388 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
clavis. was drawn up riage eT shows it to be a Panicum, nearest’ 
allied to P. sivcsenations Mun 
2. P. nigropedatum (Munro ex Hiern in Trans. Linn. Soc 
ser. 2, ii, 29); perennial, rhizome short, oblique, densely “beset 
with fascieles of culms and intravaginal innovation shoots ; 
hirsute, the uppermost iat pubescent or ‘subglabr ous ; ligule 
fringe of short rigid hairs ; blades linear from a narrow baoe, long 
green ; false spikes 3-8, secund or subsecund on a slender triquetrous 
puberulous eommon axis, erect or spreading, subequal or deereasing 
upwards, slightly longer than the internodes, stout, 1—-} in. long ; 
rhachis slender, almost s straight, convex and striate on the back, 
puberulous or minutely hirsute, rigidly ciliate along the margins, 
tomentose at the base; pedicels solitary, very short, stout, bristly, 
tips slightly thickener spikelets feng secund or subseeund, 
ellipsoid, euspidate, turgid, constricted at the base into a sho 
glabrous black stalk, 2 lin. long, pallid, tky-sitlove, contiguous or 
imbricate ; lower glume facing the rhachis, subhyaline, broadly ovate, 
acute or acuminate, 1 lin. lon ng, 3-5-nerved, shortly hairy; upper 
glume membranous, elliptic, rostrate-acuminate, 2 lin. long, very 
concave, faintly 5-nerved, laxly hairy to the base of the arith ne 
uppermost hairs longest, equalling the tip; lower floret ¢ ; valve 
equal and similar to the upper glume, nivalis and subglabrous ‘tone 
the depressed middle-line, with a tuft of long hairs on each side below 
rates pale elliptic, subacuminate, equalling the valve; anthers 1 lin. 
long; ¢ floret elliptic, euspidate or mucronulate, nearly 14 lin. mind 
valve subcoriaceous, 5-nerved, whitish, finely pitted. P. me no- 
stylum, Hack. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xi. 398; Durand & pres 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 756. 
coe AHARI Reeion: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; between Knegts Fontein 
nd a Fo ntein, ape ag 2610! Herbert Div. ; St. Clair , Douglas, Orpen, ew 
! Reet 3 on the Bosh Veld at Klippan, Rehmann, 
Extending into tropical Africa as far as the upper Zambesi region. 
rratum (Spreng. Syst. i. 309); perennial ; rhizome short, 
thick. Whienode with equally tomnenitoea innovation buds ; culms 
erect or geniculately ascending, simple or often much hiaricbied above 
the base, slender, }—2 ft. long, terete, pubescent above; leaves often 
ei distichously imbricate towards the base; sheaths tight, — 
the lowest tomentose, sometimes glabrescent, the following gradually 
less bry, glabrescent or glabrous, except the pubescent or villous 
