414 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Panicum. 
about 2 the length of the valve, hyaline; ¢ floret, oblong, obtuse, 
whitish or yellowish, 1-14 lin, long ; valve chartaceons, obscurely 
5-nerved ; anthers 2 lin. long. Kunth, Enum. i. 87 ; &, Bhs, AS¥: 
Austr. 51; Steud. Syn. Pl. “pers 9 66; Durand § Sihine, Consp. 
Fl. Afr. v. 751; Hook. f. Fl. Ind. v ii. 40, uliginosum, 
» 34; 
Roth, Noo. Fi. Spec. 4 e. cea ee Kunth, es Gram. i 
Enum. i. 88; Steud. l.c. 66. 
EASTERN REGION: aad in stagnant water near Durban, Drége, 4709! 
Durban Flat, Wood, 3589 
Throughout tropical Africa and India to South China and Malaya. 
his species is meng referred to the — a dmg the type of “! 
” en OP. 
is the South Americ Mywrus, Lam. reduced it 
Myurus. But they yen! as an sag kee apes very different ee 
s, Lam., its im allies, which form the section Hymenachne, 
have very narrow and very iistdie? marae sp ikelets with a 5-nerved upper glume 
and a 5-nerved lower valy eb _ csiet least the lower) of the very com- 
divided, even in those species 
pound panicle are long or very long, a 
where they are contracted into a ayinuiris false spike. 
37. P. typhurum (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted ; culms erect, slender, 
2~3 ft. long, glabrous, 3- noded, uppermost internode long exserted, 
er 
smooth, up to 3 lin. long, divided from the base or reduced t 
fascicles of disc-tipped pedicels ; spikelets ovoid, turgid, slightly 
oblique and often eurved, acute to subacuminate, 1 lin. long, dull 
purplish, giabrons or hairy; glumes membranous, lower broadly 
ovate, acute, 3 the length of the spikelet, 3- to sub-5-nerved ; uppe 
ovate, curved, very concave, 7—9-ribbed ; — floret ¢ ; valve like 
the upper clume, but less concave an d eu a ; pale a about 3 3 the 
long; ¢ floret 
ovate- oblong, acute, 2 lin. ‘long, whitish or lt esr a char- 
taceous, obscurely 5-nerved. 
oe Region: Transvaal; Naboon Fontein, on the Nylstroom River, 
Nelson, 74* 
Also in the Manganja Hills, Nyasaland. 
38. P. curvatum (Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 732); perennial ; 
culms ascending from a decumbent or rambling base, very slender, 
many-noded, glabrous, internodes ex Sater: sheaths tight, striate, 
ciliate along the margins, otherwise glabrous or sparsely y; ligule 
a very narrow, minutely ciliolate rim ; blades more or less spreading: 
linear to linear-lanceolate from a strongly and meee conse 
base tapering to an acute point, 2-4 in. by 2~3 lin,, flat, t 
