880 GRAMINEX (Stapf). ‘[ Panicum. 
2400 ft., Buchanan, roi oe and base of the Bigars Berg, Buchanan, 105! 
and Riet Vlei, 4000-50! ., Buchanan, 214! 
Also in Seamlgnd, a very similar variety (P. serratwm var, gossypinum, 
Hack.) in Abyssinia. 
. Isachne (Roth ex Roem. & Schult. ii. 458); annual; culms 
geniculately ascending from a sometimes decumbent and rooting base, 
very slender, 1-2 ft. long, terete or angular, glabrous, 3- to many-noded, 
much branched below, simple above ; sheaths rather tight, terete or 
subterete, strongly striate, softly hairy or glabrous except at the 
minutely ‘villous nodes , the upper shorter than the internodes; ligule 
a dense fringe of stiff hairs ; blades linear-lanceolate from a rounded 
base, acute, 1-21 in. by 1-21 lin, flat or involute, rather rigid, 
softly hairy or quite cok age margins very scabrid ; false spikes 
2-10, secu secun and usually adpressed to a fili- 
= ge very slender, 3-1 in. long; rhachis. filiform, wavy, triquet- 
rous, scabrid ; pedicels solitary, very short, stout, seabrid or bristly, 
tips Md with hyaline margins ; spikelets 9-ranked, secund, con- 
i pallid with 
purplish tips, softly pubescent; lower glume facing the rhachis, 
minute, nerveless, rarely 3 lin. lon ng an nd 1-nerved ; upper membranous, 
oblong, peels, minutely hairy ; lower floret usually barren, some- 
times ¢; e like the upper glume, but narrower, 5—3-nerved ; 
pale ve pre ubequal to the valve in ¢@, shorter in ‘barren florets ; 
3 floret cllipti-oblong, rounded at both ends, 3—* lin. long ; valve 
subcoriaceous, faintly 5-nerved, shining, whitish, finely granulate ; 
anthers } lin. long; grain oblong-ellipsoid, 2 1 lin, Io ; hilum orbi- 
cular, 3 the length of the grain. Roth, Nov PL Spec. Shs Schult. Mant. 
ii. 252; Kunth, Enum. i. 97; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 57; Hook. 
Ju dts Brit. Tad. Wits 40. 2 ‘eruciforme, Sibth. & Sm., Fl. Gree. i. 
t. 59; Fl. Gree. Prodr. i. 40; Kunth, lc. 78; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 
434 ; " Aechers. fe Selig Illustr. Fl. Egypte, 159 ; Engl. Hochge- 
birgefl. Trop. Afr. 120; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 748. 
P. caucasicum, pia Sp. Gram, Ic. t. 262; Panic. Gen. 149, and in 
» b¢., BS. 
pubinode, Ho ch st, ex A. Rich. l.c. 363 ; Steud. lc. 57. Echinochloa 
ersaiforicia Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 29 , fig. 1413. 
Katanari Ree t Basutoland 5 Leribe, Buchanan, 145! 230! Bechuana- 
land ; "Spatlapis Country ee lub 
Ex: 3; near the Gekau (G G River, below 
1000 ft., Drége! Maint; "Rice Vlei, 4000-6000 tt., jet echale aibt at 16! 
Also in the Mediterranean ineolatites. India and Abyssinia. 
5. P. Merlothii (Hack. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xi. 398) ; gone 
culms geniculately ascending from a long decumbent rooting and 
much branched base, very slender 4 ft. “long, angular, often com- 
pressed Stow; sheaths rather lax, ‘subeompressed, ‘shorter than the 
