CXLII. GRAMINED. 445 
a small grass, resembling Poa annua, found by Drége on Table Mountain. 
I have not seen it. 
A. Neesii and A. lachnantha, Trin., (Podosemum lachnanthum and P. 
angustum, Nees, |. c.), are slender annual grasses, with very pale, diffuse 
inflorescence. 
33. POLYPOGON, Desf. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in a dense but much-branched oblong 
panicle. Outer glumes 2, equal, ending in a slender, straight 
awn. Flowering glume shorter, membranous, with or without 
an awn; palea small, thin.— Nees, lic. p. 143 ; Benth. l.c. p. 
426. 
Annual grasses, often with knee-bent stems, and very pale inflorescence. 
—2 Cape species. 
34. CALAMAGROSTIS, Adans. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in a compound panicle. Outer glumes 
membranous, channelled, subequal or the lower larger, much 
longer than the flowermg. Flowering glume girt with long 
hairs, dorsally setigerous ; palea 2-nerved.—Wees, J. ¢. p. 162. 
C. epigejos, Roth, a European and N. Asiatic grass, occurs in the 
Western district, but rarely. 
SUBTRIBE 2. STIPACER. 
35. LASIAGROSTIS, Link. 
Spikelets diffusely panicled, 1-flowered, the flowering glume 
shortly stipitate. Outer glumes 2, membranous, pointless, 
longer than the flowering, the lower rather longer. Flowering 
elume subcarinate, silky, awned at the 2-fid apex, the awn 
slender, simple, scarcely twisted, not jointed; palea shorter, 
involute, 2-nerved. Ovary stipitate. Grain free, enclosed in 
the flowering glume and palea.—LVees, 1. ¢. i 167. 
2 Cape species, Kastern. 
36. STIPA, Linn. 
Spikelets panicled, 1-flowered, the flowering glume stipitate. 
Outer glumes 2, membranous, pointless, “longer than the 
flowering. Flowering glume and palea hard and dry, cylin- 
drical, margins involute ; the glume with a terminal, twisted 
awn, jointed at base, "the palea much shorter,” 2-nerved. 
Scales 3. Ovary stipitate——Lees, J. c. p. 169. 
A considerable genus, of which there are 2 Cape species. 
37. STIPAGROSTIS, Nees. 
Spikelets in racemose panicles, 1-flowered. Outer glumes 
