Paspalum.| GRAMINER (Stapf). 371 
scabrid ; pedicels very short, stout, scabrid ; spikelets solitary, rarely 
2-nate, ovate- -oblong, acute, 1-12 lin. ong, subimbricate, adpressed 
to the ‘rhachis, green ; lower glume 0 or more or less developed, very 
rounded to lanceolate ; upper glume convex, usually pubescent, 5- to 
sub-7-nerved ; lower valve usually 3-nerved, rarely with 1-2 additional 
side-nerves, middle- -nerve percurrent ; pale minute or 0; upper 
valve subcoriaceous, 5-nerved, smooth ; pale not auricled ; anthers 
4 lin. long. Gray, Man. = Un. tat. ed. v. 645. P. michauxia- 
num, Kunth, Rev. Gram. i. 25. P. Elliottii, Wats. in Gray, Man. 
Fl. Un. Stat. ed. vi. 629. “p paspaloides, Scribn. in Mem. Torr 
Bot. Club. v. 29. Digitaria paspalodes, Mich. Fi. Bor. Amer. i. 46 ; 
Duby, Bot, Gall. i, 501. 
Coast REGion: Cape ; roadside between High Constantia and Nek, 
Dod, 2477! near Piece Station, Dod, 2381! 
f American origin, introduced into Southern Europe, India, Australia and 
es Zealand, but very rare 
3. P. distichum (Linn. Amoen. Acad. v. 391) ; perennial ; culms 
fte ng 
base, many-noded, sheathed throughout ; leaves numerous, distichous, 
imbricate below, sheaths thin, pale, glabrous except the often bearded 
mouth, the lower at length loose ; ; ligules very short, truncate, with 
fine hairs from behind ; blades linear, acute, 2-4 in. by 3-12 lin 
spreading, involute, rarely flat, g abrous ; false mikes 2-nate, both 
peduncled ae articulate on the top of the culm, rarely 3-nate, often 
spreading, rhachis herbaceous, 3 lin. broad, margins scabrid ; spikelets 
subsessile, solitary, oblong, acute to acuminate, 1-2 lin. long, dorsally 
flattened, imbricate and “adpressed to the rhachis, glabrous, pale ; 
lower glume 0 ; upper slightly convex, 5- or 4-nerved (middle-nerve 
suppressed), side-nerves close, submarginal ; lower valve very like the 
glume, middle-nerve always percurrent, side. -nerves 2-3 on each 
side, submarginal; upper valve distinctly shorter, subcoriaceous, 
5-nerved, smooth, pale; pale obscurely ghiges nthers 3 tog 
long; grain 2 lin. ong. Burm. Fl. Ind. 2 
t. 80; Kunth, Enum. i. 52; Steud. Syn. Pl. ie. i. 39. Barts 
Fl. Maurit. 431 ; ; Durand & ’ Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 737 ; Hook. 
f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 12. P. littorale, R. Br. Prodr. 188 ; Trin. Diss. 
i, 95; Spec. Gram. Ie. t. 112; Kunth, lec. 51. P. "Tongifloru m, 
Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 46, t. 85 ,fig.2 2, not Baker nor Durand & Schinz. 
P. vaginatum, Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Oce. 21, not Beauv. ; Trin. 
Diss. i. 94; Spec. Gram. Ic. t. 120; Kunth, l.c. 52; Steud. Le. 20. 
P. ¢ squamatum, Steud. l.e. 21. i canal paspaloides var. longipes, 
Lge. in Wilik. & Lge. Prodr. Fl. Hisp. i. 45. 
nanum (Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras, II. ii. 75); 2-3 in. high; bla 
elt Hgin n. long ; racemes fan lin. hag: on very slender ouduacdels spikelets 
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PE ie : Var. 8: Cape Div.; shore at Camps Bay, Dod, 2343 
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