422 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Setaria. 
River and St. Johns River, 1C0C—2000 ft., Drége ; in woods and on rocks along 
the ‘aeleee River, Drege ; between Hi Umiata River and he eigal layer, 
and between the Umtenta River and Umzimkulu River, Drége. 
Warcnistont tropical Africa and America. 
2. S. lindenbergiana (Stapf) ; Shoes. culms erect, simple or 
branched near the base, slender, 2-3 ft. long, glabrous or pubescent 
and sometimes with long soft hairs near the stats, 5- or more-noded 
with the lower internodes short and enclosed when simple; branches 
few-noded ; sheaths tight, keeled above, striate, glabrous or hairy to 
hirsute, lower firm, persistent, often strongly compressed ; ligule a 
base, tapering to a fine point, 3-12 in. by 13-6 wr closely plicately 
folded when young, at length opening out (folds 8-12), usually 
glabrous, seaberulous above ; “panicle linear to ish usually almost 
spike- like, often interrupted or lobed, dense or lax, 2-6 in. long ; axis 
angular, pubescent ; branches alternate or irregularly nA IN 
2-12 lin. long, filiform, wavy, puberulous, simple or divided from 
near the ‘base; bristles solitary, fine, scaberulous, wavy, 1—5 lin. long, 
terminating the branches and branchlets, or sometimes in fascicles at 
the base of the branches or solitary at the base of the lower spikelets ; 
pedicels very short, tips discoid; spikelets ovate-oblong, acute, 1-1} 
lin. long, glabrous, light green or tinged with purple ; ‘glumes meli- 
branous, broadly ovate, obtuse, lower 5- to sub-7-nerved, rather less 
than } as long as the spikelet, upper 7-nerved, equalling ‘about = the 
wrinkled ; anthers } in. long. Panicum lindenbergiaram, Nees 
A aa Austr. 47; Se vogg Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 49; Durand & Schinz, 
nsp. Fl. Afr. 
yee AFRICA: eon exact yaad ati ai ! ent 
Coast Resion: Bathurst Div lee guar Blue Kra <* Robber Station,’ 
Burchell, 3890! etween Port Alf ed and “Kali Drift, ‘archl, 3859 ! Alby 
Div.; im shrubberies near Cirahamstown, 2 Fes, MacOwan, 12 
has Berg, Ecklon 
Grabamstown and Bothas ; Lower Albany ; Glenfilling, Driye ! 
Alexandria Div.; Enon, by “the river in Sta Pon thickets, hati ! Fort 
eaufort Div.; grassy hills near Katriver Poo 00 ft., Drége! Queenstown 
Div. ; a t Kei River, Ecklon British Katrari, ag 3356! Komgha Div. ; 
borders pala near Koingt mS nagae, 947! 
CE med Reeion: A cing iv. ; with ut precise locality, Cooper, 335 
aaY Cone REGion: Orange ibe State, without precise locality, ee 
Bas sTERN ReGIon: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 1419! in shady woods by the 
Umgeni River, Krauss, 130! 
Also in tropical East Atrica. 
3. S. sppendiculata (Stapf) ; perennial ; culms erect, “— about 
1 ft. long, glabrous; densely sheathed belo ow ; leaves glabro ower 
sheaths subcom pressed ; igules short, ciliate ; ’ blades ifaeap inciowolade 
from a deeply and acutely sagittate base, with subulate lobes, acuml- 
