408 GRAMINE (Stapf). { Panicum. 
- then opening out from the top downwards, up to 1 ft. or 
re by $ t. 5 ; rhachis angular, often sparsely pee smooth ‘alow 
1 ft. long; branchlets long, finely filiform to ss at length 
Exreeenh, seabrid ; pedicels very unequal, from + lin, more than 
2 in. long, capillary, very scabrid, tips subclavate ; sikelats ae 
to lanceolate-oblon ng, acu minate, from less than 1 to 1+ lin, lon 
lower Anite reduced to the valve, which very much resembles the 
upper e; ¢ floret oblong, subacute, 3-2 lin, long, very smooth, 
reach ‘Alen ; gy faintly 7-nerved; Anthers 1 lin. long. 
Host, Gram. Austr. iv. t. 16; Kunth, Enum. i. 114 ; ; ‘Trin. Pan. 
Gen. 203, and in Mim. Acad. Pétersb. sér. vi. lii, 291 ; Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i 
sokaanant heaee: Orange Free State; without precise locality, Cooper, 
A native of North America ; introduced elsewhere. 
miliare (Lam. Illustr. i. 173); annual; culms erect or 
geniculate, 1-3 ft. song glabrous, 3-5- noded, usually with flowering 
b es from some of the nodes; leaves glabrous, very rarely more 
or in pa with tuberele-based hairs; sheaths loose, strongly 
striate, smooth, longer or F shorter than the internodes ; ligules very 
pound, lax or ae 1-1 ft. long; axis slender, striate, smooth; 
branches alternate, 2- or 3-nate, the spit Sys distant, filiform, 
angular, seabernlous, the longest 21 t than 6 in. long, un- 
va seeiie ly 0 late api — or minate, 1 to almost } the 
pallid or ineownishe valve siiriaonita, 7. -ne at anthers } ‘lin long. 
Kunth, Enum. 104; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 39; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 78 Dare nd & Schinz, Conep. Fl. Afr. v.54; Hovk. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. ¥ 
<a bom Natal; between Umzimkulu and Umkomanzi River, 
Commonly cultivated all over ingite son a possibly originated from P. psilopodium, 
Trin., an equally common Indiay 
