Panicum] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 413 
. 85. P, Ecklonii (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 43); perennial; com- 
pactly tufted, innovation shoots intravaginal; culms erect, very 
slender, 1-12 ft. long, glabrous, 1-noded, in. above the base, 
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hairs; sheaths. tight, shortly bearded at the nodes and often at the 
or the lowest 2-nate, suberect, loosely divided almost from the 
base or from 3~} in. above it, ultimate branchlets 4—1-spiculate, 
capillary, flexuous ; pedicels 1-4 lin. long, tips subclavate ; spikelets 
oblong, obtuse, 11-11 lin. long, erect, glabrous, pallid or tinged with 
purple; glumes herbaceously-membranous, nerves running out into 
teeth ; lower broad, ovate, 2-1 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved 
and 3-toothed ; upper glume oblong, 3—5-toothed, 5-nerved, equalling 
3 to 4 the length of the spikelet ; lower floret barren, reduced to the 
valve which is similar to the upper glume and 1} lin. long; ¢ floret 
oblong, acute, equalling the lower floret ; valve subcoriaceous, white 
or yellowish or purplish towards the minutely hairy, subrostrate tip, 
7 -herved ; anthers 1lin. long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 87; Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 748. 
oor RuGton ; Albany Div.; Grahamstown, 2000 ft., McOwan, 1016! 
K agan, 760! and without precise locality, Williamson ! Stockenstrom .5 
“triviers Berg, above the wood-zone, Ecklon; Kat Berg, 4500-5000 ft., in 
marshy places, Drége! King Williamstown Div. ; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 
' Komgha Div., near Komgha, Flanagan, 939 ! 
Katawarr Recion: Orange Free State ; without precise locality, Cooper, 917! 
» ASTERN ReGion: Tembuland; Bazeia Mountains, Baur, 751! Griy 
ast, grassy places at the foot of the Zuur Bergen, 350u ft., Tyson, 1868! 
aap allied to P. pectinatum, Rendle, from Nyasaland which has different 
nd glandular pedicels. 
36. z. interruptum (Willd. Sp, Plant. i. 341); perennial ; culms 
ascending from a creeping, rooting base, 3—5 ft. high, stout, very 
Spongy, internodes mostly exserted ; leaves glabrous ; sheaths loose, 
f ‘i ined, the submerged sometimes spreading, 
shaper and bladeless; ligules membranous, truncate, up to 1 lin. 
‘ 3-95 lin.; axis stout, sulcate, smooth ; branches spirally 
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long, divided from the base or reduced to fascicles of dise-tipped 
cu cels 5 spikelets oblong, acute or subacute, sometimes slightly 
es 17-2 lin. long, us, olive-green with dark tips; lower 
| ra hyaline, almost orbicular, 4-1 the length of the spikelet, finely 
9-n “nerved ; upper herbaceous-membranous, oblong, prominently 
*tved ; lower floret barren; valve like the upper glume; pale 
