480 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Avena. 
Austr. 352 ; aes Icon, Fl. Germ. i. t. 103, fig. er Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 230 ; Sowerby, nie Gr. Brit. 126, 109 ; Schweinf. 
in. Bull. Herb, es. li, App. tig 31; Durand 5 Schinz, Consp. 
Fl. Afr. v. 842. 
t Region: Cape Div.; Table Mountain and Lion Mountain, Ecklon 
50, 52, 925! by the railway near Rondebosch, Wolley Dod, 1903! 
A widely-spread weed of Mediterranean origin. 
4. A. barbata (Brot. Fl. Lusit. i. 108); stems erect, usually 
2-3 from a dense tuft of barren shoots, glabrous; leaf-sheaths 
villous to gabrescent See broad-ovate, up to 2 lin. long ; blades 
linear, up to 9 in. by , but usually shorter and much ‘narrower, 
villous to glabreseent, ants: panicle or racemes up to % ft. long, 
finely filiform, flexuous; spikelets 9-14 lin. long, 2-3-flowered, 
2-3-awned, 7-9-ne rved ; rhachilla freely disarticulating below and 
ety the valves , joints between the valves villous; glumes lanceolate, 
acuminate; valves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, bifi obes pro- 
duced into fine bristles, the lowest 6- 9 lin. long (excluding the bristles), 
pallid to brown below the long whitish scarious tips, densely covere 
with fine stiff whitish or yellowish hairs to the middle, scaberulous, 
7-nerved, all awned except the uppermost ; awn from the middle, 
scabrid, column dark; anthers 1-11 lin. long; ovary villous all 
over ; grain tightly embraced, free, slender, oblong, 3-4 lin. long, 
silky. Coss. et Dur. Expl. Algér. ii. 112; Durand Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 840. A. hirsuta, Roth, Catal. Bot. iii. 19 ; Kunth, 
Enum. i.302; Trin. Gram. Suppl. 25 ; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 352 ; 
Webb, Phyt. Canar. iii. 400, ¢. 247 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i . 230; 
Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. iii. 99, t. 29, fig. 1. 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; by the railway near Rondebosch, Wolley Dod, _ 
Worcester Div.; Hex River, Drage. Mossel Bay Div ; Gaurit z River, Dreg 
Throughout the Mediterranean region, introduced scehine. 
XXXV. PENTASCHISTIS, Stapf. 
Spikelets from slightly over 1 lin. to 6 lin. long, very rarely longe?, 
laterally compressed, ener panicled; rhachilla disarticulating 
above the glumes and between the valves, continued as a us ly 
us, 
hairs seriate between the nerves, or glabrous excepting the always 
shortly hairy small callus, finely or obscurely 5~9-nerved, 2-lobed, 
awned from the sinus ; lobes with a fine bristle from the inner angle, 
to which they are usually more or less adnate or pass gs “— 
very small, rarely 3—4-fid with all the divisions bristle-lik 
2-keeled, 2- toothed, sane or less equalling the valves (exclusive 0 of 
the lobes). Lodicules 2, small, cuneate, nerved, usually g labrous. 
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