374 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Digitaria. 
short, truncate ; blades setaeeously convolute, filiform, 2-4 in. long, 
rather r rigid or ‘fle uous, glabrous or seantily hairy, smooth ; raceme 
spikelike, solitary, terminal on the long exserted culm, very slender, 
23-5 in. long; rhachis wavy, very narrow, ciliate, midrib obtuse, 
superposed ones distant almost by their own length, oblong-lanceo- 
late, up to 12 lin. long, with silky and ad pressed hairs ; lower glume 
0, upper linear-oblong, 3 to almost in, long, long and densely 
ciliate, 3-2-nerved ; lower valve oblong- lanapolate, wiles minate, up 
to 12 lin. long, 5_7-nerved, densely and long ciliate, particularly 
along the marginal nerves ; upper subchartaceous, ovate-lanceolate, 
subacuminate, 1 lin. long, smooth, brown; flaps ale very broa 
below, aie Lid anthers } lin. long. eons monodactylum, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. Fea Syn. Pl. Glum. . 56; Durand § 
Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. 
Coast Ree@ion : Alexandria she ae, many hills near Ado, Eckior 
tL Reeion: Aliwal North Div.; at the ey of the Witte Bergen, 
between Leeuwen Spruit and _ beg: 5000 ft., Dré 
1 Region: Orange Free State; Drakens ae Range, near Har 
smith, i, 121! = Buchanan, 234! Sentral Apies ave, 
Nelson, 102* ! 
2. D. Sass orgie (Stapf); perennial; culms erect or ascend- 
ing from a short premorse rhizome, very slender, 1-1} ft. long, 
ay Nag much branched near or above the base from usually swollen 
nodes, or simple and 1—3-noded near the base ; leaves mostly crowded 
at the base of the branches or of the culms ; sheaths glabrous or 
scantily hairy, or the lowest rong tomentose at the v ery base 
and i dn or withering ; ligules very short, truncate ; blades 
near the base; rhachis very slender, more or less wavy, t sa agr 
angles not winged, smooth or scantily scabrid; pedicels 2-nate, finely 
filiform, angular, scabrid, glabrous, unequal, the longer 14 to 2 lin 
long, adpressed or spreading ; spikelets oblong, acute, 1-1} lin. long, 
acute, very closely and prominently 7—9-ner d, more or less silky 
0 @ margins Fp pits 1 or 2 ~ of the side-nerves, hairs 
short or long as in the er glume; upper valve subchartaceous, 
greenish, ae Retry slightly shorter than the lower ; : Serie 1 lin. 
long. Paniewm argyrograptum, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 27; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 40. P. earch ast ee Hack. in 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 
