394 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
10. P. Holubii (Stapf); perennial; culms erect or geniculate from 
a slender rhizome, 2-3 ft. long, terete, glabrous, 4-5-noded, sheathed 
all along or the upper internodes exserted ; leaves glabrous ; sheaths 
rather loose, terete, striate, bases of the owest persistent, ‘breaking 
up into fibres; ligule a fringe of fine hairs; blades linear, scarcely 
narrowed or constricted at the base, 2 hanna to a fine point, 
4-10 in. by 2-3 lin., more or less glaucous, smooth except in the 
upper part, margins finely Bi eae smooth or scabrid ; false 
spikes adpressed 1 to the slender compressed seabrid axis of a ‘linear 
usually interrupted erect panicle from 4-6 in. long, compact 
ranked, 4—8 in. long ; rhachis spate scabrid, slightly wavy, villous 
at the base : pedicels 2-38-nate, mely short, tips discoid ; 
spikelets oblong, subacute or hee ce 13 lin. long, pallid or 
vie wit ye e; glumes very thin; lower broly ovate, 
oe upper 5 ; pale subequal to the valve, keels scabrid ; anthers 
lin. lon 3 floret equalling the , elliptic-oblong, shortly 
ee or cuspidate, light straw-coloured, back s ia ngly convex 5 
valve subcoriaceous, 5-nerved ; anthers slightly over } 1 lin. lon 
Coast Recion: King Mi eee Div. ; Seige 0 sont Buchanan, 1! 
KatanarI ReGion : Bechua ; Kuruman, Burchell, 2128/7! Transvaal ; 
Bosh Veld at Klippan, Sakmann, pore saat a a precise locality, Holub ! 
Also on the upper Zambesi (Holub). 
Burchell’s specimen was grown in England from a Sopoae Ah him raeal 
and the anthers up to 1 li 
vin P: miseries eae Naturf. xxiii. 201); annual or 
perennial ; culms erect from a geniculat e or prostrate pase, terete or 
wallet, ‘up to 6 ft. high, in tall specimens to more than 3 lin. thick 
below , often r rooting from the lower nodes, sheathed all along or 
some ‘of the internodes at length exserted, often branched in the 
lower part ; sheaths finely jieiae smooth, terete or subcarinate above, 
quite glabrous, rarely pubescent "at the lowest nodes ; ligule a fringe 
ot rather long stiff hairs, or sometimes 0 in the u permost leaves ; 
blades linear from a scarcely narrowed usually not decurrent base, 
long-tapering to a fine point, } to more than 1+ ft. by 23~7 lin., flat, 
or flaccid, glabrous, light green or glaucous, smooth above, 
scabrid below, particularly in the u margins cartilaginous, 
scabrid to spinulous; panicle erect or nodding, 4-10 in. long, 
secund is slender, more or less flexuous, convex or flat on the 
axis slen 
back, usually hispidulous with scattered bristles, rarely glabrous except 
on the scabrid angles; branches few to many, distant or rather 
crowded, alternate, suberect or nodding, 1-2 in. long, — often 
stout dense 2-4-ranked simple secund sessile false spikes; rhachis 
