Panicum. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 393 
form with densely pubescent spikelets has not been found on the African 
continent. 
8. P. arrectum (Hack. ex Durand and Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 
741); perennial, quite glabrous ; culms ascending from a prostrate, 
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rooting base, 1}-2 ft. long, compressed below, terete in the upper 
1-2 spreading hairs; spikélets contiguous, oblong, subacute, 13—-1% 
the upper glume, but narrower, 7-nerved; pale equal, obtuse; anthers 
over 1 lin. long; @ floret broadly elliptic, obtuse, 11-12 lin. long ; 
valve 7-nerved, transversely wrinkled. P. subquadriparum, Nees, 
Fl. Afr. Austr. 29, not Trin. 
Coast ReGion: Uitenhage Div.; without precise locality, Zeyher. Albany 
Div. ; between Assegay Bosh and Botram, 1000-2000 ft., Drége! Komgha Div. ; 
near the Kei River, below 1000 ft., Drége! 
ASTERN REGION: Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, 686! 
lower broadly ovate, acute, $1 lin. long, hyaline, 1-nerved ; upper 
thinly membranous, oblong, acute or subacuminate, almost 1} lin. 
long, faintly 5-nerved; lower floret ¢; valve very similar to the 
Upper glume; pale equal, obtuse; anthers % lin. long; ret 
elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin. long, whitish; valve 5-nerved, 
‘tustaceous, smooth; anthers $ lin. long. Hack. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 
x1. 398; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 750. 
WEstERN Recon: Great Namaqualand, Gubub, near Aus, Schinz, 640! 
Also in Mossamedes, near the Coroca River. 
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