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Phragmites. } GRAMINEH (Stapf). 541 
heteromorphous, the lowest linear-lanceolate, much longer than the 
subtending glume, otherwise of a similar structure, quite glabrous, 
persistent, the following valves very thin, linear, long and more or 
less caudate-acuminate, 3-nerved, middle nerve percurrent, side- 
nerves fine, short, callus long, slender, with very long silky hairs. 
Pales linear-oblong, about } as long as the valves, 2-keeled. 
Lodicules 2 (or sometimes 3 in the lowest floret) obovate, 9-3. nerved, 
glabrous. Stamens 3, or 2 in the lowest floret. Ovary glabrous, 
in the lowest flower rudimentary or quite suppressed ; bre pees 
rather short; stigmas laterally exserted, densely plumose. Grai 
loosely enclosed ‘by the valve and pale, free, oblong, semiteste, 
hilum oblong, short basal; embryo about 4 as long as the grai 
Perennials with a creeping rhizome, dieetvecsial innovation shoots, and tall 
sheathed annual or ete nnial culms; blades flat; ligule a narrow, ciliate, 
membranous rim ; panicle lax, usually — meee and much compound ; spikelets 
conspicuously silky from the long callus hai 
Species 1 (or 2, very closely allied), eae iouiigilibas 
more or jis dette dense or rather lax, }—-13 ft. long (in the South 
African specimens), brownish-purple or brownish- ~yellew, branched, 
fascicled or the upper solitary, the longest 3-3 ft., loosely and 
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repeatedly branched, like the ers angular and d scabrid, ultimate 
branchlets more or less terete, filiform; lateral pedicels ae 
1-2 lin. long, the terminal up = 4 lin. long ; spikelets 6-8 lin. long 
African specimens) ; glumes 13-2} lin. and 2-3} lin. 
long respectively ; lower valve blog: lites, like the following valves 
=—63 lin, =< callus to 2 lin., hairs to in,; anthers about 1 lin. 
long; grain 3 lin. long. Kunth, Enum. i. 251; Suppl. 198; Fl. 
: Mauritiana, Kunth, Rév. Py i. "977; t 50. P. bis iciie: 
ch. wo. a 8 , 
of. t. 401; Knapp, Gram. Brit, t. 95. A. vulgaris, Lam. 
Prop. iii. 615. 
gupta without eee locality, Mund §- Mi 
no Region : Cape Div.; Muiz cane Viey, Wolley Dod, 2592! Woreester 
hd between eseaislaasdat and Tulbagh, Burchell, 8642! The Straat, Drége. 
‘tenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Bcklon § Zeyher! Albany Div.; near 
Streams, Grahamstown, MacOwan, 774! Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Bawr, 923! 
