Panicum.) GRAMINES® (Stapf). 391 
internodes, striate, glabrous or with scanty les Tee hairs, 
slightly bearded at the nodes, ciliate along the outer margin, minutely 
villous at the nodes ; ligule a dense fringe of sith hairs ; rap linear- 
lanceolate from a rou nde d base, acute, 7-15 lin. by ee 2 lin., firm, 
green, puberulous above, glabrous below carat raed some purine i 
based hairs along the midrib, margins cartilaginous, distantly fim- 
briate with long rigid ilasniosteee bristles; false spikes 2-4, crowded 
up to } lin. long, seabrid an with 1-3 stilt ere iy ites im- 
bricate, elliptic, obtuse or nepal 1 lin. long, pallid, minutely 
airy; lower glume facing the rhachis in the subsessile spikelets 
forming the inner 2 ranks, turned away in the others, broadly ovate, 
acute, } lin. long, subhyaline, 1-nerved; upper glume membranous, 
oblong, whitish with 5 green nerves, scantily puberulous and with 2 
little transverse tufts of hairs 4 mee the tip ; i lower floret ¢ ; valve 
like the upper glume, rather narr wer; pale subequal ; anthers 2 lin, 
long; ¢ floret broadly elliptic, panded at both ends, * lin. long ; 
valve finely pitted, faintly 5-nerved, whitish; anthers } lin long. 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 753. 
Katanart Region: Griqualand West; on hills near Barkley West, Marloth, 
ae and in pirated Sabe on stony plains near Maneering, Marloth, 1147 (ex 
el). 
Nearly allied to P. Isachne. 
6. P. trichopus (Hochst. in Flora, 1844, sa) eee (?); 
culms ascending from a decumbent geniculate bas ~2 ft. long, 
slender, glabrous or pubescent, 4- to many-noded, s ate or seantily 
hairs, rarely alg aie ee sheaths rather lax, bearded at the necdes, 
ciliate along the outer margin ; ligules membranous very short, fim- 
riate ; blades linear to linear- ianceolate from a broad rounded or 
subcordate base, acute to acuminate, 2—4 in. by 2-6 lin., flat, flaccid, 
common axis, suberect or spreading, secund, 2~4-ranked, 1-2} in. 
long; rhachis linear, 2 1_8 lin. broad, flat on ‘the bac k, with a very 
prominent midrib on the face, scabrid or spinulously ciliate and often 
with long fine tubercle-based bristles as well, villous at the 
pedicels solitary, or 2-nate and then unequal, very short, stout, scabrid, 
pubescent, with 1-3 bristles near the thickened tips; spikelets con- 
tiguous or imbricate, elliptic-ovate, acutely acuminate, 2 lin. long, 
pale ; a pus turned ay from the ain elliptic, rials 
