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ge 
Anthistiria.] GRAMINE® (Stapf), 369 
tuberele-based bristles; racemes 4-51 lin. long, erect; involucral 
spikelets whorled, sessile, persistent, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate 21-32 lin. long, reddish, barren or imperfectly 
with stiff bristles which spring from large tubercles, otherwise 
glabrous; lower valve generally present ; pedicelled spikelets narrow, 
» Jig. : 
1. 481; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 401; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 448; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit, Ind. vii. 213. A. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 
Curey, i. 248; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 125. A. — Nees, l.c. 
Themeda ciliata, Hack. Andr ‘op. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 664 
Coast Rea@ron: Cape Town, in gardens (evidently introduced), ts 1990! 
A native of India, introduced elsewhere. 
XII. PASPALUM, Linn. 
Spikelets orbicular to oblong, obtuse, rarely acute or acuminate 
falling entire from the very short or obscure pedicels, secund an 
cay with a seiaciciviag pale, upper floret 3. papi glume 
(oceasionally present and small in P. Digitaria), upper mem branous, 
] 
nerve, rarely nerveless. Valves equal or subequal, lower resembling 
the upper glume, usually 3-5-, rarely 7-nerved, with the side-nerves 
curved, dlase, § mostly submarginal and distant from the middle-nerve, 
when present, upper chartaceous to subcoriaceous, faintly 5-7-nerved. 
Pale subequal to and of the same texture as the valve, 2-nerved. 
Lodicules 2, cuneate. Stamens 3. Styles distinct, slender; stigmas 
laterally exserted near the tip of the floret. Graz m tightly. enclosed 
by the slightly hardened valve and pale, domaly subcompressed ; 
ilum basal, punctiform ; embryo less than half the length of the 
grain. 
Pe whe nial or annual, of various oy false spikes solitary, 2-nate, digitate 
panic led ; pedicels y usually ve ery short and adnate to the dilated rhachis ; S ikelecs 
imbricate or contiguous , rarely distant, "pei or sometimes 2-nate. 
Species over 150, with very few exceptions, natives of the New World. 
The shcary has been divided — 3-7 distinct sections by different ae aners. 
The South African species belong to the section ifitaing en aes which is charac 
arta having the lower valve, “Which j is usually very flat, turned away ~ 
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