Pennisetum. ] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 437 
iit ar Thunb. Prod, 24. Panicum fii Thunb. Fl. 
C 88, and ed. Schult. 103 (excl. syn. P. hor me). Gym- 
i i tz purpurascens, Schrad. in Goett. Gel. Anz. er aor ; Kunth, 
Enum. i. 159 ; Mees in Linnea, vii. 277; and FI. Afr. Austr, 68. 
Vak. 8, Galpinii (Stapf) ; oulms erect, up to 2 ft. pias ps4 and pubescent 
above ; basal pee bape i ather r long, fone compressed, pallid ; blades 
3-1 ft. ~4 lin., usually sieeat more scabrid than ie paiegs authers more 
een! bea rde . 
Co: GIon: Cape Div tches and on hillsides near Capetown, 
Thonbery Spielhaus ? moist spots Gere: Table okialicn and Ka amps Bay, 
Eckloy evils Mountain, Ecklon, Bergius ; in swamps in 
Orange Klose WwW olley Dod, 3225! Baippem nse between ihe type at and the plone 
Worcester Diy. ; Hex Hiver Valley, igi Dod, ae ! Geor, se Song ; near poe rge, 
strom Diy.; Kat Berg, 4000 ft., stp Cat chant t Div. ; Glen airn, 4800 t., 
Galpin, 2418! Var. 8: Cape Div. ; near King’s Blockhouse, yes ley Dod, 2668 ! 
Queenstown Div. ; am’s Nek, near Jueenstown, 3800 ft., Galpin, ! 
CENTRAL REGION a Albert Div.; by the mka Riv r at Weltevrede, 
2500-3000 ft., Drége! : Somerset Div.; in moist places on the Bosch 
sabi 2 sca bie MncOwan, 1661 ! Graaff Reinet Div. ; ah Kop A gre ss 
Wis TERN REGION: ete a near Keetmanshoop, Fenchel, 3 
hear 9 felons, 616 Schenck, 7 
KALAHARI Itxer0 | Transral near Lydenburg, W ilms, 1698 
KasTERN REG : We B: Tembuland ; Bezeia, s andy 3 river margins, 2000- 
2500 ft., Baws, 252 | 314! Natal ; without precise gions 4000-5000 ft., 
, 85! 
oy Aik is also found in Hereroland, German te Africa. 
ariety Galpinii is Mal ee from the type in the eastern parts of 
Cape Udine and in Natal ; the west, it seems to Sats completely into the 
latter as Captain Wolley Dad's sieriaer es show 
- P. unisetum (Benth. = Journ. Linn. Soe. xix. 47, 49); 
perennial ; aie short, premorse ; innovation-buds rather stout, 
acute, with firm, ovate, he ciliate scales; culms 3-12 ft. high, 
de 
strong, the lower and middle as long as the internodes or shorter, 
ultimately spreading, the upper longer, tighter, glabrous except the 
usually ciliate mouth and the sometimes hairy nodes; ligules very 
short and ciliate or a fringe of hairs ; blades lanceolate-linear from a 
usually long-narrowed base, or petioled, long tapering to a setaceous 
point, the longest from 1]2 ft. by 3-10 lin., rather firm, glaucous, 
scabrid above, sometimes shortly and sparingly hairy, margins very 
rough ; racemes on long very slender peduncles, 1 or sev veral rom 
the” ° upper ery uke very numerous, 1_2 in. lon ng 5. rhachis 
scales, lower 3-1, upper 1-2 lin. long; lower floret reduced to a valve 
