cxLii. graminej:. 445 



a small grass, resembling Poa annua, found by Di*t'go on Tabic Mountain. 

 I have not seen it. 



A. Neesii and A. lachnantha, Ti'in., {PodoscEmum lachnayithum and P. 

 angusttim, Nees, 1. c.), are slender annual grasses, with very pale, dilluso 

 inflorescence. 



33. POLYPOGON, Desf. 



Spilvclets 1-flowcrcd, in a dense but much-branched ol)]on«T 

 panicle. Outer glumes 2, equal, ending in a slender, straight 

 awn. Flowering glume shorter, membranous, with or without 

 an awn ; palea small, thin. — JSlees, I. c. p. 143 ; Benih. I. 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 flowering. Flowering glume girt witli long 

 hairs, dorsally setigerous ; palea 2-uerved. — Nees, I. c. j)- 162. 



C. epigejos, Eoth, a Em'opean and N. Asiatic grass, occurs in the 

 Western district, but rarely. 



SUBTEIBE 2. StIPACEJE. 



35. LASIAGROSTIS, Link. 



Spikelets diffusely panicled, 1-flowered, the flowering glume 

 shortly stipitate. Outer glumes 2, membranous, ])()intless, 

 longer than the flowering, the lower rather longer. Flowering 

 glume subcarinate, silky, awned at the 2-lid apex, tlie awn 

 slender, simple, scarcely twisted, not jointed ; palea shorter, 

 involute, 2-nerved. Ovary stipitate. Grain free, enclosed in 

 the flowering glume and palea. — Nees, I. c. jj. 1G7. 



2 Cape species, Eastern. 



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 i)alea much shorter, 2-ncrved. 

 Scales 3. Ovary stipitate. — Nees, I. c. ^;. 169. 



A considerable genus, of w hich there ai-o 2 Capo species. 



37. STIPAGROSTIS, Nees. 

 Spikelets in racemose panicles, l-llowercd. Outer glumes 



