Stenotaphrum. | GRAMINE& (Stapf). 439 
2—4-distant leaves ; sheaths strongly compressed, — ‘atom soon 
thrown aside, lower persistent ; ligule a fringe of very short hairs ; 
blades linear, obtuse, 1-6 in. by 1-3 lin., first folded, roan flat or 
n fro 
very short, more or less sunk in the hollows or ipiowl d to tli 
margin of the rhachis, compressed or angular, often very stout ; 
spikelets solitary from the inner side of the ‘base ‘of the branch, sunk 
in the adjoining hollow, or 2-5 crowded along the branch, lanceolate- 
oblong to oblong, aeute, 2} lin. long, pallid ; lower glume hyaline, 
ly 
floret 4; valve lanceolate-oblon ng t o oblong, acute, equalling the 
spikelet, chartaeeous, faintly 7—9- Satter, dorsally flattened, somewhat 
rough ; anthers year lin. long; upper floret 3; valve similar to 
the lower, but more acute, tirmly membranous, 5-nerved. Trin. 
Gram. Pan. 60; Pan. Gen. 102, and in Mém Acad. Pé sereb: sér. vi. 
iii, 190 (in part) ; Nees in Linnea, vii. 273; Steud. Syn. Pi. 
Glu. i. 118 fecal the two last syn.) ; ue in Mart. Fl. Bras. i. 
ii. 300, ¢. 39 (excl. several syn.); not Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 90. 
S. americanum, Schrank, Plant. Rar. Hort. Monac. 98, t. 8; Kunth, 
Hnum. i. 138, S. dinaivadins, Brongn. Bot. Voy. Cog. 127, and 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 787 (in part). S. swartzianum, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 62 (var. a, and var. B in part), not Peters, 
Reise Mossamb. Bot. 549. Panicum dimidiatum, Linn. Spec. Pl. 57 
unb. Prod. 23; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. R. tripsacoides, Lam 
g. 1b. R. compressa, ras Agrost. t. xxl. i. fg. 8, 
not Lin 
mA rH A¥rRica: without precise locality, Thunbery / a us 
N: Cape Div. ; near Capetown and Table Decade Thunberg : 
Bellow 17! Drége! pig 22! nap tig 252! Schlechter, 194! — 
Bay, Burchell, 322! by the sea shore in Simons Bay, ray oni 389! n 
lein Constantia, Wolley Dod, 1989 ! Uitenhage Div. ; bauks of the pei oe 
eed a oe a Drége! Ecklo: 
f 
k 
Drege. Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. 
1357! Pig 5 194" Burchell, 4812! Bathurst Div. ; Kowie River, MacOwan, 
ERN REGION: Natal; Durban Flat, Buchanan, 16! and without precise 
dicatee Gerrard, 678 ! 
pe cng the hot parts of America, in West Africa, the Sandwich Islands and 
in ustr: 
The form having rae spikelets sunk in the coi of a rrr on — 
ies w in Ameri It the Cape 
: h ag g 305 
spikelets, and being merely adpressed to the sides of the scarcely h Blowed 
and narrow — and the two ate there connected by a complete scries of 
intermediate st stag 
