Pollinia.1 GRAMINE® (Stapf). 325 
Stigmas linear, laterally exserted. Grain oblong; embryo almost 
half the length of the grain, or longer; hilum basal, punctiform, 
Perennial or annual, of very different habit. 
Distris. Species about 32, in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 
World. 
Ihave followed here, as in Pn eg > Hackel’s beige mono- 
ai ang in the definition of the genera, but in this and in other , they se 
e too heterogeneous, esnien ing as ries do ea iy distinguishable. and nat 
Hoa which are held together only by few ill-definable and often ari 
cters, 
Subgenus I. EunanrA. Perennial; culms erect; blades not 
contracted at the base; glume dorsally flattened or slightly 
d 
Ve na (1) villosa. 
oo Il. Ler PTATHERUM. Ann ual ; culins decumbent, 
rooting ; blades lanceolate, conspicuously contracted at the 
base; lower glume grooved .. (2) nuda, 
P. villosa (Spreng. Syst. i. 288, not Benth.); perennial ; culms 
Pie ft. long, rather stout, we noded, appressedly hirsute or 
pubescent, at least below the nodes and at the top; sheaths usually 
exceeding the internodes except the uppermost, terete, tight, 
scantily hairy to villous or glabrescent, bearded at the nodes ; 
ligules membranous, zo lin. long, glabrous; blades lanceolate- 
linear, gradually passing into the ‘sheath, shortly acute, 4-7 in. 
3% 1; 
3-23 g; spikelets crowded, ferruginous, lanceolate, 
23-37 ng; glumes coriaceous, the lower minutely truncate, 
ciliate ; upper glume lanceolate, boat-shaped, shining, 3-nerved, keel 
viliate above ; lower valve empty, almost as long as ‘the subtending 
glume, membranous below, hyaline above, 2-nerved, margins inflexed, 
Hack. peal in DC. Monogr. Phan vi. 57 ; Dura i & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 696. eo villosum, Thunb. Prodr. 20; 
Fl. Cap, ed. Schult. 108; Kunth, Enum. i. aye Eulalia ellost: 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 91; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 412. 
T Region: Clanwilliam Div.; on the Olifants River and near Brack 
Fontein, Ecklon. ‘‘ Swellendam and Sim on District,” Mund. hage Div. ; 
rocky slopes of Van Stadens Berg Ra , Drége! between the 
Kromme River and the Mo pir ins, Ecklon. Albany Div.; stony 
. Krakakamma 
hills near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 698! Stockenstrom Div. ; ; near P hilippstown, 
Ecklon. Komgha Div. ; banks of the a ceo er, Drége! 
Katanart ReGion: Transvaal; Wes Lyden Berg ba des Nelson 
Eastern Reeion: Tembuland; ‘sarcia: ig ig 325! Griqualand ar Sh 
hills near Kokstad, Tyson, 1474! Natal ; Inanda, Wood, 1591! Umpumulo, 
Buchanan, 210! and without precise sheer Buchana 
Also in Mad agascar, according to Hackel. 
