Sete hE Ee 
eee ‘. 
Bly 
Setaria. ] GRAMINE (Stapf), 427 
long, pallid or purplish at the tips, glabrous; glumes very thin, 
membranous, ovate, acute or subacute, whitish or purplish, lower 
ete, + as long as the spikelet, upper 5-nerved, 3 as long 
the spikelet, nerves faint ; lower floret ¢ ; valve equal or subequal 
to the spikelet, flat or depressed along the middle, similar to the upper 
glume ; pale subequal to the valve ; ¢ floret equalling or slightly 
exceeding the ¢, plano-convex, oblong, usually minutely apiculate, 
pallid or purplish upwards ; valve coriaceous, transversely wrinkled, 
S-nerved ; anthers 3—1 lin. long; grain depressed ellipsoid, * lin. 
Ki 
F ‘ p. Afr. 121 
Schum. in Engl. Pj. Ost-Afr. C. 104. 8. sel ae ie C. Muell. in 
lL Bri 78 
0. 
Bot. Zeit. 1861, 316. 8. ylauca, Hook. f. F t. Ind. vii. 7 
ieartly) ; S. glauca var. elongata, Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. t. 118; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 773. Panicum — 
Nees; Fl. Afr. Austr. 56, not Agrost. Bras. 242. Steud. P, 
te 
Glum. i. 50, not Willd. P. chr suntan, Steud Syn. pi! Glum. 
i. 50; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 172. 
Var. 8, pallida (Stapf) 5 Aico lee the 2 of short stolons, 3-4 ft. lon 
riche ed below, - man 5-6 s much shorter than the a 
strongly compressed rm prin a hele diy a and angie Bp tightly 
folded ; panicles about 2-4 in. long with short pallid bristles. m dasyurum, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 56 (the South African platy, not tae Bras., nor 
Schlechtend 
Coast Recion: Var. 6: xandria Div. ; “ougeets Range, near Enon, 
1000-2000 ft. Dae f ebegha Div ; hear r Kom ngha, Flanagan, 938! 
CENTRAL Reet 10N: Var. 8B: Graaff Re erie 3; among shrubs on mountain 
sides near Graaff Reinet, 3700 ft., gy Y 
ALAHARI REGIon : Transvaal ; Cave “Mountain, Tabanas Kraal, Nelson, 
S.0.A. Her 
Eastern ReGion: Natal; Tmpneaney "Suther land! Nottingham, Buchanan 
Alber Buchanan, 170! a ithout precise locality, Gerrard, 47 3! 
169 
=3 
0! 
Buchan 
bee in sigue different forms throughout tropical Africa and Asia. 
The mode of growth of var. pal ‘es is rather distinct, oS that of § 
flabellata, Certain specimens of S. a from tropical Africa wever, come 
rather near it in this r s respect, and it is possible that this pecan is merely due 
to loea leon ditions, Paniram the Zw artkops 
River (Uitenhage ok ) and from Addo (Alexandria Div.). 
10. 8. imberbis (Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 891); annual; culms 
often copiously fascicled 
: h 
1_3 ft . 
and involute : ite with rae scat tered hairs, bit scaberulous ; Sins 
erect, straight or flexuous, cylindric, slender, 3-3 in. by about 2 lin., 
dense ; axis slender, minutely villous or puberulous; branches 
