Sorghum. 1 clvii. gramineje (Stapf). 137 
neuter, linear-lanceolate, 2 lin. long, pubescent, lower glume 11-, 
upper 10-nerved. — Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1036 ; Beichb. Ic. El. 
Germ. 1815, t. 80, fig. 466. Holcus Sorghum , Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 
1047, partly ; Mant. ii. 500. H. Dora, Mieg in Act. Helv. viii. 
(1777) 125, t. 4, fig. 3. H. cernuus, Ard. in Saggi sc. e lett. ac. 
Padova, i. 128, t. iib figs. 1, 2; Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 930. H. com- 
pactus, Lam. Encycl. iii. 140. Andropogon compactus, Brot. El. 
Lus. i. 88. A. cernuus, Boxb. FI. Ind. ed. Carey, i. 273 ; Kunth, 
Enum. i. 501. A. Sorghum, var. cernuus , Koern. in Koern. & Wern. 
Handb. Getreideb. i. 314. A. Sorghum, subsp. sativus, var. cernuus, 
Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 515 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. El. 
Afr. v. 724. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia (acc. to Koernicke, l.c.). Senegal: Futa (ace. to 
Dumas in Agric. Prat. Pays Chauds, v. 459). French Guinea (acc. to Dumas, 
l.c.). Northern Nigeria: Bornu, Barth (Trav., ii. 241), and without precise 
locality, Oudney, 6 ! North Cameroons : Musgu country (acc. to Vogel ; see 
Wagner, Ed. Vogel, 221 and to Barth, l.c. iii. map facing 118). 
North Central. Bagirmi : Logon District (Barth, l.c. iii. 284). 
Vernacular names: “ Manio ” (Gambia); “ Amadi-boubou” (Segu) ; 
“ Masakuwa, Masakwa, Mazgua ” (Bornu and Bagirmi). 
This is the common durra of North Africa and the Orient to Turkestan, also 
grown to a considerable extent in Northern India as far as Manipur. It is the 
“ durra eweige ” of Egypt and probably also covers other forms of the summer 
“ durra, durra sefi ,” of that country. 
24. S. subglabrescens, Schiveinf. & Aschers. in Schweinf. Beitr . FI. 
Aeihiop. 302, 306. Annual. Culms (only a meagre specimen seen) 
slender, almost simple, 2J ft. high, about 8-noded, internodes 
(except the uppermost) shorter than the sheaths. Leaf-sheaths 
finely pubescent at the nodes ; ligules very short, shortly ciliate 
from the back ; blades linear from a broad (middle and upper 
leaves) or slightly narrowed (lower leaves) base, long-attenuated 
upwards, up to 8 in. by 8 lin., green, flushed with red, quite glabrous. 
Panicle oblong, erect, 3J in. by almost 1 in., contracted, moderately 
dense ; branches scattered, erect, the longest not much over 1 in. 
long and undivided for about J in. from the base, almost simple, 
scabrid to spinulously ciliate, sparingly hairy at the base. Bacemes 
tough, up to 4-noded and 4 or 5 lin. long, dense ; joints rather 
stout, up to 1 lin. long, shortly whitish-ciliate ; pedicels very similar, 
up to J lin. long. Sessile spikelet oblong, acute in flower, broad-ovoid 
or ellipsoid in fruit, 3 lin. by 1| lin., at length variegated, awned ; 
callus-beard scanty, 4 lin. long. Glumes equal, gaping when mature, 
more or less coriaceous and glossy in the lower third, spongy-sub- 
coriaceous and constricted about the middle, then papery, more or 
less whitish-strigillose, at length sometimes almost glabrous ; lower 
finely 13-nerved, nerves showing above the coriaceous base, keels 
rather sharp, scabrid, running into minute teeth, between which 
the minute hyaline tip protrudes, the coriaceous part rich maroon 
to almost black, followed by a pale transverse zone, then violet or 
