392 GRAMINESE (Stapf). { Punicum, 
n both sides; pale equal, acuminate; anthers 1—* lin. long; ¢ 
inet broadly elliptic, rounded, 1-13 lin. long, whitish ; valve with a 
scabrid muero up to lin. long, ‘b-nerved, ‘finely and transversely 
rugose; anthers * lin. long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 10 
Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 101. P. trichopodon, A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 369; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Aj. 
v. 766. P. dorsisetum, Hack. ex Durand & Schinz, l.e. 748 (name 
only). 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Zoutpans Berg, 1 = escayeely Kraal, Nelson, 
18*! Bosh Veld, salt ee Riv er and Klippan, Rehmann, 5121! 
EastEkN Reocion: Natal; Umpumulo, 1000 ft. ge oa 218! 
Also in tropical Africa. 
7. P. Helopus (Trin. in Spreng. Neu. Entdeck. 84) var. 
glabrescens (K. Schum. in Eng]. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 101); icc eulms 
suberect or ascending from a geniculate, sometimes decumbent and 
IE base, 1-2 ft. long, glabrous, striate, 4- to many-noded, branched 
simple except at the base; leaves more or less finely hirsute with 
Giabale based hairs, rarely glabrescent or glabrous; sheaths rather 
ax, pubescent to villous at the nodes, ciliate above; ligules very 
short, membranous, fimbriate; blades liriestanceolate- to lanceolate 
from a broad rounded or cordate base, aeute to acuminate, 2—4 in. b 
rhachis linear, }—1 lin. broad, flat on the back, with a very prominent 
midrib on the faee, seabrid. or spinulously ‘ciliate, and often with 
seattered fine vit tubercle-based bristles as well ; pedicels aatale 
solitary, very short, stout, scabrid, pubescent, with or without 2- 
bristles near the thickened a ; spikelets contiguous or subimbricate, 
ovate to ovate-oblong, acute, 2-22 lin. long, pallid, glabrous; lower 
glume turned away from ae "rhachis, broadly ovate, clasping, obtuse, 
equalling 1-4 of the spikelet, hyaline, 3—-5-nerv: ved ; upper glume 
membranous, ovate to ovate-oblong, subacute to subacuminate » promi- 
nently 7-9-nerved ; lower floret ¢ or barren ; valve ovate, acuminate, 
5—7-nerved ; pale equal, subacute; ¢ floret elliptic, "rounded at 
‘both ends, 14 lin. long, pallid; valve with a scabrid mucro, oP to 
z lin, long, transversely wrinkled, 5-nerved ; anthers scarcely } lin. 
long ; > grain — dorsally phe aasrapsis embyro 3 the length of the 
part). P. pate Rebtel Rich. Tent. Fil. ‘Aby ss. ii. 369. P.con- 
troversum, Steud. Syn Pl. Glum.i. 60. P. javanicum, Baker, Fl. 
Maurit. 434 (in pariys Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vii. 35 (in part), not Potr. 
Coast Re@ion: Queenstown Div.; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 
2351! 
CataPaRI ReGion: Orange Free State; between Harrismith and Leribe, 
Buc pence: 211! 
E N ReGion: Natal; without precise locality, Buchanan, 78! 
ae in ae Mascarene Islands, East Africa, Abyssinia, and India; the typical 
