468 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [Anthowanthum. 
floret almost equal and similar to the preceding, but slightly narrower, 
empty, with a kneed and twisted awn 4—5 lin. long from near he 
base of the valve; anes floret g,1 lin. long, faintly 3-1- 
nerved ; anthers 1} lin. lon Ataxia Tongo, Trin. Phalar. 32. 
A. tenuis, Trin. l.c. (a very meak state) ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 18. 
Hierochloa Tongo, vars. minor and simplex, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
8. H. tenuis, Durand § He Consp. Fl. Afr. Austr. v. 798. 
ast Rreion: Cape Div. ; Devils Peak, Nth the second ha cere ag oe 
in damp clefts of rocks near the top of a hill ce assenbosch and Orange 
Kloof, eles Ded, 91949 | cies Milles Point, Wolley Dod, 2853! Paarl Div. ; 
Paarl Moun s, 2000-3 3000 ft., Drége! Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass 
fb., Seiehtor, 727 ! Worcester Div. ; in Dutoits Kloof at Pastiataeticael: in 
shady places, Drége ! 
XXXII. KELERIA, Pers. 
Spikelets laterally compressed in spike-like oc nar rhachilla 
glabrous or finely hairy, disartieulating above the glume and between 
the valves, produced with or witho ut a deaeirgeaeint vada) Florets 
1-5, 3, or the uppermost more or less reduced. Glumes 2, persistent, 
subequal or unequal, subacute to seseriieaine keeled, the lower usually 
l-nerved or like the upper 3-nerved, margins hyaline. Valves 
exceeding the glumes, acute or obtuse with the gr and =P 8 
u 
short subterminal awn ; callus very minute, pe ous. Pales hase 
than the valves or almost as long, 2-keeled, 2- pate meas” 
hyaline and white. Lodicules 2, hyaline. Stam 3. ary 
glabrous ; styles distinet, very sho rt, stigmas teat exserted, 
plumo e. Grain oblong, laterally compressed, whitish, soft, tightly 
embraced by the et back of the valve; hilum basal, short, 
obscure ; embryo sm 
nnial or annual 5 _ blades usually | very narrow ; ys ee panicl 
ust: ally. cylindric, e hyaline white 
margins of the valves and pales, or more or pie ‘eit 
Species 12-15, ae in Europe, North Africa, aia temperate Asia, 1 species 
almost cosmopolita 
Perennial ; ial awnless ; valves 3-nerved (1) cristata. 
Annual ; valves 5-nerved, > finely aw cad. or mucrouate from 
below the tips . rm .. (2) phleoides. 
1. K. cristata (Pers, ret A on); perennial, densely ceespitose + 
culms erect, rarely geniculately ascending, 3 ft. to more than 1 ft. 
long, glabrous or villous, pubescent, 1—2-noded, es internodes 
t 
Mer 
tight, striate, glabrous or pubescent to villous, the lower more oF less 
persistent ; ligule obtuse, minutely ciliolate, rarely more than } lin. 
long, usually produced into lateral auricles; "lie linear, acute, ‘from 
Lin. to 1 ft. long, to 1 lin. broad, flat, soft and even flaccid, or setaceously 
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