412 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
scabrid, branchlets subcapillary or score pedicels solitary or 
2-nate, peg , the longer often 3-5 lin. long, capillary, 
seabrid, tips subcupular ; apioliets eden obliquely ovoid and 
obliquely acuminate, slightly over 1 lin. long, greenish or more or 
less purplish, gaping, prominently nerved; glumes similar, almost 
boat-shaped, ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or subacuminate ; ; lower 
about 1—8 the length of the spikelet, often mucronulate, 5—7-nerved ; 
upper equalling the spikelet, 7-nerved ; lower floret ¢ ; valve very 
similar to the upper glume, 5-nerved; pale equal to the valve, 
oblong, subaeute, flaps very broad at the base; anthers }—} lin. 
long; ¢ floret t oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long, smooth, shinin 
yellowish, tips sometimes’ purplish ; valve ‘subcoriaceous, very faintly 
5-7-nerved. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 87; Durand g Schinz, Consp. 
48, 
SoutH paket : without precise em Drege, 4266! 4278! 4279! 
KatanHari Region : Transvaal ; aan rton, Umlomati Valley, 4000 ft., Galpin, 
1362! = he og Poort, Nelson, 14 
TERN REGION ar atal; at aa mouth of the biargeeeny: River, Drége ; 
between the Umtentu and the Umzimkulu Rivers, Drége ! near Durbau, Drége / 
M’ Ken, 133! W petals 25! Ingone, Sutherland ! and without precise s loculity,, 
Buchanan, 117! ! Gerrard, 477! 
Also in eal 
34. P. natalense ate in Flora, 1846, 113); perennial; com- 
pactly tufted, whole plant glabrous; cu ulms erect, slender, wiry, 
4-1} ft. long, 1-2-noded, pesca internode usually long exserted ; 
leaves crowded ‘n ear the ‘base ; sheaths terete, tight, firm, “the lowest 
persistent ; ligule an obseurely ciliolate rim; blades filiform, % to 
over 1 ft. long, $—1 lin. thiek, terete, acute, canaliculate, wiry, 
flexuous, Nye rarely partly flat, swnely noreee and sometimes 
in 
ci css more or stn obtuse, 5-nerved ; lower floret gd; val) 
like the glumes; pale subequal to the valve; anthers 3-2 lin 
mooth ; valve coriaceous, faintly 5-nerved. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
i 88; Durand § Sehinn Consp. Fl. wads v. 756. 
KatanaRt ReGion toland ; prec ocality, 920! 
Tran eae Hou shee, & Rehmann, 3690! § eciak Rabkin: fis the Stee ‘ Poort River, 
Nelson, gl*! Keeron River, Nelson, 47*! between Middelburg and the rocodile 
ug et ~ ms, 1666! 
w Region: ee priestess 4000 ft., Baur, | 1152 Natal, 
Novelo ‘ills, 7000 ft., Sutherland! margins of woods near the Umlazi River, 
= i. 188 | Inanda, Wood: 1592! and without precise locality, Buchana”, 
3! 258! 
