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370 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Paspalum. 
Culms usually erect, fuscicled on a short ees spikelet 
broadly-elliptic to “orbicular, obtuse or subobtuse "ay scrobiculatum. 
Culms ascending from a creeping base ; spikelets acute or 
acutely acuminate : 
Blades 1-3 lin. broad, flat ; lateral false spikes sessile 
or subsessile ; spikelets ovate- oblong, acute (2) Digitaria. 
ppl 4-14 lin. broad, involute to subulate; false 
spikes peduncled, articulate on ba he of the culm; 
spikelets oblong, acute to acumir . (3) distichum. 
P. scrobiculatum (Linn. Mant. 29); perennial; culms 
fascicled on a very short premorse rhizome, innovation shoots few, 
usually intravaginal ; culmserect, rarely ascending from a prostrate, root- 
ing base, 1 to several feet long , usually sheathed throughout, glabrous ; 
leaves glabrous or more or less softly hairy ; sheaths lax, rather thin, 
short, almost ee ay stg coe 2-, ie tar pe Re imbri- 
cate, broadly elliptic to orbieular, obtuse, 1-13 lin. long, glabrous ; 
lower glume 0, upper convex, $-7-nerved ; lower valve flat, often 
arginal nerves 2 on each side, very close ; upper valve a ee 
brown, shining ; flaps, of pale auricled; anthers over 3 long. 
Fluegge, G ram. Mono ogr. 86; Trin. Pan. ‘Gen. 56, ind in Mém. Acad. 
: 3 TE: : : n 
i, 53; Sé end. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 21; Baker 2 Fi. Maurit. 432 ; 
Durand f Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 738; Hook. er “¢ Bu. Ind. 
vii. 10. P. Commersonii, Lamk. Illustr. i. ind 2, AB, He Ae 
Kora, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 332. P. dissectum, Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 15, 
not Agrost. Bras. nor Linn. P. mauritanicum, Nees ex Steud, Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 26 (?). 
Coast Reaion: Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, below 100 ft, 
Drége! Bathurst Div. ; by the Fish River, near Aisi satan Drift, below 500 ft., 
Drége. ae Div.; 3 near the Kei River Dre 
A atal; in gi by the * mnlasi oie —_ 147! in 
grassy plains between Durban Bay an Ace dlazi River, Kra 04! common 
beser Umpumulo, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 184! and without precise o eoality, Gerrard, 
Common a ge cae the Y Baty of the Old World. 
_ Digitaria (Poir. Encycl. Suppl. iv. 316); perennial; culms 
ascending from a creeping, often rooting and branching long base, 
many-noded, sheathed thropghout ; leave numerous, distichous, 
imbricate ; sheaths compressed, keeled, striate, thin, pale, glabrous 
except the finely ciliate upper margins, rather loose ; ligales m em- 
branous, short, truneate ; blades linear, acute 2-6 in. y 1-3 lin., 
spreading, flat, rarely involute, glabrous or eos hairy towards the 
Ise spikes usually 2 (rarely 3 or = hae pee or sub- 
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