Panicum. } GRAMINEE (Stapf). 401 
filiform angular branches, which are up to 2 in. long and bear 
spikelets from 1-8 lin. above the base ; pedicels oom or 2-nate, 
: : to 
herbaceous, ceded cSpaiae ea 1i- 13 lin. ines - to sub-9-nerved ; 
lower floret barren ; valve equal and very similar to the upper glume, 
but 5-nerved; pale subequal ; 3 floret oblong, subapiculate, slightly 
shorter than the lower; valve cori prion transversely wrinkled, 
d-nerved, light green or yellowish ; anthers 3 lin. long 
Eastern Region: Natal; near Durban, jualiceobil, 8618! Williamson, 11! 
alo 
short, eae, giloleta. - ; blades linear-lanceolate from a contraeted 
base, tapering to a fine point, 1-2 in ni 13-3 lin., flat, very thin, 
with some long fine hairs near th be margins serrulate- meres 
ve ume, 5-nerved ; pale 
subequal; anthers 1~2 lin. lo ong; ¢ floret oblong, acute, yellowish, 
12 lin. long ; valve coriaceous, very finely transversely wrinkled, 
rved. 
OAST — : Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, in shady places by 
oe Dreg 
sang is drawn up from specimens in Drage’ s herbarium at Liibeck. 
They belong to the — mer ee gests d by Nee * Panicr SPUneh, Gee: 
cCumbenti affinis ? a no P. diffusu Fi, ‘Afr. Austr. $2), and are 
identical Solera i eutlaes ts in rhe same Mahi: collected by Ecklon & Zeyher, 
but wit  ecdinaiiaie of the locality. These latter are possibly (at least partly) 
ees ; ; t Indian plant, 
of which, Thave not seen any examples from South Africa, Nees says they were 
srilected i in Uitenhage feat "by “the Zwartkops River and in the primeval forest 
of the Krakakuma Mou 
21. P. laticomum (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 43); perennial, culms 
ascending, divided above the base into somewhat spreading long 
leafy flow wering lecneban, slender, 2. ft. long, premnng# hairy or 
glabrous, many-noded, intebooiling 6 xserted; sheaths tight, thin, 
triate, hairy, often with tubercle ii d hairs or glabrescent except 
* the: eens and near the junction with the blade ; ligule a a or 
