470 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [Keeleria. 
Pagar Reeion: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baw, 315! Gat Berg, 
000 ft., Baur, 1149! Natal, Buchanan, 95! 157 ! 
oun temperate regions and in highlands of the tropics. 
have refrained from ag sprgp varieties ys = chiang Aeshna grass as I 
nd the characters used f - pur ene ts author nstable, even in 
specimens from the same ‘en lity, a ing nine so mae more or less distinct 
combinations as to defy any ns boven chad ballon 
K. phleoides (Pers. Syn. i. 97); annual; culms tufted, 
geniculate, erect or ascending, from a few ‘inches to m ore than 1 ft. 
long, smooth, glabrous, 23. (rarely 4-) noded, simple or sometimes 
with a flowering branch from one of the lower r nodes; ; leaves more or 
less softly hairy to villous; sheaths rather loose or the upper tight, 
thin ; ligules hyaline, delicate toothed, up to } lin. long; blades 
linear, tapering to an acute point, 1 to more e than 6 in. by 4 “34 lin., 
flat, flaccid ; panicle ike: -like, cylindric, sometimes lobed, 4 “3 in. y 
3-7 lin. , very dense ; branches repeatedly and very shortly branched 
from near the base, glabrous and smooth like the rhachis; pedicels 
14-21 lin. long ; florets 3-7; rhachilla very shortly ciliolate, Lager 
short ; glumes glabrous or scantily pubescent, or scaberulous in the 
upper part, lower narrow, lanceolate, acute, 1-14 lin. long, 1- nara 
upper much broader, slightly longer, 3- nerved ; valves oblong, always 
entire but easily splitting to the base of the very fine mucro or awn 
(up to 11 lin. long) and then 9-toothed, 1-1: lin. long, glabrous or 
subpubescent, often scabrid, prominently 5-nerved, the upper often 
different, barren, strongly compressed and _ recurved ; anthers 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 893; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vii. 309. Festuca pheange Linn. Sp. Pl. 76. F. phleoides, Vill. 
Hist. Pl. Dauph. ii. 95, t. 2, fig. 7; Desf. Fl. Atlant. i. ~ t, 235 
Host, Gram. Austr, iii. t. 21. Pou phleoides, Lam. Ill. . 182. 
Alopecurus ciliatus, All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 235. 
Coa : Cape Div.; Green Point, Coane Wolley oe rf 76! without 
precise Secalihe. "pis Siecle dam and George District,” 
heme the Mediterranean Region to rag sei also in 
Drége’s specimens from the Hex River, distributed as K. phleoides and 
quoted by shone me under this name are, judging from the examples at Kew 
bddobase pumilum, Kunth. The two — are, indeed, very similar 1” 
appearance, pore no doubt, closely alli phleoides es may, however, be easily 
distinguished by the very minutely ciliolate (ik long hairy) rhachilla. 
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XXXII. TRISETUM, Pers. 
Spikelets usually rather small, 1-4 lin. long, in usually close, 0 often 
spike-like panicles; rhachilla ciliate or long hairy, very Tf rarely 
glabrous ; disarticulating above the glumes and _ between the 
valves, produced into a short bristle beyond the uppermost floret. 
