Panicum.) GRAMINER (Stapf). 387 
tubercle-based hairs, villous at the base, internodes 11-22 lin. long ; 
pedicels solitary, alternate from near the edges, very short, stout; 
spikelets usually 1-ranked, contiguous, ellipsoid, obtuse, turgid, about 
i ips, glabrous; lower glume mem- 
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ve the base. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 63; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. xxix. 170, ¢. 112, jig 1; Engl. Hochgebirgsft. Trop. Afr. 120; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp, Fl. Afr. v. 742. 
EasTERN ReEcion: Natal ; near Umpumnlo and Mapumulo, Buchanan, 183! 
Tnanda, Wood, 1579! 1601! Fenton Tacy, Wood, 1577! 
Also in tropical Africa, 
la. P. mesocomum (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 84) ; perennial; culms 
ascending, repeatedly geniculate, over 11 ft. long, terete, branched 
longer than the internodes ; pedicels finely filiform, glabrous or 
minutely puberulous, curved, the lateral up to 2 lin. long, tips 
ia ‘ : ; 
obtuse, 3 lin. long, subhyaline, 3-5-nerved, pubeseent below, 
ciliolate ; upper glume oblong-lanceolate, rostrate-acuminate, 3 lin 
ong, membranous, 5-nerved, with a dense row of hairs attached 
Paco shining, 11 lin, long, 5-nerved. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 
} Durand § Schinz, Conspectus Fl. Afr. v. 754. 
WEsTERN R rs ‘ i r Verlapt- 
Praam, Draye, Nee. : Little Namaqualand; by the Orange River, nea P 
‘Ss very peculiar species was considered to be a Tricholena at the time the 
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