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purple, spinulously ciliolate, with white cilia towards the base and 
villous at the nodes, lowest branches divided almost from the base, 
following (longest) up to 4J in. long and undivided for 1-1 J in. from 
the base. Racemes tough, 3-noded, up to over J in. long, loose and 
loosely arranged ; joints slender, up to 2J lin. long, purple, densely 
or sparingly and shortly white-ciliate ; pedicels similar, |-1 lin. 
long. Sessile spikelet oblong in flower, ellipsoid and gaping in 
fruit, up to 3|- lin. long, glossy jet black, sometimes with red tips ; 
callus-beard dense below the lower, scanty below the upper glume 
or altogether scanty and ultimately disappearing. Glumes equal, 
crustaceous with brittle tips, opaque, margins membranous, reddish, 
at length flattened out ; lower about 13-nerved with few transverse 
veins, very finely 2-keeled below the tip, nerves very fine, faintly 
raised, whitish-strigillose or pubescent particularly above the 
middle, or almost glabrous ; upper about 11-nerved, faintly keeled 
all along, much narrower than the lower. Valves conspicuously 
ciliate ; lower oblong, 3 lin. long, tinged with red ; upper over 2 lin. 
long, ovate, entire, minutely mucronate. Anthers 2 lin. long. 
Grain obovoid-ellipsoid, much exposed between the widely gaping 
appressed glumes, 2J lin. by nearly 2 lin., more or less compressed, 
biconvex, milk-white ; embryo-mark as in S. papyrascens . Pedi- 
celled spikelet $ or neuter, more or less persistent, straw-colour 
more or less tinged with claret, lower glume about 13-, upper 11- 
nerved. 
Nileland. Sudan, Rubber Exhibition, London, 1914J! r 
Vernacular name “ Shelsheleih .” 
22. S. Ankolib^ Stapf. Culms stout. Leaf-sheaths short, long- 
ciliate from the back ; blades linear to linear-lanceolate from a 
broad base, over J ft. by almost 3 in., pubescent inside above the 
ligule and outside at the junction with the sheath. Panicle oblong, 
contracted, dense in flower, looser when mature, up to 1 ft. by 2J in. ; 
branches more or less whorled, erect, the lower somewhat stout 
below and branched almost from the base, following (longest) up to 
3 in. long and undivided for about 1 in., all very finely scabrid or 
smooth, minutely villous at the base, otherwise glabrous or almost 
so. Racemes tough, 1-3-noded, dense in flower, much crowded ; 
joints very slender, 1-1 J lin. long, more or less shortly whitish- 
ciliate ; pedicels very similar, J— | lin. long, tips not discoid. Sessile 
spikelet elliptic-oblong, acute or minutely acuminate, 3-3J lin. by 
1J lin., dark straw-colour in flower, closed when mature, turning dark 
maroon or blackish-red in the lower third or two-thirds when ripe ; 
callus-beard very scanty or none. Glumes equal, papery, glossy and 
somewhat firmer to subcoriaceous near the base or up to beyond 
the middle, finely and sparingly hairy here and there or almost 
quite glabrous ; lower up to 16-nerved, very finely or obscurely 
