376 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Digitaria. 
Keikams Poort, gi bara 1612/8! wig Free State ; without re wee 
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Plant, 62! between Umzimkal a ie i anzi rage oo coast region 
near Umpetez oe Sutherland ! ‘Rortinghar, kaon common near 
Umpumulo, Buchanan, 208! and without oe gy ‘Gere vard, 467! 
Buchanan, 19! 
so in tropical Transvaal, and as far as the Zambesi; in a slightly ares 
variety in the Mediterranean region fr eval ies to North-west India, A 
were distibated by Wight and ake with ues daterminatian as Panicum 
n of his P. 
tum ; t there is no plant named P. jiliforme in 1 reread herbarium, nor a 
specimen vf i adenengee ‘Moreover, as satan refers to Linneus as author, 
who had a eric when henigee his P. filiforme, I think 
en the + was gr cya in Thunberg’ s Prodromus and Flora Capensis by 
D. setifolia (Stapf); perennial, densely czspitose ; 
erect, very slender, 1~1 ft. long, glabrous ; leaves glabrous except 
the scantily hairy mouth of the sheath or more or less hairy, all 
crowded at the base except the uppermost which is reduced to a 
very long almost bladeless sheath; basal sheaths rae persistent, 
at length breaking up into fies ig be se truncate ; 
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valve subchartaceous, oblong, s Saarinen, chestnut-brown except 
the hyaline whitish margins ; anthers 3 lin. long. 
Coast Rrecion: Albany Div, ; on mountain slopes near Grahamstown, 
2000 ft., MacOwan, 1300! : a 
297 | ASTERN REGION: Tembuland: moist spots near Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 
flat, flaceid, peas or eines ite ear the he se; racemes 2-7, 
subdigitate, erect or spreading, very slender, strict, 2-12 in. long ; 
rhachis very narrow, linear, up to 1 lin, broad, margins scabrid, 
