Panicum.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 395 
like the axis, but more slender; pedicels 4—2-nate, extremely short, 
tips discoid; spikelets crowded, ovate-oblong to lancevlate-ovate, 
2-3 lin. long, rarely less, pallid, ‘his pid ; glumes thin, lower ovate, 
acuminate or produced into a short, scabrid, compressed awn, 
5-nerved or 7-nerved at the tips, pubescent between the hispidulous 
nerves; lower floret g or sometimes barren; valve similar to the 
anthers, when present, 1 lin. long; ¢ floret oblong to lanceolate- 
oblong, mucronate-acuminate, 1-91 lin. long excluding the or 
mucro, see among smooth, be valve 5-nerved, . Obs. 
744 
bale Sf Si lie. 764, P. pietum, Nees, Fi. es Austr. "eo 
wot Agrost. Bras., nor Koen. HKchinochloa stay Ae Beauv. Agrost. 
161. scabra, Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 479. Orthopogon 
stogninus, ee Syst. i. 307. Oplismenus stagninus, Kunth, Kev. 
4; knum. i. 144 (in part). O. scaber, Kunth, Rév. 
Gram, i. 44; Bus. i, 145. 
Sour A¥rRica: without ag 7 pte Thunberg ! 
Coast Region: Alexa: ery below 500 ft., Drege! Komgha 
Div. ; sandy banks - Kei gra Manager n, 9 
EastERN REGION hay Diy. ; ; near rahi (Gcua or Geuu) River, Drége, 
4238! Delagoa Bay, Forb 
Indi 
he few South African specimens, which I have seen, represent a state with 
somewhat smaller spikelets than is usual in this species. Nees’ description of 
- pictum in Fl. Afr. Austr. 59, is copied from Agrost. Bras. 260, ts very 
Well the Indian plant so nam oenig, but not Drége’s South African 
Speciens, referred by Nees to P. pictum. However, P. pictwm, Koenig, is 
scarcely haart es distinct from P. stagninum, being rather a variety of 1 
distinguished by it riled turgid spikelets. 1t seems to be much more common 
in India than the 
12. P. pyramidale (Lam. Illustr. i. 171, excl. var. 8); perennial ; 
T 
