CXLII. GRAMINER. 453 
standing apart. Outer glumes 2, subequal, membranous, 
ovate-oblong, subacute, concave, rather shorter than the 
flowers; lower 4-7-nerved, upper 3-5-nerved. Flowering 
glume obovate, 2-fid, pointless or mucronate, 9-nerved, con- 
cave, membranous, pellucid at tip, ciliate on back and margin ; 
palea subequal, oblong, acute, 2-nerved. Grain obovate, gla- 
brous.—WVees, 1. c. p. 420. 
Tufted, annual grasses, with narrow leayes, more or less hairy,—4 Cape 
species. 
68. UROCHLANA, Nees. 
Spikelets many-flowered, in an ovate, spike-like raceme. 
Glumes all herbaceous, tapering into flexuous bristles; the 
outer 5-nerved. Flowering glume 7-9-nerved, hairy at base ; 
palea enfolded, 2-toothed. Grain glabrous, free—Wees, l.c. 
p. 437. 
U. pusilla, Nees, the only species, a small annual of dry ground, with 
knee-bent culms; the spike bracteate by the dilated sheath of the upper 
leaf, and falling with it. 
69. LASIOCHLOA, Kth. 
Spikelets in close panicles, 2-4-flowered, the glumes dis- 
tichous, callous at base, on an articulated rachis. Outer 
glumes subequal, 5-nerved, convex, longer than the flowers, 
herbaceous, on the outside (mostly) papillose-pilose. Flower- 
ing glume 9-nerved, convex, herbaceo-membranous, acute or 
mucronate; palea shorter, 2-keeled, sometimes subciliate. 
Grain glabrous, free.—Vees, l. c. p. 430. 
Tufted grasses, all South African, with narrow leaves and glomerate 
panicles.—7 species. 
70. BRIZOPYRUM, Link. 
Spikelets many-flowered, compressed, in simple or com- 
pound spikes, subsecund. Outer glumes herbaceous, nerved, 
subequilatera]l, the lower many-nerved. Flowering glume 
convex, rigid at base, obsoletely nerved, more or less clothed 
with clavate hairs, at the apex herbaceous, 5- or more nerved, 
acute. Ovary glabrous, stipitate. Grain free.—ees, l.c. p. 
369. 
Rigid grasses.—4 Cape species. 
71. MELICA, Linn. 
Spikelets 2-5-flowered, 2-3 of the upper glumes neuter, all 
pointless, panicled or subracemose. Outer glumes 2, rigidly- 
membranous, about as long as the flowering, often very ample, 
with a wide margin, the upper one 7-9-nerved. Fertile 
