Panicum.} GRAMINEHX (Stapf). 411 
without 1-2 short side-nerves on each side; upper glume ovate- 
oblong, acute or subacute, 1 to almost 12 lin, long, distinctly T- 
nerved ; lower floret ¢; valve like the upper glume, 9-nerved ; pale 
oblong, obtuse ; ¢ floret elliptic, subacute, 1 lin. ong, smoo " 
shining, yellowish, in 7-nerved ; he ers as lin. ong. 
P. coloratum, va in Linne a, i. 274; var. capense, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. dole ri Durand & Sahar, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
lng 
R. B, “ompeory (Stapf); taller blades ara flat and less rigid or sometimes 
Pa ten 1-2 lin. broad ; D 
lower branches 463 in. long. P. pee m, mee, y, in part, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
38*, coloratum, rar. glaucum, Hock, in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 399 ; Durand Ff 
Schinz, ‘Ooen. Fil, Afr. v. 743, 
Coast Rzcion : Uite enhage Div.; without 2 gemee locality, Ecklon ¥ Zeyher, 
478! “tired Div.; by the e gore River, r Komgha, Flanagan, 949 ! 
Var, 8: Bathurst t Div.; Port Alfred, Hutton ! Alba we Div. ; in grassy places near 
Grahamstown, 2000 tt., tishet. 514! aBCS) Queenstown, Div.; Finchams 
Nek, ag Queenstown, 4000 tt. , Galpin, 2375 
CENTRAL Region: Richmond Div. ; Secbus Veld, Limon Fontein and Gre 
Tafelberg, 3000-4000 ft., Drége! Var. B: aia et Div., Bowker, 182! rn pa 
lv.; Wonderhe uvel, 4000-5000 ft., Drége! 
- rag mens REGION: Little Mawijaages: near Verlaptpraam, by the Orange 
iver, 
——- HARI ReGion: Orange Free State; = the re —_ Burke, 424! 
tT. 8: Griqu plana We St, ome saat, betw u Griqua Tow Graaff Reinet, 
eiltivated specimen, Burchell, seed, 19! p ne vii Griqua Town, sg 1843 ! 
along the Vaal River, Burch, 1779! between Griqua Tov itte ria 
Burchell, 1979 ! and between Witte Water and Riet seen, Bursa il, 2005 ! 
places decay Kimberley, 4000 ft., Marloth, 862! Bechuanaland ; stony hike near 
Kuroman, Mutoh, 1519 ! Groot Knil Fontein, 3900 ft., Marloth, 992"! Transvaal ; 
near cme din nesb urg, #. 
Nees quotes his P. co oratum also from the eraatedie 3 noma : Tulbagh 
Waterfall (alba Div 135 ‘beiewoen the Coega River and t as ay River, and 
v 
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r ausdo 
Div.) ; but as e has mixed up not less than 3 species under this ee. these 
determinations pa doubtful. 
The densel ly-tufted he and the very narrow blades distinguish this species 
from P. coloraty um, Lin: 
ler, ’ 
+ ft. long glabrous terete, with about 2 exserted nodes; petites 
mostly ero wded at the base; sheaths tight, striate, ciliate, ant 
usually villous at ‘the junction with the blade, otherwise glabrous or 
ie ingly and softly hairy, the lower very firm, fugaciously | perenne 
1 s Persistent ; ligulea minutely ciliate rim ; es 0 a 
linear, gradually passing into and often distinetly narrowed iow 
© sheath, tapering to a fine point, 5-14 -2 lin., erect, 
le ae — pen. sometimes flat, rigid, glabrous except the more or 
: T villo 
re o 
1 ched, oblong, 4—8 in. long ; axis slender, scaberulous ; branches 
Ly ilary,:2- ur. 3-nate or. irregular approximate, the longest 2-3) in. 
"8, and undivided for 3-1} in., then laxly branched, Sliform, 
