348 GRAMINES (Stapf). { Andropogon. 
* Glumes exceeding and enveloping the = ate K. Sch 
saccharatus (Kérn. in Korn. und Wern. Handb. d. Gots sh 
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ee 
Enum. : inn. Sp 
Plant. i. 1047. H. Caffrorum, Thunb. Prod. Pl. Cap. 20; Fl. —_ ed. Schult. 
109 (from the description). H. ag Forsk. Fl. Aigypt. Arab. 174. Sorghum 
saccharatum, Pers. Syn. i. 101. , Gram. Austr. iv. 8, t. 4. Nees, Fl. Afr. 
Austr. (eacl. var. B) 86. 8. peny Jas. Ecl. Gram. t. 18. 
AR, 8, rufescens (Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. * 511); panicle 
dense, rhachis glabrous, lower cranida short, endieided for 3-1 in.; spikelets ets 
elliptic, 3 lin. long, reddish below, yellowish oe ; lower Hee! quite coriaceous, 
or the very tips herbaceous, hairy only along the margins and below the tips; 
aa pale reddish. Sorghwm saccharatum B rubens, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 87 
L. Syn.). 
ei y, Usorum (Korn. l.c. 312); panicle dense, rhachis and branches pubes- 
cent, vill t the nodes, branchlets a“ ciliate along the angles, lower 
branches short, divided aluvont from the b spikelets broadly elliptic, over 
Se ; 
22 lin. long, hairy, eg wish ; grain yellowish or reddish. Hack. 
Sorghum Usorum, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 87. Andropogon Usorum, Steud. 
** Gliumes shorter than on grain, adpressed to it seg K. Schum.). 
Var. 5, Cafer (Korn. 1.c. 307); panicle effuse, rh short, branches up to 
6 in. long, nodding. F unaeeaied to or bigg the ee mie hairy ;_ grains 
reddish, much longer than the glum Holeus ag P. Ardui ino, Saggi Padov. 
i. 119, 4.1. f.i. Panicum Silanes, Shale. Obs. 
Var. ¢, Schenkii (Korn. in ee aie m, 319) panicle contracte ted ; 
branches glabrous except the scantily pubesce nh odes; glumes 3 yellowish, 
glabrous or subglabrous ; me yellows reddish, 23 lin. long 
Var. ¢, Neesii (Korn. l.c. 315); panicle compact, erect or recurved, a his and 
elnitonticn pec tomt hairy ra lous, ie er branches undivided for , short; 
spikelets suborbicular, very obtuse, 2 lin. long, minutely villous, sales ;_ lower 
glume Gate canoe dark-brown or black when mature; grain subglobose, 
white. Sorghum bicolor, mgemde pe Afr. Austy. 86, yi Willd. 
Vax. , melanospermus (Hack. 1.c. oe like the preceding, but spikelets 
straw- wie, scantily hairy, esi black 
The cereal of the sapelioe generally kane as the Kaffir corn; occasionally 
grown in gardens in the western parts of the Cape Colony. I have seen ees e 
few South African nin and as some of scinge are rather young or other 
imperfect, the following determinations tr hav she revised along with those 
com nd. 
Var. saccharatus is very probably pctaniaiee vets a young specimen in the 
. . a gh bie olor, 23 and 
ysna sesei the : 
2 forms, an a almost ‘ied mature —s whilst, ‘in the. ther, - ei 
siroiag is the same as in the flowering state. e Takun specimen is 
