430 GRAMINE (Stapf). [ Setaria. 
Sp. Pl. ed. ii. - ane Bot t. 874; Host, Gram. Austr. ii. t. 13; 
ao, Fl. Afr. 53; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 202; Pan. Gen. 
137, and in ten r ad, Pétersb, sér, vi. iii. 225 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
i. 52. P. adherens, Forsk. Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 20 ; A. Braun, Ind. 
Sem. Hort. Berol. 1871, App. 5. P. respiciens, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii: 379 ; Steud. lc. P. Aparine, Steud. lc. 
SoutH Arrica: without precise pig ied aa 7, 3367! 
Coast REGION sony hage Div.; Zwartkops Riv ver, Eckion, Albany slay 
cultivated ground near Grahamstown, 2000 ft , MacOwan, 1318! Komgha Div. 
banks of Key bane. aa 4 500 ft., Drege Ne 
ENTRAL REGION aaff Reine ; in cultivated ground near Gra 
aff 
Reinet, 2500 ft., gigs 723 | Aliwal North Div. 5 at the junction of Stormberg 
Spruit and the Orange River, 4200 ft., Drége 
ESTERN eer: Little Namaqualand ; ‘near Verleptpram on the Orange 
River, Drég 
Kata ae Scie Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1670! Atherstone ! 
Zoutpans Berg, Nelson, 16! 
Eastern Ruaion: Tembu land ; alma land pe Bazeia, 2000 » t., Baur. 
454! Natal; Durban Flat, Buchar 11! near Durban, Willia “V4! 
secon ge and near the coast, Buckwlan, 165! and without precise uy 
! 
rd, 
Tonos nya - oe to Malaya, elsewhere (Europe, Australia, 
America) on raun, l.c., distinguishes several subs cies and 
a ai ss Mg ony o ten of this grass, I can follow him. There 
is, however, this remarkable oe, coos plant is very uniform where 16 
occurs exclusively as a wee ry variable in the remainder of its are 
ed, 
The species was originally dnaiphad be Linnzus from the European plant which 
thus represents the type. Ne os the other forms oo some of the 
South African sie ane come under A, Braun’s subspecies Apar 
ae sae species. 
13. 8. pumila (Schult. Mant. ii. 274); annual; culms ascending, 
branched, aN t 1 ft. long, seabrid below the ‘panicle, otherwise 
mooth; sheaths pubescent; ligules hardly any; blades broad, 
presen seabrid ; panicle spike-like, dense, short, without bristles ; 
branches very short, closely packed ; spikelets glabrous ; glumes and 
lower valve obtuse, smooth, green-striped ; fruiting valve very finely 
transversely rugose. Panicum pumilum, Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 
4. 76: 
This description is compiled from Link’s description in Enum. Hort. Be rol. i 
76 at and in Hort. Berol. i. 218, which were drawn up from m specimens of “auknown 
ori 
men collected between the Umtentu and Umzimkulu Rivers, and gave an amended 
description in Fl, Afr. Austr. 52, in which he describes, however, the sheaths as 
hirsute with tubercle-based hairs Pied! of pubescent, and as narrow instead of 
seen neither Link’s nor Drége’s specim 
XVIII. PENNISETUM, Pers. 
Spikelets oblong or lanceolate, solitary or in clusters of 2-4, sub- 
tended by and deciduous with sessile or uncled involucres of 
ry 
