Panicum] GRAMINE& (Stapf), 407 
up to 1 ft. by 2-4 lin., flat, smooth below, very scabrid above, some- 
— Hohe a few fine hairs , midrib w itish ; panicle erect or nodding, 
d und, narrow or rather open, ~_ 10-14 in. long ; axis 
partly solitary of the lower 3—4-nate at very unequa yaconzemnd the 
longest 6-10 in. long, undivided for 1-2 in. from the base, remotely 
branched, filiform, subflexuous and, like the very fine Penawleth 
angular and usually very paeal ne ; pedicels at 2-nate, unequa ual, 
suberect, the longer up to 22 lin. long, tips slightly thickened ; 
spikelets oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, scare ely 
compressed, 14 lin. long, greenish ; lower glume hyaline, whitish, 
— clasping at the base, truncate, 3-2 lin, long, obseurely 3—5- 
n glume thinly membranous below, oblong to oblong- 
esetlate, acute to subacuminate, 11 lin. long, prominently 7-9- 
8 3 e ret barren; valve like the r pale 
oblong, subacute, 2-keeled, 1 lin. long; ¢ floret narrowly oblong, 
cut t in, long, smooth, shining, yellowish; vat ub- 
coriaceous, onic anthers iy lin. long; grain over } lin. long, 
white. P. paludosum, Nees, Afr. Austr. 35; Durand Y Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 758, not hid. 
Var. y ae eter (Stapf) ; culms subsimple or paragon branched ;_ blades 
~9 in. b 4 lin,; panicle 3-9 in. long, stiff; axis, and branchlets 
in. lo 
a sb. gs wy. iil, 
Sourn Oa Var. y : without precise lanai. Drége, 4271! 
Coast ReGion: Var, a mgha Div.; by the Kei River, near Komgha 
Flanagan, 953 ! i Div. 3 in caiated erect at Coldspring, near 
mn, 761! 
Var. any 
Grahamstown (introduced », "Fiingan 
Eastern ReGion: Var. 8: N tal, near the Umzimkulu River, Drége/ 
commor near Umpumulo, Buchanan, 267! near Durban, Williamson, 21! 
Var. i ih oceurs also on the River Shire in + pateming whilst var. 
— m is common throughout India in marshes and still w 
polymorphous species inhabiting India, a brasatgi and the Atlantic side 
of don om Maine to the Argentine ; elsewhere very rare and apparently intro- 
ical form occurs only in he Atlante States of North America, 
uced. T 
and is distingeibot by its annual duration, rather low growth, prolific ramitica- 
ae an = “8 oe sg doreer of the spikelets, this. upper glume being 7- and the 
wer on y o-n 
ing branches from some or aa of the nodes, sheathed all along, 
glabrous or hairy below the paniele or nodes; leaves more or less 
(often very copiously) hirsute or villous, rarely subglabrous ; sheaths 
lax ; ligules membranous up to 2 lin, long, eee a linear to 
linear-lanceolate, pe: tapering to a fine ba ng 
te con- 
