cxLii. gra:mine^. 457 



pointless, rigid. Flowering glumes oblique and palea rather 

 rigid, boat-keeled, pointless, about equal ; the palea 2-keeled. 

 Stamens 6. Scales 3. Stigmas 3. arain glabrous.— .Yee^, 

 I.e. p. 4G3. 



Arborescent grasses, branched at the nodes, with articulated leaves ; 

 branches tufted, florifcrous at apex.— 1 Cape species. 



The Cape species has never been found in flower, and its genus is there- 

 fore uncertain. Colonel Munro, in consequence of similarity of loliage, has 

 placed the Cape plant in the genus Arundinarla, in which the stamens are 

 3 in number, and the spikelets contain several perfect flowers. 



Dr Harvey's ms.- docs not contain a description of the genus Bambusa, m 

 consequence, I suppose, of his considering the species found at the Cape to 

 have been undoubtedly introduced. 



SUBTKIBE 8. HORDEACE.I:. 



85. MONERMA, Beauv. 



Spikelets solitary, half-sunk in hollows of the jointed rachis 

 of a simple spike, 1-flowered. Outer glume 1, eartilagmous, 

 rib-furrowed. Flow^ering glume and palea membranous, hya- 

 line, pointless ; with mere rudiment of an upper glume— JVees, 

 I.e. p. 126. 



M. subulata is a slender, rigid, narrow-leaved grass ; its pale culm end- 

 ing in a long, slender, pointed, cyhndrical spike, barren m its upper nodes ; 

 the spikelets are very erect, lying close on the rachis.— Eastern and Western 

 districts. 



86. LOLIUM, Linn. 



Spikelets compressed, many-flowered, distichously-spiked on 

 opposite sides of the rachis. Outer glume usually 1, herba- 

 ceous, entire-nerved. Flowering glume herbaceous, convex, 

 5-nerved, pointless or dorsally setigerous below the apex; 

 palea 2-keeled, with inflexed edges, arain furrowed, adhermg 

 to the palea.— iVees, I.e. p. 364. 



L. temulentwn (Darnel), a weed of cultivation, occurs in cornfields. 



87. TRITICUM, Linn. 



Spikelets 3- several-flowered, spiked, distichous. Outer 

 glumes 2, herbaceous, both placed towards one side, subequal, 

 pointless or awned. Flowering glumes convex, 5-nerved, mu- 

 cronate or awned ; palea flat, entire or cloven, 2-keeled, with 

 inflexed edges. Grain free or adherent, furrowed on one side. 

 — Nees^ I.e. p. 365. 



Annual or perennial grasses ; wild Wheat.— 2 Cape species. 



88. BRACHYPODIUM, Beauv. 



Spikelets many-flowered, semiterete, imbricate, in simple 

 racemes, subdistichous, on short pedicels. Outer glumes 



