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Lhrharta.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 671 
from the uppermost sheath, oblong, 23-32 lin. long, light green, 
glabrous ; glumes spreading, linear-lanceolate to linear-oblong, equal, 
as long as the spikelet, prominently 5-7-nerved, smooth, thin; 
lower barren valve ovate, * lin. long, smooth, 5-ri d ; upper 
13. E. ii. 347); perennial; culms tufted, 
geniculate-aseending from a procumbent often copiously branched 
] - 
base, 
rarely 
hairy, smooth or subscaberulous, margins often wavy, scabrid or 
very unequal, the longest up to 1-3 in., erect or spreading, simple or 
sparingly branched, filiform to almost capillary, flexuous, glabrous or 
scaberulous above ; pedicels capillary, scaberulous to puberulous, up 
to 4 lin. or more long ; spikelets light green, oblong, 1{—2 lin., very 
tarely 22 Jin. long; glumes ovate, obtuse or apiculate, 5-nerved, 
the lowest 3-1 hi he upper 1-12 lin. long; empty valves oblong, 
anthers 1~5 Jin, long; stigmas brush-like; grain 1 lin. long. Lam. 
fllusty, ii. 397, t. 263, fig. 1,a-e. EF. panicea, Sm. Pl. de. Ined. 
9; Thunb. Prodr. 188; Fl. Cap. ed, Schult. i, 335; Sw. in 
Schrad. in Schult. J. Syst. vii. 1370; Trin. Phalar. 18; Nees, Fl. 
Af, Austr, 225 ‘. Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 6; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. A rev. 793, E, paniciformis, Nees ex Trin. Phalar, 18; 
- Afr. Austr, 226 (excl. var. 8); Stew. Le. 6; Durand § Schinz, 
Le. 793. Panicum deflecum, Guss. in Ten. Fl. Nap. Vv. 320. 
Trochera panicea, H. Baill. Hist. Pl. xii. 171, fig. 313, 314. 
Var. i f ; s usuall 
nodes ; Pima ye sigan srg horton of the panicle and the pedicels 
often densely and minutely pubescent ; spikelets 2-25 lin. long; empty valves 
riety ana puberulous ; fertile valve obscurely bearded at the base; stamens 3 
Ways ?), 
Coase Rreion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, as a weed on roadsides and in 
