43.4. GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Pennisetum. 
CENTRAL Reaion: Beaufort West Div.; near Beaufort a a Gamka River, 
Drege. Graaff Rei one 3 hillsides near Graaff Reinet, 3400 ft., Bolus, 
Taat yay Boisanis. anks of Klein Fish ag eee Somerset Fast, 
acOwan, — 48! 0 near esa: ny marge , 198 8! 
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t Reeion: Griqualand West; Hay Div.; Asbestos Mountains, 
between the ‘‘ Kloof Village ” and Witte Water, Bevcheli, 2058! 2067! Bechu- 
analand; on the rocks at Chue ibe Burchell 2388 ! Orange Free State; 
Jackals Fontein, Burke! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 266! 
Transvaal; on the Bosch Veld, etweets Elands River and Klippan, Rehmann, 
5114! 
Throughout Africa, in Sicily and eastwards as far as North-west India. 
. P. macrourum (Trin. Gram. Pan. 64); perennial; culms 
erect from a short oblique rhiz zome, rather stout, up to 8 ft. high or 
more, usually sheathed all along, simple, few- noded, scabrid below 
the panicle, otherwise smooth ; leaves mostly crowded at the base ; 
sheaths long, rounded on the bac k, firm, persistent, striate, glabrous 
or somewhat rough or hispid ; ligule a fringe of rather long hairs ; 
blades linear, long tapering to a fine or setaceous point, u 0 
2 ft. by 2-3 lin., firm, usually convolute, glabrous, smooth beneath in 
the lower part, very rough above and along the margins, nerves 
acute to subulate-acuminate, 5-nerved ; lodieules truncate, fleshy, js 
lin, long; anthers 12 lin. long, tips naked : styles free or almost s0. 
Steud, Syn. Pl. tia i. 103; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
780 (the Cape plant). P. hordeiforme, Spreng. Syst. i. 302 (in part) 
Durand § Schinz, le. 779. P. asperum, —- f. Mant. ii. 149 (’). 
piece honeiormis Thunb. Pro 4. Panicum ogy § 0° 
Thun - Cap. 88, and ed. Schult. 103 (the Cape pla 
(iymnothri ix sn ee Roem. § Schult. Syst. ii. 499, and it 
pie oN — ews Cape, ne G. hordeiformts, ,_ Nees m 
prem 
Grim. i 253," spares ee awed re. (ers 
seo py in Flora, 1829, 465. 
Coast Recon: Vanrbynsdorp Div.; near Buenezer, Drege. Cape D 
swa nite spots at the foot of Devils Modatsta, Ecklon, 9731 ‘Table Mounts, 
calpiyigldi 395! Milne, 244! by beyond Kamps Ba . 
$136} in meadows below Klein Constantia, Wolley Dod, 2042! Paarl Div. ; banks 
zs the erg River, Drege! Tulbagh Div.; near the Waterfall, Ecklon i New 
500 ft., Schlechter, 9036! Worcester Div. ; Hex River East, Wolley Ded, 
37 13! Stellen osch Div.; wet spots near Lowi Pass, at ‘the foot of Hottentots 
