Tricholena. | GRAMINEZ (Stapf). | 
smooth ; branches filiform, smooth, 2-na’ or solitary, the longest 
2-4 in. long, very laxly and repeatedly divided from the base, or “the 
strongest simple for }—1 in. ; branchlets and pedicels very delicate, 
capillary, flexuous, the latter 1-2 lin. long; spikelets py Pht 
1] lin. long, glabrous, ‘gored or lh with purple ; lower glum 
extremely minute scale, upper oblong almost equalling the spikelet, 
emarginate, membranous, faintly 5- ~nerved ; lower flor valve 
very eimilar to the upper Sn ae slightly longer and pcedee: 
pale equal to the valve, glabrou floret oblong 2 lin, lon ng 5 
valve rigidly membranous, Sie , obscurely 5-nerved ; “anthers 2 3-3 
lin. long. 
ERN Reoion: Natal; sandy valley near the Tugela River, 1000 f 
Buchanan, 259! * Holpmaakar Spruit, Potgeiter’s Rust” (in Natal ?), Nelson 
XXII. MELINIS, Beauv. 
Spikelets linear-oblong, small, laterally compressed, panicled, 
deciduous from the capillary pedicels ; sii floret reduced to an 
very thin’ and rigidly membranous, wget 2-lobed shining, 
obscurely 3-1-nerved with an equal, obseurely 2-nerved ale of 
similar substance. LoclLlicules 2, very delicate. Stamens 3. Styles 
free, slender : ; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. rain unknown. 
Perennial or annual (?); culms ascending from a prostrate, very eygree agp 
thoded, branched ban ; ligales reduced to a fringe of short hairs; panic 
t racted narrow, much divided, with cies branchlets and sestioels Ses nace 3 
usually purple, ae least at the tips. 
Species 1, in Brazil, tropical and subtropical Africa and Madagascar. 
Very closely allied to Tricholena. 
_l. M. minutiflora (Beauv. Agrost. 54, t. xi. f. 4) var. pilosa 
(Stapf); perennial or annual (?); culms 1-3 ft. high, more or less 
hirsute except at the upper nodes ; leaves loosely hirsute to tomentose ; 
rena tight, terete, striate, finely tu tubercled ; blades linear to linear- 
laneeolate, long tapering to a very fine point, 2-6 in. by 23-4} lin., 
rather rigid, flat or involute; panicle linear to fiusaeohiniak: con- 
tracted or r ohribel spike-like, 4-8 in. lung, erect, stiff or rather flexuous ; 
oe slender, angular, smooth below ; branches 2-nate or the lower 
ses fascicles, cei hs to 3 in. long, distantly and repeatedly 
divided from the bas : tails and pedicels eee flexuous, 
obtuse, 
lower valve, more or less tee above the base, hairs white, very fine; i 
