418 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Awonopus. 
membranous, 5-nerved, mucronulate or muticous, submarginal 
nerves densely villous or ciliate. Valves subequal, lower resembling 
the upper glume, shortly or scantily villous or glabrous, upper 
chartaceous, glabrous or scantily ciliate, 5-nerved, produced into a 
mucro or short awn. Pa/es dissimilar, of the lower floret very short, 
Styles distinct ; stigmas laterally exserted. Grain enclosed by the 
rigid valve and pale oblong, plano-convex ; embryo about } the 
length of the grain ; hilum basal, punctiform 
Annual or perennial, of various "beg blades flat or convolute ; ligules 
membranous, ciliate, or reduced to a ciliate rim; panicles eta of digitate 
or more or less whorled, slender or steak, ph spike-like ra ra 
Species 3; one from South Africa and the vs ety 3 Islands to India and 
Phe soy one in the Indo-Malayan Raye Me third (A. paniculatus, Stapf = 
Urochloa paniculata, Benth.) in et 
7 Sir Joseph Hooker cr Brit. Ind. vii. 63). This peo was made the type of a 
new genus Coridochloa = Nees in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. xv. 381, in 1833, 
~ whilst he founded oe va cies described below another new genus, Bluffia, m 
pages . Ind. Sem. Hort amb. 1835. This eaebarle small genus approaches 
n the _ hand the Thchachae group of Digitaria, and on the other hand, 
er 
a Bi eeaiindv (Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 64) var. Ecklonii 
(Stapf) ; perennial, compactly tufted; culms erect, 1-3 ft. long, 
glabrous, or more or less hairy, usually 2-noded with the uppermost 
internode long exserted ; sheaths strongly striate, rather tight, more 
or less hairy, lowest fugaciously tomentose, firm, persistent ; ligules 
very short, truncate; blades linear ghey a slightly or distinctly 
narrowed base, acute, 3-12 in. by 2-3 lin., flat, firm, rigid, strongly 
and closely nerved, softly hirsute with tubercle-based hairs ; 
racemes 2-5, digitate or subdigitate, haar 
stout and dense, often subsecund, 1}— Fs < One rarely oe 
“hn J 
Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. ii. 447. Panicum semialatum, v4t- 
ecklonianum, Hack. ex Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. Vv me 
Coast Recion: Alexandria Div. ; Zaurberg Range, 2000-3000 ft., Drege; 
Batharst Div. ; between Blue ‘Kensks and Kaffir Drift, Burchell, wash, * Albany 
