652 cl vii. GBAMiNEiE (Stapf). [. Panicum . 
contracted and rounded or gradually narrowed base, long-tapering 
to a very fine point, J-1J ft. by 4-9 (rarely 12) lin., flat, margins 
scabrid, midrib rather stout and prominent below, channelled and 
whitish above, primary nerves 5-7 on each side, fine, but distinct 
below. Panicle erect or slightly nodding, contracted, ultimately 
usually widely open, 3-9 in. long, divided to the third degree ; axis 
slender, grooved below, upwards angular, scabrid, often pubescent 
or softly hirsute in the lower part, particularly towards the nodes, 
the hairs fine, mostly with very minutely clavellate tips ; primary 
branches scattered or irregularly approximate in pairs or false 
whorls, up to 4 (rarely 5) in. long, flexuous or somewhat stiff, mostly 
remotely divided from the base, filiform, angular, very scabrid to 
rigidly ciliolate, lowest branchlets (secondary divisions) often un- 
divided, very fine, flexuous, bearing a single spikelet, up to 1 in. long, 
the others forming short cluster-like or elongated 3- or 2-spiculate 
racemes, their lateral pedicels usually very short, all the divisions 
of the panicle beset with scattered and usually clavellate-tipped 
hairs. Spikelets oblong, obtuse, turgid, 2-2 \ lin. long, light green 
with usually purple or blackish tips, glabrous or with a very few 
small hairs. Glumes similar, broadly rounded on the back, mem- 
branous, 5-7 -nerved ; lower ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
two-thirds to three-quarters the length of the lower floret, nerves 
fine, anastomosing upwards ; upper oblong, obtuse. Lower floret $ : 
valve very similar to upper glume, but slightly shorter ; valvule 
oblong, acute or obtuse, almost as long as valve ; anthers 1J-1J 
lin. long. Upper floret b, oblong, acute or obtusely apiculate, as 
long as or slightly exceeding the upper glume, yellowish or tawny, 
smooth, glossy ; valve and valvule coriaceous-crustaceous. Grain 
obovoid-elliptic, over 1 lin. long. — Thunb. FI. Cap. ed. Schult. 104 ; 
Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 403 ; Wood, Natal PI. 1. 155. P. unguicu- 
latum, Trin. Pan. Gen. 187, and in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6me ser. iii. 
275 ; Steud. Syn. PL Glum. i. 75 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. 
v. 767; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 31, C. 102. 
P. numidianum, Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 33 ; not of Lam. P. corymbi- 
ferum, Steud. l.c. 76 ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 744. P. arundim '.folium, 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 22 ; Durand and Schinz, 
l.c. 741 ; K. Schum. in Engl. l.c. C. 103 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. 
Boma, viii. 306. P. jpubivaginatum, K. Schum. in Engl. l.c. A. 34, 
C. 102. P. Menyharthii, Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2me ser. i. 766. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Amasen ; Ginda, among luxuriant herbage, Schwein- 
furth, 435, Pappi, 3830 ! South Abyssinia : Galla Country; Sheikhusim, Donald- 
son-Smith, 68 ! and without precise locality, Stordy ! Uganda : Ruwenzori, 
2600 ft., Emin Pasha ; in thickets near Ntakafunvu, 4000 ft., Dummer , 693 ! [ 
and without precise locality, Lugard ! British East Africa : Ukambane, Scott 
Elliot, 2322 ! Taro, 1000 ft., Kdssner, 495 ! Makindu, Linton, 103 ! 168 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Zanzibar, Hildehrandt, 1187! German East Africa: 
Usambara ; Mascheua, Holst, 8816 ! Tanga, Holst, 2100 ! Sacleux, 946! Portu- 
guese East Africa : Boruma, Menyharth, 902 ! Shire Highlands, Buchanan , 59 ! 
Also in Natal and Southern Cape Colony. 
