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BRIZOPYRUM CILIARE, Stapf: 
GRAMINESH. Tribe FESTUCES. 
ciliare, Stapf; spiculis parvis, valvis secundum margines exiinie 
ip ciliatis, ciliis tuberculis impositis uniseriatis, ab omnibus speciebus 
generis distincta 
men annuum. Culmi fasciculati, geniculati, ascendentes vel 
Pe tenues, 4-6 poll. longi, glabri, leeves, 2-3-nodi, ad paniculam 
vaginati vel internodiis intermediis paulo exsertis. Jolia tenuiter 
ad marginem redactz ; laminz anguste lineares, 1—3 poll. longe, circiter 
3 lin. late, sepe convolute, subflaccide, summa paniculam longe 
excedens. Panicula spiciformis, oblonga, nei interdum lobata, 
4-G lin. longa, 2-3 lin. lata ; thachis r mique teretes, leves, hice 
brevissimi ; pedicelli ad } lin. longi. Spice le perlate, ovate, turgide, 
13-14 lin, lon ngze, 3-6-floree. Glumee la te, ovate, acute vel subacute, 
ad 1 lin. longee, 5-nerves, tenues, marginibus albis latissimis, inferior 
in dorso herbaceo hispida pilis e tuberculis ortis, superior subglaber. 
Valve ovate (a latere) subobtusx, 1 lin. long secundum margines 
serie ciliorum rigidorum tuberculis impositis munite, ceterum glabre, 
firmiuscule, apice purpures, subcompresse, nervis tenuibus. Pale 
late, obtuse, carinis sca is. odicule minute, sparse mepaer ee 
Anthere 1} lin. longe. Daciylis ciliaris, Thunb. Prodr. Pl. Ca ap. p. 22 ; 
. Cap. ed. i. p- 429 ; ed. Schult. p. 115; non Linn., nec Nees, in 
Linnea, vii. (1832) p. 322, 
Soutn Arrica : Cape Colony, without precise locality, Thunberg. 
This is a very distinct species and quite different from Lasiochloa 
muaris Kunth. which this author took to hunberg’s Dactylis 
- Linneeus’s Dactylis ciliaris (Mant. ii. p. 185) is a perennial 
with setaceous, perfectly glabrous blades, a small obovoid, capitate 
panicle, and glumes equalling more or less the Mog which are, apart 
from a white beard at each side of the base, glabrou 
ie lla tbe 2,a spikelet; 3, lower glume; 4, ek glume; 5, a valve; 6,4 
a as "a lodicu ; 8, an anther; 9, a pistil, Ald enlar arged 
SERIES IV. VOL. VII. PART I. ; KE 
