400 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
flexuous, smooth ; pedicels 4~1 lin. long, tips subcupular ; spikelets 
oblong, acute to subacuminate, about 1a ‘lin. long, greenish, glabrous 
or pubesce nt, prominently nerved ; lower glume oblong, subobtuse, 
very slightly shorter than the upper, 5-nerved, margins and tip 
hyaline; upper glume similar, broader, subacuminate, 7-nerved; 
m 
5-nerved ; pale 2 the length of the valve; ¢ floret oblong, | acute or 
subacuminate, 1-12 lin. long, yellowish; valve subcoriaceous, 5 -nerved, 
smooth ; anthers over z lin. long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 79; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 740 (both in part). 
KALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5731! 
Eastern Reeion: Natal; Po ndoland ; between St. Johns River and 
Umtsikaba River, in swampy places, below 1000 ft. , Drége ! and near Umpumulo, 
2000-2500 ft., Buchanan, 260! 
18. P. perlaxum (Stapf); perennial; rhizome slender; culms sub- 
erect or ascending, very slonde er, 1-2 ft. long, more or less branched, 5- 
to many-noded, glabrous, internodes mostly exserted ; leaves capes 
or hairy; shoathe thin, ‘eixinbe > ligule an obscure, ‘minutely ¢ ciliate 
rim ; blades linear to linear- lanceolate from a suddenly contracted, 
i 3h 
4—l-spiculate, or remotely and s sparing gly divided, with long 2-3- 
spiculate branchlets, finely filiform to capillary, flexuous, smooth ; 
lateral pedicels 3-1 in. long, tips cupular; spikelets oblong, acute 
prominently nerved ; glumes thinly herbaceous, equal, 13-2 lin. long, 
the lower narrow, oblong, acute or subacute, 7-B-nerved 3 upper 
ovate-oblong, ome: very concave 7- to sub-9-nerved; lower floret 
barren; valve similar to the upper che, but slightly shorter and 
dent or 7- Gavel near the tip, subhyaline along the middle; 
% the length of the valve or more; ¢ floret oblon 
subsctinkinate, equalling the lower or a very little shorter, yellowish ; 
valve coriaceous, smooth, 5-nerved; anthers % lin. long. P. equt- 
nerve, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 40 (in part). 
Coast Ree@ion: Albany Div.; Coldspring near Grahamstown, Flanagan, 766 
Recion: Tembuland ; near Morley, 1000-2000 ft., Drege ! iatal; 
coastland, Sutherland ! 
19. P. chusqueoides (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 377); 
perennial ; culms divaricately branched, rambling, spre slender, 2 ft. 
long, glabrous, many-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths very tight, 
terete, glabrous or ciliate along the margins, sometimes scantily 
dotted with tubercles ; ligules very short, truncate, obscurely ciliate ; 
finely nerved, glabrous, smooth, margins scabrid; panicle up to 5 in. 
ong, consisting of 3-5 distant, suberect or spreading, glabrous, 
