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FEsTUCA COSTATA, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. i. p. 447. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. ; S. Africa. 
FESTUCA MILANJIANA, Rendle, sp. n. ; rhizomate subvalido; culmo 1-2-pedali, simplici. 
erecto, compresso, l:evi, folioso, vaginis radicalibus demum in fibras solutis ; ligula 
membranacea, alba, truncata, 1 lin. longa; foliis linearibus utrinque attenuatis, 
planis vel siccis seepe convolutis, glabris, supra sulcatis, subtus subleevibus; paniculze 
laxe substrictee ovalis semipedalis radiis geminis elongatis, ascendentibus, triquetris, 
laevibus, prope medium divisis; spiculis ovali-lanceolatis, valde compressis, 4-floris ; 
flosculis dissitiuseulis, haud coloratis; glumis lanceolatis, subscabridis, sterilibus 
acutis, fertilibus 5-nerviis, apice bidente, carina in aristam intermediam perbrevem 
producta. 
The leaves which overtop the panicle may be a foot or more in length (including the 
sheath, the length of the blade being from 6-9 inches) and from 1-14 lines at the widest 
part ; the upper part is long and very attenuate. The panicle is from 5 to 6 inches long ; 
the sterile glumes, which have two conspicuous nerves on each side (a third is rarely 
present), are 4 lines long and the lowest fertile one 5 lines. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. | 
Near the South-African species F. costata, Nees, and F. scabra, Vahl; distinguished 
from the former by the narrower panicle, more lanceolate spikelets, colourless glumes, 
and proportionately larger sterile glumes, these being nearly as long as the lower fertile 
ones; from the latter by its lax panicle, more lanceolate spike, and less scabridity. The 
culm flattened throughout is also a distinguishing characteristic. 
BROMUS MILANJIANUS, Rendle, sp. n. ; culmo elongato, bipedali, levi, striato, compresso, 
folioso; ligula membranacea, alba, truncata, demum fimbriata, 1 lin. longa; foliis 
elongatis ; late linearibus, utrinque attenuatis, planis, supra sparse villosis, subtus 
levibus, panicule anguste gracilis semipedalis radiis multis verticillatis ternis, 
ascendentibus; spiculis compressis, trifloris, lateralibus breviter, terminalibus longe 
pedicellatis; glumis sterilibus lanceolatis acutis, apice breviter setigeris, inferiore 
uninervia, altera trinervia ; fertilibus glabris, late lanceolatis, inconspicue 7-nerviis, 
apice profunde bifidis, carina scabridula in aristam flexuosam glumam parce 
excedentem producta. 
The acute tip of the uppermost leaf of the culm falls a little short of the top of the 
panicle. The leaf-blades may attain a length of 9 in., and are 23 lines wide at their 
broadest part. The graceful curving panicle is 6-7 in., the spikelets are 5 lines long. 
The lowest sterile glume is 23 lines long and very acute; the upper is broader, 33 lines 
long and à line broad. The lowest fertile glume measures, without the awn, 5 by 
14 lines. Rhachilla pilose beneath the florets. 
Hab. Milanji, Oct. No. 9. 
Very near the two closely related species from Central Madagascar, B. arrhenatheroides 
and B. avenoides, described by Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. pp. 301, 302, being 
r2 
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