382 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Digitaria. 
truncate or rotundate, up to + lin. long, upper oblong, acute to obtuse, 
1-15 lin. long, 3- nerved, densely villous with long soft acute hairs, 
y g ha in. 
chartaceous, oblong, actealy. acuminate, 2 lin. long; anthers over 
1 lin. long 
Coast mggeN King Williamstown Div.; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 
tL! 
EastERN RecGion: Tembuland; Tabase, near Bazeia, 2500 ft. Baur, 317! 
Natal; Umsinga and base of the Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 87! 
The Pig often purplish, silky hairs of the spikelets gi e this grass the appear- 
ance of a Tricholena; the ff one of the ies elets is, ican as in frat 
nei a oe The American D. leucophea, Stapf = Panicum leuco- 
he w.), is easily divtenerinted | by the Wag axis of the in loresogitb! It 
Feiflcabank yor m the Cape ne by Kunth and satis who were misled by Thun- 
berg’s erroneous identification of a specimen of Tricholena with Andropogon 
insularis, L., which is  ajeceratons with D. lewcophea. 
villous, — delicately hyaline, rather broad ; lower valve oblong, 
subacute, re o almost 2 lin. long, 7-nerved, glabrous along the 
middle- _nerve, pee villous on the sides, particularly along the 
upper edge of the inflexed margins, hairs acute, somewhat rigid, 
often purplish, exceeding the pate upper valve subchartaceotsy 
oblong, acuminate, up to 12 lin. lon 
Coast Region: King Williamstown is v.; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 9! 
saa Reeion : Natal; Umsinga and bene of the Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 
This species is remarkable for having 2 short, nerved, cuneate lodicules in the 
lower ‘flaret although the pale itself is s extremely re = = and scarcely exceeds 
the I do not know any cue similar case in the g 
XIV. PANICUM, Linn. 
Spikelets variously shaped, usually more or less ovate oF ——- 
falling entire from the pedicels, loosely ccttena, solitary, 2-nate oF 
fascicled on the rhachis of the spike-like branches (false spikes) of 3 
panicle. Lower floret usually 3, or reduced to the valve an Therbe- 
