Panicum.) GRAMINER (Stapf). 409 
30. P. repens (Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 87); perennial ; rhizome 
long, creeping ; innovation shoots extravaginal, often growing into 
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linear, shortly tapering to a callous point, 23-6 in. by 1}-3 lin., 
usually involute, rarely flat, rigid, spreading, glaucous, glabrous or 
hairy, particularly on the upper surface, margins cartilaginous, smooth 
or adpressedly spinulous and sparingly tubercled near the base ; panicle 
strict, contracted, 3-8 in. long; branches usually erect, solitary or 
2-3-nate, the lower remote and 2-6 in. long, sparingly divided, 
filiform, often wavy, angular, scaberulous ; pedicels usually solitary, 
the lateral about } lin, long, the terminal much longer, scabrid, tips 
subeupular; spikelets ereet, ovate-oblong, acute, 1-13 lin. long, 
glabrous, pallid ; lower glume subhyaline, whitish, very broad, rounded 
or sometimes shortly subacute, 5-3-nerved to nerveless ; upper glume 
thin, membranous, except the firmer tip, 1-14 lin. long, 9~7-nerved ; 
gene finely 7-nerved ; grain white, $ lin. long. Forsk. 
269; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 37; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. | SR 
leiogonum, Delile, Fl. Egypte, 51; Poir. Encycl. iv. 284; Kunth, luc. 
3 Steud. lc. 79; Barbey, Herbor. Levant. t. 8; Aschers. & 
Schweinf. Illustr. Fl. Egypte, 160; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 752. 
: Coast Recon: Clanwilliam Div. ; Wupperthal, 1500-2000 ft., Drége, 2556! 
cklon, Bosch Kloof Valley, Drége, Ecklon. 
yi troushont the Mediterranean Region and India to South China and the 
alayan Archipelago; elsewhere introduced Gf) 
a8 ranous minutely or obscurely ciliate rim; blades linear to 
t ceolate-linear from a usually widened and rounded base, tapering 
° an acute point, 5-8 in. by 2342 lin., flat, suberect, slightly rigid 
vlan netimes flaccid, glabrous or sparsely hairy, glaucous or sub- 
S’aucous, margins smooth or seaberulous, more or less tubercled 
6 j ards the ; icle erect or nodding, lax, 4-9 in. long, up to 
in. broad when fully expanded; axis very slender, smooth, at least 
