Digitaria. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 377 
internodes about 14 lin. long; pedicels 2-3-nate unequal, up to 
more than 1 lin. long, shortly hairy towards the scarcely thickened 
tips ; spikelets adpressed to the rhachis, oblong-elliptic, obtuse or 
1 
subobtuse, about 1 lin. long, pale; lower glume 0; upper very 
sides densely villous with clavate hairs ; 
prominently 5-nerved, very densely and adpressedly silky villous 
with clavate hairs, upper chartaceous, ovate-oblong, subacute, dark- 
brown to black, except the whitish hyaline margins; anthers 3 lin. 
ong. Panicum ternatum, Hochst. in Flora, 1841, i.. Intell. 19; 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 40; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 118 ; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 766. P. pheeocarpum, var. 
gracile, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 23. Cynodon ternatum, A. Rich. Tent. 
i Abyss. ii. 405. Paspalum ternatum, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind, vii. 
Coast ReEeion: Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Bawr, 780! f 
Eastern REGION: Transkei; near the Gekau (Gcua or Geunu) River, below 
1000 ft., Drége ! Natal; near Umpumulo, 2000-2500 ft., Buchanan, 203! 205! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 77! 
Also in Abyssinia and India. 
long, glabrous, 5- or more noded, upper node by far the longest ; 
leaves glabrous or hairy; sheaths rather thin, striate ; ligules 
. 30. ; 
dectpiens, Fig. § De Notaris, in Mem. Acc. Torin. sér. ii. xiv. (1853) 
359, ¢. 24, “Panicum debile, Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. 59; Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 413; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr.v. 746. P. fili- 
Sorme, Poir. Voy. en Barb. ii. 93, not Linn. P. reimarivides, Anderss. 
in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 547. Paspalum debile, Poir. Eneyel. 
Moca (excl. syn.) ; Fluegge, Gram. Monogr. 136; Kunth, Enum. 
Eastern Region : Natal; Umpumulo, Buchanan, 202! and without precise 
locality, Gerrard, 693 ! 
