Fodder and Pasture Grasses of South Africa. 



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fragile, few to 5-iioded, and up to 1 in. long, joints slender up to 

 2 lin. long, sparsely ciliate, cilia wliitisli ; pedicels similar and of 

 equal length; sessile spikeJet lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, sub-acute 

 up to 3 lin. long; lower glume dorsally flattened towards the tip, 

 sides sharply inflexed and keeled in the upper part, rounded lower 



a Slicaf of Sudan (irass. 



down; about 13-nerAed and shortly hairy; upper gkime 7-uerved. 

 with hyaline inflexed margins; lower ralve empty, hyaline, 2^^ lin. 

 long, 2-nerved, ciliate, bidentate at the tip; upper valve 2 lin. long, 

 hyaline, ciliate, deeply bifid, with a fine awn from the sinus; lodicules 

 truncate, and long ciliate from the broad tips, pale 1 lin. long, ciliate, 



