203 
Schizachyrium.] clvii. gbamine/E (Stapf). 
column brown, bristly, yellowish. Valvule 0. Stamens 3 ; anthers 
oblong, | lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet neuter, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, up to 2 lin. long, pale brown, glabrous. Lower glume termi- 
nating with a fine bristle up to 1J lin. long, intracarinal nerves 
about 5 ; upper oblong, acute, hyaline, 3-nerved, ciliolate. Florets 
represented by a solitary hyaline oblong valve, about 1 lin. 
long. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Futa J allon ; between Soumbalako and 
Boulivel, Chevalier , 18664 ! 
(£y £WO 
^ 16 S. pulchellum A $£<xp/. Perennial. Culms erect, up to over 
2 ft. high, many-noded, simple below the foliose panicle, terete, 
smooth and glabrous, the internodes enclosed in the sheath. Leaf- 
sheaths terete, tight, glabrous, smooth, often glaucescent, the upper- 
most spathe-like ; ligules membranous, very short ; blades linear, 
shortly acute or subacute, more or less constricted at the base, 
1 J-2 in. long, f-1 J lin. wide, flat or folded, glabrous and quite smooth, 
also along the cartilaginous margins, somewhat fleshy, nerves faint ; 
spathes rather crowded on short peduncles, narrowly lanceolate, 
acute, with or without rudimentary subulate blades, reddish or 
purplish and more or less glaucous. Racemes peduncled, more or 
less enclosed in the spathe or ultimately almost entirely exserted, 
about 1J in. long, 5-6-jointed ; joints clavate, gradually widening 
upwards, 3-4 lin. long, with a very short membranous denticulate 
appendage, covered with white spreading hairs, lj-lf lin. long, all 
over except on the inner face ; pedicels similar but more slender 
and as long as or slightly longer than the joints, with an oblique 
and much produced entire appendage on the inner side. Sessile 
spikelets lanceolate, acute, 3-3J lin. long, glabrous, reddish or 
purplish and glaucous. Glumes equal ; lower chartaceous, flat on 
the back, acutely 2-dentate, the teeth often very close, glabrous, 
intracarinal nerves conspicuous, 5, slender, raised ; upper glume 
similar to the lower, thinner, 3-nerved, slightly keeled above, very 
smooth. Lower floret reduced to a linear-oblong minutely truncate 
or subacute 2-nerved ciliolate valve. Upper floret § : valve 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, entire, delicate, produced into a bristle- 
like awn, up to 2J lin. long, 3-nerved ; valvule hyaline, oblong, 
truncate, nerveless, slightly exceeding the ovary. Anthers almost 
2 lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet similar to the sessile, but slightly 
smaller and $ , with the upper floret awnless.- — A ndroyo qon pul- 
chellus, D. Don in Hook. Niger FI. 571 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. vi. 366 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 720. A. 
guineensis , Hochreut. in Ann. Jard. Genev. ii. (1898), 99. 
Upper Guinea. Gambia, Don ! Senegambia : Niayes, Chevalier > 2366 
Southern Nigeria : Oware, Beauvois ! Cameroons, Ledermann ! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo, Smith ! 
