328 
cl vii. gramineas (Stapf). [ Hyparrhenia . 
125; and l.c. 646 (partly) ; and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 
11 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 717 (partly) ; K. Schum. 
in Engl. PH. Ost-Afr. C. 99 ; Pilger in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped. 
174, 472 : and in Mildbr. Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsche Zentr.-Afr. Exped. 
ii. 44 ? Cymbopogon Ruprechti, Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 
ii. 160 ; and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., xl. 227. 
Upper Guinea. Ivory Coast : Adioukrou Country ; Dabou, Chevalier, 
17150 ! Dahomey : Zumbodje, Newton. Southern Nigeria : Lagos, Macgregor, 
320 ! Awovo, Dawodu, 52 ! Quorra, Vogel, 102 ! Barter, 102 ! Northern 
Nigeria : Jeba, Barter, 281 ! Lokoja; the prevalent grass, Richardson ! Kata- 
gum District, Dalziel, 265 ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Massenia, Chevalier, 9631 ! 
Nile Land. Soudan : Shambe, Broun, 943 ! Uganda : Madi, Speke & 
Grant ! Namayenza, 4000 ft., Bummer, 3081! Nandi Country; Sibu, 
James ! and without precise locality, Scott Elliot ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Loango; Chinchoxo, forming savanas, Soyaux, 11 ! 
Portuguese Congo : Cabinda, Gossweiler, 6443 ! Belgian Congo : Banana Dis- 
trict; Moanda, Vanderyst, partly ! Stanley Pool District ; Kisantu, Gillet, 672 ! 
Kimayala, Van Houtte ! Kunzulu, Vanderyst, 5205 ! Wombali, Vanderyst, 
4249! Kwango District; Baya, Vanderyst, 2620 ! Lutschima, Vanderyst, 2860 ! 
and without precise locality, Butaye, 2227 ! Angola : Pungo Andongo ; Ca- 
lunda, Welwitsch, 2712; Malange District, Gossweiler, 900! Benguella ; 
gregarious along the Tiengo stream, Kuito River, Gossweiler, 2761 ! 3660 ! 
between the Kutue and Sobi streams, Kuito River, Baum, 777 ! Huilla ; 
in wooded meadows near Monino, Welwitsch, 7523 ! 
South Central. Kalahari : Gudon, Schinz, 655 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Tanga, Holst, 2099 ! Portu- 
guese East Africa : banks of the River Luabo, Kirk, 33 ! Shupanga, Kirk ! 
Nyasaland : Tanganyika Plateau at Port Hill, 3500-4000 ft., Whyte ! Rhodesia : 
Salisbury District, Mundy ! Matabeleland, Jeffries, 4, 22. Gazaland : North 
Melsetter, 4000-5000 ft., Swynnerton, 1605! 1686! Nyahodi River, 4000 ft., 
Swynnerton, 1659 A ! Upper Buzi River, 3000-3500 ft., Swynnerton, 991 ! 
Used for thatching in N. Nigeria. 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, and tropical America. 
20. H. macrolepis^$£np/. Annual, 5-8 ft. high. Culms rather 
slender, simple below for about 6 very long internodes, then passing 
into the panicle. Leaf-sheaths tight or the lower somewhat loose, 
generally shorter than the internodes, glabrous and smooth, produced 
at the mouth into triangular-ovate auricles ; ligules firmly scarious, 
broadly ovate, rounded, glabrous, about 2 lin. long, laterally adnate 
to the auricles of the sheath ; blades linear from a slightly narrowed 
base, tapering to a long fine point, up to 1 ft. by lj to almost 3 lin., 
somewhat rigid, with the margins frequently recurved, dull green, 
glabrous, smooth on both faces except the scabrid tips and margins ; 
midrib slender or somewhat stout downwards, whitish on the upper 
side. Spatheate panicle erect, narrow, of up to 6 more or less 
distant 3-6-rayed tiers ; rays mostly simple or one or the other of 
the lowest tiers compound, up to 3-noded and up to over J ft. long ; 
rays filiform, of the lowest tiers up to 3 in., of the upper very much 
shorter ; lowest subtending leaves like the preceding ones, but with 
distinctly inflated sheaths, the following spathaceous, the upper 
with upwards decreasing very narrow blades. Spatheoles lanceolate, 
