Panicum.) GRAMINEX (Stapf). 397 
long, forming sessile, stout, very dense, simple or compound, sub- 
secund false spikes; rhachis usually beset with tubercle-based 
bristles ; eee 2-nate or fascicled on very short branchlets, very 
short up to 3 lin. long, scabrid, tips obscurely discoid ; spikelets in 
compact clusters, elliptie- oblong, caudate-acuminate, rie 4 lin. long, 
acute to subacuminate, elasping at the base, 1—2 lin. long, 3—5-nerved, 
very concave, cus pidate- -acuminate, fet the spikelet, 5-nerved, 
rigidly pubescent grein the scabrid or spinulous nerves ; lower 
floret barren; valve similar to the upper glume, but flat = depressed 
pale oblong, keels scaberulous above; ¢ floret hale Seni ibe 
acuminate or cuspidate, up to 1} lin, long, greenish-yellow, smooth ; 
‘Valve crustaceous, 5-nerved ; wethuds oe in. long 3 grain obovate- 
onions, very broad, 3 lin. long. P. Crus-pavonis, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
sir. 59, and Durand § Schinz, Clasp. Fl, Afr. v. 745 (as to the 
ret an plant ). 
ASTERN Sarda : Natal; on sand-flats near the mouth of the Umsimkulu 
ver, D ghee Flats, Buchanan, 4! Umhlali, Wood, 3992! and without 
price teanlliy, Gerrard, 496 ! teen 269! 
Also in marshes in Northern N yasaland. 
The typical dg which has less compactly crowded chet satis spe Soa 
With longer ns, is common Ce ee tropical Am des ription, 
in Fl. Afr ie, is dra p fro and does ver see "with ‘Drege e’s 
rae Minute arieeted authaes tid ‘Tidioelas oceur sometimes in the lower 
ret. 
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14. P. Crus-galli (Linn. Sp. Plant. 56); annual; culms genicu- 
lately ascending ee soci below, 1-3 ft. high, glabrous, smooth, 
len 
less exserted, ofian branched below ; sheaths striate, smooth, the 
lower eer strongly compressed, whitish, glabrous except the lowest 
Which are pubescent at the e very base ; ligules 0, junetion of blade 
and dima glabrous inside ; blades linear from a searcely narrowed 
base, tapering to an acute point, 3-8 in. by 3-6 lin., flat, subflaccid, 
gl abr Tous, more or less glaucous, smooth above, acaberalous below, 
particularly towards the tip, margins finely oe scabrid to 
a mos st smooth, midr ‘ib narrow; panicle erect, — or flexuous, 
"ppermost, the lower 1-21 in 
simple or subsimple, subsecund, sessile false spikes; rhachis 
triquetrous, seabrid, coarsely bristly, ne ag near the nodes; 
pedicels fascicled or 2-nate e, very shor up to 3 lin. long, seabrid, 
ellipsoid, cuspidate, 1 23 lin. long, ae or tinged with purple ; 
lower glame membra ous, very broadly ovate, clasping at the base, 
obtuse to subeuspidate, + lin, long, 5-nerved, scaberulous ; upper 
