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rent; the glume broadly ovate, truncate, concave, 3-nerved ; 
palea 2-keeled.—Wees, l. ¢. p. 246. 
M. Caffra, Nees, the only Cape species, is a tufted grass ; leaves slender, 
rigid, curled, with involute margins; culms short, 1-spiked.—Hastern 
district. 
42. CTENIUM, Panz. 
Spikelets in a double row along one side of a common 
rachis, with 1 fertile flowermg glume, and 2 lower and 1-2 
upper imperfect male or neuter glumes. Outer glumes 2; 
the lower minute, membranous, persistent, the upper herba- 
ceous, with a reflexed, dorsal bristle. Imperfect flowering 
glumes, pointless or setigerous. Fertile flowering glume se- 
tigerous below the apex, keeled, ciliate; palea longer, 2-keeled. 
—Nees, l.c. p. 237. 
Very beautiful grasses. C. concinnum, Nees, which is said to resemble 
the C. elegans of Senegal, was found by Drége near Natal; it is unknown 
to me. 
43. HARPECHLOA, Kunth. 
Spikelets ina double row along one side of a common 
rachis, with 1 (lowest) flowering glume fertile and 3 upper 
neuter ones. Outer glumes 2, pointless, keeled ; the outer 
longer than the spikelet, the inner thrice as short, persistent. 
Flowering glume and palea membranous, pointless ; the glume 
obovate, keeled at back, and margins densely ciliate; palea 
scarcely shorter, 2-keeled.—Nees, 1. c. p. 238. 
Hf, Capensis is an elegant grass of the Eastern district. 
44. CYNODON, Rich. 
Spikelet with 1 fertile and a rudimentary upper flowering 
glume sessile on one side of a rachis, in digitate or geminate 
spikes. Outer glumes 2, keeled, membranous, pointless, 
nearly equal. Flowermg glume membranous, acute, keeled, 
sometimes mucronulate under the tip; palea 2-keeled, com- 
pressed.—WVees, l.c. p. 241. 
Roots creeping ; culms short; leaves rigid, margins involute.—4 Cape 
species, dispersed. 
45, EHUSTACHYS, Desyv. 
Spikelets with 1 fertile and 1 (upper) sterile flowering 
glume, sessile, unilateral, in digitate spikes. Outer glumes 2, 
membranous, the upper awned below the emarginate apex. 
Flowering glume and palea membranous; the glume keeled, 
the palea 2-keeled.—Lees, l. c. p. 248. 
EL. petrea, a widely-diffused and very elegant grass, occurs in the Eastern 
district and Catfraria. 
