Panicum. ] GRAMINEH (Stapf). 389 
margins and nodes ; ligule a fringe of short rigid anaes ; ere linear 
to linear- lanceolate with a callous point, 1-4 in. by 14-24 lin., rigi 
flat or involute, glabrous or hairy, particularly near the so , margins 
cartilaginous, wavy, spinulous ; false spikes 4-10 secund on a filiform 
angular glabrous or puberulous common axis, erect or spreading, 
usually longer than the internodes, gradually decreasing upwards, 
dense, 12-3 lin. long, rhachis filiform, angular, very wavy, rigidly 
uheccaes to shbhirente, pedicels solitary or the lowest 2-nate, filiform 
with discoid tips, curved, the lower very short, the upper up to 1 lin. 
long, hairy; spikelets usually 2-ranked, contiguous or subcontiguous, 
obovoid- calli pied’, obtuse, turgid, 12-12 lin. long, pallid, overtopped 
by a purplish tuft of silky hairs ; lower "glume facing the rhachis, sub- 
hyaline, broadly ovate to rotund ovate, obtuse, 5] lin. long, often 
pur plish, 3-nerved, hairy ; upper glume membranous, broadly-elliptie, 
acute or subeuspidate, 14-14 lin. long, very concave, faintly 5-nerved, 
minutely villous or glabrescent i in the centre, with a dense teensveres 
4 * ? 
or ciliate near hea tip, ‘finely pitted. Kunth, Rev. ar i, 215, 
¢t. 19; Enum. i. 98; Tri ae tei 146, and in Mém. Acad. 
Pétersh. ser, vi. ii. 233; "Nees BAP: Austr. 31; Steud. Syn. 
Pi. Glum. i. - 57; Durand nage hah ‘Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 765 (inelud. 
Nees, le. 30, tk Bre Holcus serratus, Thunb. Prodr. 20; £1. 
me ed. Schult. 110. Sorghum serratum, Roem. § Schult, Syst. ii. 
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Rieeioes Swellendam us Valley i daha River, &e 
Swellend iv ae - 
6635! Mossel Bay Div. ; ara Little Brak River and Hartenbosch, Burchell, 
6206! Hnmansdo orp Div, ; on Kromme pated Siri Bolus, 2696! Uitenhage 
Div.; hills by the Zwart River, Eck Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg 
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Poort, 2000 {t., Drége. Stockenstrom Div. ; pes: ginene & Zeyher! 
Cathcart Diy.; between Kat Berg and Klipplaat River, 3000-4000 ft., tbe he 
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ix Gea ReGion: Orange Free State; without precise locality, Cooper, 
910! 3343! Bas ge nd ; without precise Sonali, Corer 921! Bechuanaland ; 
Kuraman, Burchell, 2186! and between Hamapery and Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 
2543! Transvaal; W. onderfontein, Nelson, 11*!° Matebe Valley, Holub! near 
ilms, 1 
‘Eastern Region: cossintaniie Bazeia, Baur, 319! Natal; Umpumulo, 
