Digitaria. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 379 
by far the ent svar renee or — sheaths thin, herba- 
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ceous, ane’ ome s bearde e nodes ; ligules truncate, up to 
more an _ney se Papas sed te to linear, acute, 
1-5 SS (~ 3-4 lin., flat, flaccid, — scabrid ; racemes few to 
many, subdigitate, solitary or 2- 3-na on a short | angular scaber- 
ulous common axis, erect or alee rather stout for the genus, 
usually strict, 1-6 in. long, often finely villous at the base; rhachis 
triquetrous, lateral angles winged, scabrid, internodes over 1 lin. 
long, pedicels 2-nate, one very short, the ot er up to % lin. long, 
triquetrous, scabrid ; ‘spikelets oblong, acute, 1-14 lin. long greenish 
the nerves and along the margins, lower valve oblong acute, 7- 
nerved, the inner lateral nerves somewhat distant from the middle- 
fine adpressed silky hairs along the margins and often also between 
the lateral nerves; upper valve subchartaceo ous, oblong, subacuminate 
or acute, greenish or purplish, slightly shorter than the lower valve ; 
anthers up tot lin. long. Reichb. Icon. Fl. Germ. i. fig. 1407; Johnson 
§ Sowerby, Brit. Grass. t.143. D. egyptiaca, Willd. Enum. Hort. 
Berol. 1809, 93. Panicum sanguinale, Lin n. Spec. Plant. 57 ; Sehreb. 
FP. pe she Jacq. Obs. 18, ¢ “70. Fag az gyptiacum, Retz. 
lil. 8; Kunth, Enum. i. po Nees :’ ; — 39. Paspalum 
Snguiniie: Lamk. Illustr. i . 176; ook. f. B ” Ind. vii, 18 (in 
part). Paspalum cee, Poin fees ycl. ja iv. 314. Syn- 
therisma vulgare, Schrad. Fl. Germ. 161. 
Soutu Arrica: with out “pang locality, Drége, 
Co Reeton: Clanwilliam Div.; Wu tt Wurmb. Cape 
gardens near Capetown, Ecklon, 963! Scar maa = Drége. “ "Swllendan 
and George District,’ Mund, Knysna Div.; Knysna Forest, E.S. “A. ¥ 
425! Uitenhage Div. ; in pide Par tans by rhe Zwartkops River, 
CentTRaL Region: Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, in edrevhete 
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“ASTERN ReEGIo : Natal ; near Durban, Williamson, 1 
cf miaee: rahe st West; Hay Div., at cen Town, Burchell, 
e no 
African ice of this vatiety, ais is a aaa “ y ioe 
spreading hairs along the seat of the spikel 
