Setaria. | GRAMINER (Stapf). 423 
nate, sessile, 4—6 in. by 5 lin., scaberulous, margins subundulate, finely 
nerved ; panicle linear, strict, dense, 33-5 in. long; axis glabrous ; 
branches obliquely erect, crowded, 3-6 in. long, fine, glabrous ; bristles 
solitary, shorter (rarely longer than the spikelet 0; pedicels 
pubescent, very short; spikelets 2- ranked, debi brite, ovate, obtuse, 
apiculate, Li in. long , subgibbous, green variegated with purple; glumes 
ovate, obtuse, lower 2 as long as the spikelet, very broad, 3-nerve 
upper equalling the spikelet, 7—9-nerved ; lower floret ¢; valve ovate, 
apiculate, as long as the spikelet, grooved along the middle, 3~ 7. 
nerved ; pale equal to the Pee 3 floret almost as long as the lower, 
elliptic, slightly gibbous ; valve mucronulate, transversely ph 
Panicum appendiculatum, "Wack. i n Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 13. 
pretiay Reeion: Great Namaqualand; by the Onanis pry Pit 63c. 
sagittefolia, Walp., but differing according to Hackel in the 
Py ie -sagittate blades, the short bristles and less ri Mea spikelets. 
nigrirostris (Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 774) ; 
perennial ; rhizome oo oblique, egies culms aneete or sub- 
geniculate, slender, 1 to more than 2 ft. long, compressed, satelite 
and scabrid just below the panicle and italy more or Jess tomentose 
below the nodes, otherwise glabrous and smooth, 1-3-noded, inter- 
nodes usually enclosed except the uppermost ; sheaths tight, firm 
strongly striate, glabrous except on the ciliate margins and tomentose 
nodes, or sparingly hairy, Deen short and fugaciously hairy like the 
innovation bud- ‘cule, very firm, persistent, dark brown ; ligules very 
short, ciliate ; blades iineae to linear-lanceolate, often with a gradu- 
3—4 lin., rather firm, flat or involute, glabrous, smooth or margins 
scaberulous: ; panicle spike-like, cylindric, stout, rather dense, sometimes 
interrupted, 1-5 in. by 3-5 lin. ; axis angular, finely villous ; branches 
reduced to subsessile clusters of 2-3 spikelets or toa single spikelet, 
each subtended by a fascicle of 3-4 or, if solitary, by as many as 8 
coarse subflexuous scaberulous bristles 23-43 lin. long with slightly 
thickened almost smooth and blackish tips; pedicels ech very 
short, tips discoid ; spikelets turgid, obliquely ovoid, 13—21 lin. long, 
pale with dark t tips, anny glumes s firmly m membranous, lower 
D-nerved, uppe oblong, very coneave, subapiculate, almost 
as the En or shorter by 3-1, 7-nerved ; lower floret ¢ ; igs 
equalling the upper floret, oblong, s subapiculate, 5-nerv 
equalling the valve; ¢ floret elliptic-oblong, slightly beaked ; “valve 
5-nerved, very convex, finely honey-eombed, yellowish, beak purple 
or blackish ; anthers 1~12 lin. long. nicum nigrirostre, pa 
Afr. Austr. 55 ; Steud. S yn. Pl. Glum. i 
arsenic without precise —S Dra ége! 
Coast Recton : Komgha Div. ; Komgh», Flanagan, 938! Queen wn Div. 
Five Nek, near Queenstown, 4000 ft. pg 3372! British I eatharie. 
ooper, 3341! 
KALAHARI REGION : Transvaal; Klerksdorp, near Schoen Spruit, Nelson, 51*! 
Orange Free State ; on the Drak ensberg, near Harrismith, Buchanan, 113! 
