404 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
Glum. i. 75; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 767; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pj. Ost-Afr. A. 31, C. 19s....F. numidianum, Nees, Fi. 
Afr. Austr. 33, not Lam. P. corymbiferum, Steud l.c. 76; Durand 
& Schinz, lc. 744. P. pubivaginatum, K. Schum. in Engl. le. 
C. 102. 
Soutu Arrica: without precise locality, Thunberg! Zeyher, 451! 4455! 
Mund and Maire! gam le ! 
Coast Region: Riversdale Div.; near the Vet Rag hiss Gill! Uitenhage 
Div.; near the Zwar ee River, Ecklon & Zeyher! and without precise 
locality, Alewander ! nase ria Div. ; near the eet River in the Zuurberg 
Range, Drége! Bathurst Div. ; near — Alfred, Hutton, 55! Albany Div. ; 
in wet places by streamlets near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1311! Fort peaahers 
Div.; Ri a 7? bel uae British Kaffraria, ny oper 
Crn : Somerset’ Div.; near os we Riv , Burchelly 2956 ! 
near the “Blyde ‘River, Burchell, 2977! Gra t Div. ; the Sunda ay 
00-2000 ft , Drege 
River, 15 between Kruid opening a Mi ik vie, Burchell, 
2946 ! 
STERN REGION: Pondoland; between the Umtata River and su Johns 
River, Drége! Natal; by streamlets near mer ior Buchanan, 2652! Ubabi, 
Sutherland ! near Durban, Williamson, 17! 18! and without tte locality, 
Gerrard, 483! Cooper, 3342! Buchanan, 265! 
Also in tropical East Africa. 
ed grass is very variable with respect to hairiness and the length of the 
pedice 
P. maximum (Jacq. I . Rar. i. 2, t. 13; Collect. i. 76); 
perennial (sometimes res sa co first year ?), tufted ; innovation 
s erect 
inear to lanceolate-linear from a contracted and rounded or attenuate 
base, long tapering to a fine (sometimes wage and filiform) point, 
3-2 ft. by 2-8 lin., rarely broader; flat, minutely tomentose at the 
junction with the blade, midrib rathe er heii whitish ; panials erect 
or nodding, contracted or effuse and lax, decompound, from 3 to over 
1 ft. long; axis slender, angular, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous 
above ; lower branches whorled, suberect or spreading, rather ee 
ivide 
1-2} in,, filiform, seaberulous above, smooth below, glabrous except 
at the often minutely tomentose or pubescent eallous base ; icel 
fascicled, 3-2-nate or the upper solitary, very unequal, very short to 
several times longer than the spikelet, capillary, flexuous, scabrid ; 
spikelets oblong, subobtuse or obtuse, somewhat turgid, 14-1} lin. 
" glabrous, Tar rarely 
puberulous ; lower glume rounded, 1— lin. long, subhyaline, faintly 
3-nerved to nerveless, upper oblong, acute or obtuse, 12—14 lin. long; 
membranous, 5- nerved ; lower floret g, valve very similar d 
