a SRS ee ae ae ee Ra aT age REP gh a ei SEN oi oy eR A ee a a ge ee 
vn ime i : Tere 
ee z ; 
Penniset wm. } GRAMINEH (Stapf). 433 
Coast Recron: Cape Div.; Thee Mr. Hesse’s garden at Cape Town, brought 
from Inhambane, Burchell, 755 
Katawart Region: Oran nge e State; without poser a Cooper, 
ae Transvaal; Cave Mountains, in Tabana’s gardens, Nelso 
STERN REGION: Natal ; ae Durban, Drége; and w ithout padeen locality, 
} ter 3338! Delagoa Bay, Seott 
ae in numerous forms in ERE Africa and in India. 
merous forms of this cereal have been described by A. Braun in Ind. Sem. 
Hor. Berol. 1855, App. 24; but it is hopeless to attempt to reduce the South 
Afri i types. chu 
mens to Braun’s species 
who has had access to them, has given up A. Braun’s classi eee and attempted 
to break up the species into 2 ip Sa Walt and Plukenetii, according 
to the length of the ag d the general re pe of 2 spikelets, and to 
divide the subspecies Wi fide wt into sey ae ite, I cannot, however, 
agree with him, and confine myself in aed Nee ce to hind Riciramet: A all 
the South African ie Seen tenets esent more ss the ] for in 
Delile’s figure quo ove. ‘Those where he Tend hte ree porate os 
a small and empty en are evidently starved states 
fee 
ss ascending from a getter sehies and often peace many- 
hairs; sheaths tight, the lower persistent, or at leng ca. 
leaving the internodes naked ; ligule a very narrow densely ate 
g tapering to a setaceous point, 3-8 in. by 13-38 
lin., usually flat, often “flaccid, usually seaberulous above or along the 
margins ; ; panicle spike-like, ‘eylindtie, dense, ies in. by 4-6 “lin 
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very short pedicels ; involucres of very numerous bristles, outer 
With in cach 3 involu ucre, lane pide oun, 2-22 in. on pallid, 
Iv 
truncate ; lodicules 0; anthers slightly over 1 lin. long, tips acute, 
pissy styles free nearly from the sae Beauv. Agrost. 59, t. 13, 
Sig. ; Nees i in Pap vii. 277, and Fl. Afr. Austr. 70; Kunth, 
"Enum. 1,162; Trin. Pan. Gen. 93, pe in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. ser. 
Vi. iii, 181; fi Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 105; Baker, Fl. Mawrit 441; 
= E Hook. j. Fl. l. Brit. Ind. vii. 88. P. ciliare, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 218 ; 
S4. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 384; Engl. Hochgebirgf < rop. Afr. 
a: 
125; as & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 778; Hack. in B: al. 
Herb. Boi lv. App. iii. 16. Cenchrus cet Linn. Mant. 302. 
~ Panicum aaa Wiild. Enum. Hort. Bero!. 1031. 
Sourn Arrica: without beige -fetgutin nt Zeyher, 194 
Coast Region: Sw ellen fate Diy. ee Beal endam and above ai oe 
| Bosch, Ecklon t ! George Diy. ; on the gee by sc Ganritz River, Mwn 7. 
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