380 GRAMINEX (Stapf) [ Digitaria, 
longest, long exserted; leaves glabrous or very sparingly hairy ; 
sheaths thin, the lower withering ; ligules very short; blades linear- 
lanceolate, acute, 1-3 in. by 14-22 lin., flat, flaccid, scaberulous in 
the upper ‘part, margins scabrid ; ; Tacemes subdigitate, slender, erect 
or spreading, 12 in. long, minutely villous at the insertion; 
rhachis very narrow and wavy, triquetrous, angles scabrid, intends 
up to 2 lin. long; pedicels 2-nate, one very short, the other up to 
lin. long, triquetrous, scaberulous; spikelets oblong, acute, 
13 lin. long, greenish, glabrous; glumes thin, lower broadly ovate, 
up to % lin. long, l-nery ed or ner rveless, upper ovate, acute, 1 lin. 
long, \-sub-3- nerved ; valves equal, lower 7-9-nerved, upper sub- 
chartaceous, acuminate, pale to dark-brown. Panicum diversinerve, 
Nees, Fil. Afr. Austr. 23; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 40; Durand 
& aes or Fil. a Austr v. 748. 
tal; voods Durban, Dréye! Plant, 56! 
Melon, 10! Sra Fist) pone eal and itiensd precise locality, Gerrard, 695 ! 
10. D. tenuiflora (Beauv. Agrost. 51); annual or subperennial ; 
eulms fascicled, very slender, prostrate and rooting, or ascending ot 
suberect, i-41i ft. long, glabrous, many-noded, often branched ; 
sheaths rather lax, or the lower more or less hairy, sometimes bearded 
at the nodes ; ligules very short, membranous ; blades lanceolate ee 
ie acute or es A 2-3 lin, long, sr or purplish ; ower 
q 
upper glume, flat, 7-nerved ; upper valve subchartaceous, ovate- 
oblong, slightly shorter iyi the lower; flaps of pale overlapping 
below ; anthers 2 lin. long. D. Pseudo-Durva, Schlechtend. in 
nned, xxvi. 458; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 489. 
linearis, Schult. f. Mant. ii. oe not Roem. § Schult. Paspalum 
longiflorum, _ Obs. 15 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 431 5 
8 Fl . . 
vii. 17. P. brevifslinm, Fluegge, Orion Monogr. 150; Kunth, ie 
i. 48. P. ten uiflorum, R. Br. Prodr.193. P. parvulum, Trin. 
Gen. 117, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersh. sér, vi. iii. (1835) 305; Sto. 
Syn. Pl. Glum.i. 41. P. Pseudo-Durva, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
Este EGION: Natal; near Durban, Drége, Durban Flat, Buchana”, 
oth ! near Us ‘Umnpunel, 1000 ft., Buchanan, 204a! and without precise loc ality 
errar 
meee the pies of ms Old hada sisen 
have not bit able to tind a iowa pe in cleo or the African specimens 
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