinctly kneed near the middle. Valvule 0. 
Anthers 1J lin. long. Stigmas over 1 lin. long. 
South Central. Belgian Congo : Katanga ; Chisangwe, Horrible, 42 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia: Salisbury, Mrs. Craster, 18! Rogers, 4088! 
Bulawayo, 4500 ft., Eyles, 1137 ! 
27. H0M0ZEUG0S, Stapf in Hook. Ic. PL t. 3033. 
Spikelets homomorphous, subcylindric, awned, 2-nate on the slender 
more or less fragile rhachis of fascicled or solitary racemes, one 
sessile, the other pedicelled, sessile spikelet falling together with 
the adjacent joint and pedicel, pedicelled deciduous by itself. Florets 
2 ; lower reduced to an empty valve, upper $ . Glumes narrow, 
subequal, margins involute or in the lower spikelets inflexed and 
keeled from the middle upwards, tips membranous, base decurrent 
on the joints and pedicels forming a densely bearded pointed callus, 
the lower 7-8-, the upper 3-nerved. Valve of lower floret hyaline ; 
of upper floret hyaline below, coriaceous above, minutely 2-lobed 
