Rotthelia.) GRAMINE® (Stapf), 329 
Perennial or annual, of various habit. 
Distr1B. Species about 35, in both hemispheres. 
The only frican species belongs to se ee range tie’ Lagoa 
characterized by agen spikes, terminal on the culms their bra , com- 
ressed, tardily or not at all disarticulating ; joint tips ie racae, wot hollowed 
spikelets all alike i in form or nearly so; lower floret reduced to an empty valv 
1. R. compressa a f. Suppl. 114) var. Lies gene geen 
Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 286), perennial ; culms erect 
from a decumbent Sue base, branched, m 5 5 it. long, BH 
glabrous; sheaths dhorter than the iuleneden. compressed, keeled, 
often ciliate at the mouth, otherwise glabrous; ligules membranous, 
very short, ciliate; blades linear, gradually tapering, acute, ve 
variable in length and width, uppermost almost suppressed, some- 
what rigid, glabrous ; racemes often fascieled, rather stout, straight or 
curved, with the appearance of true spikes owing to the pedicels of 
the upper spikelets being adnate to the contiguous joint, more or less 
fragile ; spikelets linear- oblong to oblong, 3-34 lin. long, glabrous ; 
glumes equal, lower coriaceous, domidrietod below the obtuse tips or 
3 Jr. 
ook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 158. R. fasciculata, Lam. 
iH oie, i. 204; Desf. Fl. Atl. i. 110, é. 36. “ares ponliges 
Link, Hort. Faved. i, L. capensis, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 128. 
Lepturus fasciculatus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 123. " Hemarthria Fasci- 
culata, Kunth, Rev, dag i. ai Enum. i. 465, Suppl. 375 ; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 859; Hack. in Mart. Fl. Bras. I, iii. 314, #.72, 
ae H. capensis, Tin yeni in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. vi. ii. 
Co Oast Recion : Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezar, on sandy hills, Drége. Cape 
Div.; between Constantia and Wynberg, Burchell, 815! by the Salt River and 
C: l, 686! 
= the Ponds near Cape Town, Borcher ! Cape Peninsula, near Claremont 
Muizenberg Vlei , 2350! 2380! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein 
Mountains, by ane ire arity ! a Div ; near Tulbagh Waterfall, 
Ve r Div e Hex River, Mund and Maire ! Stell 
iv. 5 Hottentotts ‘Holland, pas Caledon a ; between Genadendal, and 
Zonder Hinde Riv 3ge. Swellendam Div.; by the Zonder Hinde pect 
» Drége 
Bur seh 7510! Uitenhase Div.; by the Zwartkops ER Tee ee 
Glenfilling, Dré 
RAL hs EGION: Graaff Reinet Div. ; banks of Sunday River, near Graaff 
Pi elg 2500 ft., Bolus, 536! 
Ea N Receion: Tembuland; banks of Qumancu River Baur 
Gn at Natal by the Umlazi mete, Krauss, 14! between ei Johns = River ‘and the 
Waterfall, e! by st treamlets tear Umpumulo, Bucha 198! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 74! Gerrard, 877 ! 
Throughout the warm countries of both hemispheres, in many localities evidently 
introduced. ‘The t type through India to South-west China, 
