406 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
than long, clasping, very obtuse or subacuminate, 3-1 lin. long; 
upper glume thin, subherbaceous, oblong, obtuse, slightly over 1 lia. 
long, 7-9-nerv ed; lower floret ¢ ; mate like the upper glume, 
9-nerved ; pale subequal to the valve; anthers} lin. long; ¢@ floret 
elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin, long, whitish, quite smooth ; valve 
Nl 5-nerved ; grain ner obtuse 
Katanari Reaion: Transvaal; Donker ock, ae 6552! Hooge Veld, 
Naeweci "Porter aud Trigaards ‘Bass tein, sens 614! Pretoria, at udus 
ere t, Rehmann, 4697! Bosh Veld, between Blands River and Klippan, Rehmann, 
26. P. meyerianum (Nees, Fl. Afr, Austr. 32); perennial ; 
culms ascending from a decumbent branched rooting base (always 4), 
rather stout, 2— 3 ft. long, terete, glabrous, 5- to many-noded, sheathed 
all along or the upper 1-2 internodes exserted ; leaves more or less 
glaucous; sheaths rather loose, glabrous, except at the pubescent 
nodes, or with scattered tubsrele- based hairs; ligule a fringe of very 
short hairs ; blades linear-lanceolate from a rounded contracted base, 
long tapering to a tine point, 4-8 in. by 3-6 lin., glabrous except at 
the re aed villous junction with the sheath ; panicle subpyramidal, 
3-6 in. long, up to 4 in. wide; axis very sle nder, angular, glabrous 
or pubescent below the nodes, angles scaberulous at least in the upper 
part ; branches usually obliquely spreading, scattered or the lower 
opposite or subopposite, the upper simple or subsimple, racemose ; 
the lower distantly branched almost from the finely tomentose base, 
more or less secund, filiform, scaberulous, the lowest up to 3 in. 
, ovate-oblong, acute to subacuminate, 12 lin. long, 
pipheous, glaucous, contracted at the base into a very short stalk ; 
ower glume minute, truncate or ee hyaline, white or purplish ; 
upper membranous, oblong, acute to subacuminate, faintly 5-nerved ; 
lower floret ¢; bh gh like the upper glume ; pale equal to the valve, 
seri, ie anthers + ‘lin. lon ng ; 4 floret et obtuse or oe 
Fas GION: Natal near the Umzimkulu River, Drége! banks of the 
Tugela River, Duckie 266! 
so in tropical Ara The Abyssinian P. sehimperianwm, Hochst. ex A. 
Rich., is hardly sce distinet. 
spongy below. w, a out . ‘long, nn veg smooth, sonaasstionbel 
sheathed all along, or the bd internodes pole su rls 
