396 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
glabrous, often more or less glaucous, smooth above, scabrid below 
in the upper part, margins cartilaginous, spinulous or scabrid, or 
smooth below, midrib usually broad, whitish; panicle erect, rarely 
nodding, usually linear-oblong, dense, 1-1 ft. long, facing all sides 
or sometimes subsecund ; axis stout, 3- 4- angular, suleate, hispidulous 
or glabrous and smooth except the scabrid angles, usually with a 
fringe of hairs at the nodes; branches very many, some solitary, 
others 2-nate or fascicled, the lowest distant, the others rather close, 
moderately dense simple or subsimple spikes; rhachis slender, 
triquetrous, hispidulous, or glabrous ; pedicels fascicled, very short, 
tips discoid ; spikelets ovoid, cuspidate, 13-2 lin. long, greenish or 
variegated with purple; glumes herbaceous-membranous ; lower 
broadly ovate, clasping at the base, acute, about 3 the length of the 
Bakes S-nerved, margins scabrid or ciliate ; uppe r glume ovate to 
the spikelet, 5—7-nerved, minutely and rigidly pubescent or sub- 
fl 
elliptic, rarely oblong, cuspidate, 12-2 lin. long, straw- coloured, 
smooth ; valve coriaceous, 5-nerved. Aunth, Rév 223, 
t. 23; Enum, i. 93 (excl. var. B); Trin. Panic. Ge » and t 
Mé cad, Pétersb. sér. vi. iii. 245; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 625 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 760, P. frumentaceum, v. cuspi- 
da = Nees in E. Meyer, Zwei Piinaelio yr. Docum. 207. 
_ Var. B, hebetatum Sale oth all —_ iar ; — a lin. bee flac ni 
ites le replaced y a pubescent lin fringe of short, fine bairs ; pam 
rec ae slender ; br bie up to Lin tong spileulate i sip rie 
in the type, 14 lin. long ; lower floret barren 
ra —— tuntens Var. 8: Uitenhage Div.; without precise locality, Ecklon & 
eyher 
HASTERN REGION: Natal; valley of the Umgeni River, Drége, 4242! 
The typical form is common Ne tropical Africa, sometimes covering 
large areas in and near stagnant w 
13. P. Crus-pavonis (Nees, Agrost. Bras. 259) var. rostratum 
Facts ‘perennial: culms erect, stout, terete, up to 5 ft. long, and to 
3 lin. thi ck below, dabrovs, smooth, about 5- doen sheathed all along 
long a ee in ing upper ae tapering to a very fine point, 
3-10 y 5- , flat, igcats eine smo oth above, scaberulous 
