Panicum. | GRAMINER (Stapf). 415 
glabrous or sparsely hairy ai the base, smooth, margins scabe- 
rulous ; panicle erect, contracted and linear, or open and ovate, 1-3 in. 
long; axis slender, sa branches _ arranged, rather 
distant, not very numerous, the lower up to 12 in. long, loosely 
divided almost from the base, subcapillary, smooth ; lateral pedicels 
very short and fine, tips discoid; spikelets curv ved, semi-ovate to 
suboblong, aeute or obtuse, 1-12 lin. long, green, strongly nerved ; 
lower glume very minute, broadly ovate to orbicular, nerveless ; 
upper sr oage the spikelet, very concave, gibbous below, strongly 
curved, acute or obtuse, membranous, 9-ribbed ; lower floret ba arren ; 
valve oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse, straight, oe -~ lower 
glume, herbaceous on the sides and at the “tip, nerve floret 
elliptic-oblong, acute, * lin. long, strongly convex ; valve ausiteces 
very obscurely 5-nerved ; anthers lin. long. Kunth, Enum. i. T; 
Nees, ‘ tee Austr. 50 (excl. syn.) ; Dur anil g Shine, Megic Fi. 
Afr. v ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. ke fe te 
Brit. Sar vit. 42. P. curvatum, var. tenellum, nae ie: ia. 
er syn. Roxb. & sage rg! ‘coryophorum, Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 
107 ; Enum. i. 88; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 67; Durand & 
Schima’ le. 744, 
N Reoton: Natal; between Umzimkulu River and Umko 
River, Drége, 4252! Coastla nd, see pe i near Durban, Williamson, 30! 
and without precise locality, Gerrard, 47 
Also in the Mascarene Islands and in South India. 
nei known a 
ae elev (Link, Hort. Berol. ii. 215); culms often 
branched, up to 2 ft. long; ‘sities elabrons, striate ; blades long, 
scarcely more ties 3 lin. “broad, very finely an softly pu bescent ; 
panicle elongate, slender, nodding, emda seantily divided ; » spikelets 
about 1 lin. lon ng, glabrous; glumes acute, lower 4 the ‘len gth of 
upper, this and the lower valve acute, many-nerved.” 
Raised in the ae Botanic Gardens from seeds stated to have been received 
from the Cape of Hope. 
40. P. yieatalaa' (Bory ex sh Agrost. Bras. 236) is in- 
oes for the Cape Colony in Durand & “Schinz, pee Fl, Afr. 
and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 14; but this is 
aunts a slip, as Marloth’s specimens quoted under that name are 
referred to P. madagascariense, var. minus, Hack. I have not seen 
P. lycopodioides from the African continent. 
XV. OPLISMENUS, Linn. 
Spikelets —. to oblong, awned from the glumes, falling 
a from the pedicels, in small clusters or in spicate more or less 
cund racemes alon common axis. Lower floret ¢ or barren, 
umes ‘ Glum nes similar, more or less subequal, herbaceous to 
membranous, 3—7-nerved, both or at least the lower awned. Lower 
valve resembling the upper glume, 5-9-nerved, muticous or very 
