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and Pearson, 7409 ! Considered a very good fodder and also useful 

 as a sand binder. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Widely distributed on the tropical and 

 subtropical coasts of both hemispheres and in India and Africa, also 

 in and along rivers ; probably originally a native of the Old World. 



7. P. Schinzii, Hack. F.T.A. 715. 



Ovamboland : Amtenya-Katiti, Barnard, 29 ! ; Olukonda, Ondonga, 

 Schinz, 641. 



Insufficiently known species 



1. Panicum ehromatostigma, Pilg. n. sp. in Engl. Jarhb. 33 (1902). 



Damaraland : Otjimbingue, /. Fischer, 75 (1897). 



2. P. melanospermum, Mez, n. sp. in Engl. Jahrb. 57, 185. Herero- 



land : Witzenhaus in Herb. Hamburg. 



3 P. erassipes, Mez, loc. cit. Grossarth, 4 ; Seiner, 126 (typus). 



4 P. kalaharense, Mez, loc. cit. Schultze, 318, 342p, 356c. 



5. P. arbusculum, Mez, loc. cit. Coll. ignot. Herb. Hamburg. 



6. P. radula, Mez, loc. cit. Morgenstern (typus), S.W.A. 



viii. Setaria, F.C. 419; F.T.A. 16. 



1. S. appendiculata, Stapf. F.C. 420. 



Great Namaqualand : Western, Central, and Eastern Karasberg, 

 among granite blocks on high plateau east of Wasserfall, Pearson, 

 8511!; sandy slopes S.W. of Krai Kluft, Pearson, 8512!; lower 

 foothills, Narudas Slid, Pearson, 8172 ! ; sandy plains in granite 

 torrent bed, Narudas Slid, Pearson, 8326 ! ; Garius, Dinter, 4244 ! 

 Damaraland : Onguati, chalk bush-steppe, Dinter, 2831 ! ; near Kiver 

 Onanis, Belck, 63c. 



2. S. aurea, A. Br. F.C. 426. 



Ovamboland : Cunene banks, Barnard, 32 ! Damaraland, in 

 pools near Otavifontein (Dinter). 



Distributed in slightly different forms throughout tropical Africa 

 and Asia. 



3. S. glauca (L.), P. Beauv. Essai Agrost., 1812, p. 51. 

 Namaqualand : Gamochab, Schinz, 607. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Widely spread in Africa ; cosmopolitan. 



4. S. sagittifolia, Walp. Ann. iii, 721. 



Ovamboland : Cunene banks, shady places under trees, Barnard, 



