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Axonopus. | GRAMINEE (Stapf). 419, 
Div.; Grahamstown, MacOwan! aoe without precise locality, aa rc 
Zeyher, 871! Stockenstrom Div.; grassy places on the Kat Berg, 3 
ft., Drége! leigg oy Ecklon ! ihcalgis Div.; near the mouth of he Kel 
River, apkpiiegs 928 ! 
mgr a ai West, Barkly West Div.; Hebron, on the 
Veal. River, vileon is 
aed “ombatan, near Bazeia, ar Somagt 316! 
Natal; Umpumulo to Riet Vlei, 2000-5000 ft., Bucha ake r Durban, 
Krauss, set Tah, "Wood, 1593! Drakensberg R Rauge at 5 Bolela, 6000-7000 ft., 
Evans, 521! and without precise locality, Gerrar 70 
Also in Tndia, 
The typical form, sei we Bs o R. Brown’s Panicum semialatum, with 
narrow usually co oe a cglabecns or amen blades, generally much 
longer and laxer raceme my on the whole, smaller narrower and nearly always 
light green spikelets, occurs in Australia, Malaya, India, and the Mascareue 
Islands, In India, it passes — var. Ecklonii, and intermediate forms occur also 
in Nyasaland. A curious variation is due to the widening of the submarginal 
nerves of the soe or ae fimbriate and sometimes transversely — and 
very conspicuous wings. common to the type and the variety Ecklonii, and 
ay occur in all the Rie of an inflorescence or only in a limited wea. the 
others being quite normal. 
XVII. SETARIA, Beauv. 
Spikelets ovate to oblong, falling entire from the pedicel, sub- 
e (see Section Ptychophyllum), sub- 
sessile in contracted spike- cies or more or less open panicles. Lower 
0 
Stamens 3. Styles distinct; stigmas laterally exs 
tightly enelosed by the hastened valve and pale, ae or ellipsoid ; 
tn basal, punctiform or orbicular ; embryo about 2 1 as long as 
t 
Perennials or annuals of various habit ; ligules usually reduced to a ciliate rim, 
rarely a s ducin ct membrane ; —— mostly ae gerrtgs ense, with the 
nches 
solitary or clustered spikelets o hich ar ore or less 
produced into bristles beyond th "epkelets - divided ‘nth a one-sided ovristly 
mvolucre at their base, or more or les pen with elongate branches an 
distant spikelets, often with or without subtending bristles in the same 
inflorescence; bristles always persis 
Species es pro gos ich over 40 i hag the warm regions of the world, some common as 
weeds in the m mperate parts 
Chameraphis, R. ioe ae which 0% been Papa err a pecan 
(1812), and for which priority has claimed over Set 
consisting chiefly of Australian species ar well distinguished 4 che “aifferent 
structure of the spikelets. The species of Setaria often very difficult to 
distinguish, tage rly if the specimens are not complete as is often the case in 
those cited below 
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