402 GRAMINE (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
ciliolate rim; blades aptpading, paencie from a rounded _ base, 
acutely acuminate, 11-3 in. by 3-1 in, flat, very thin, sparingly and 
fi » Margins seabrid ; panic erect, very lax, delicately 
and divaricately branched, about } ft. long; axis filiform, terete 
an o low, angular and fin scabrid ve; branches 
in fascicles of 4-2 or solitary, unequal, at length spreading, finely 
filiform to capillary, very laxly divided, often from 1-2 in. above 
the base ; branchlets and pedicels extremely fine, scaberulous, lateral 
pedicels "1-4 lin, long, tips scarcely thickened; spikelets oblong, 
acute at both ends, slightly more than 1 lin. long, glabrous, green ; 
ginmes very thinly rai deonepane lower broadly ovate, subobtuse, 
2 lin. long, 3-nerved ; upper glume somewhat remote from the lower, 
oblong, acute, a almost 1 lin. ond 5-nerved, middle nerve scaberulous 
above ; ; lower floret barren; valve like the upper glume, but slightly 
longer; pale + the length of the valve; ¢ floret oblong, obliquely 
apiculate or acute, equalling or slightly exceeding the uppe r glume; 
valve subeoriaceous, whitish, faintly 5-nerved; anthers } lin. —— 
grain obovoid, 2 lin oe ‘white. Stew. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 84; 
Durand & Sehin, pens Fl. Afr. v. 752; K. Schum. in “Engl 
Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
STERN Recion: Natal; ady woods r Durban, Drége, 4289! Coast- 
land, Sutherland ! and without re loeality, ‘Cereard. 89! 
The fruiting florets often separate from the remainder of the spikelet, which 
remains for a while attached to the pedicel, oh falls at length as a whole. The 
habit is not unlike that of Isachne albens, 
22. P. zizanioides (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. i. 100) ; peren- 
nial; culms rather slender, oy aseending from an often long 
prostrate and rooting base, up to 8 ft. long and to 2-4 ft. high, 
glabrous, many-n ed, more or less branched ; sheaths rather tight or 
the lower loose and — striate, ~h e or finely hairy to 
lanceolate, rarely linear, from a nded auricled cordate base, 
acuminate or pane apering to an acute point, 3-7 y 1-lin., 
