542 GRAMINE# (Stapf). [ Phragmites. 
RAL Re@ron: Somerset Div.; near Somerset oh Cooper, -1506! 
Gra Reinet Div.; banks of the Sunday River, Burchell, 2863 
ARI Region: Hopetown Div.; banks of the Orange River, Burchell, 
2667/3! gg io Div. 3 banks of the Ora ange River, Burchell, 1636! Orange 
Free State, Cooper, 3355! Basutoland ; Leribe, Buchanan, 122! Transvaal, 
near thang iene 8 aa ! ' 
; common hay i a8 re colony, Buchanan, 273° 
at neg pond aA ‘the Uenicikela River, Drége! near Durban, Cooper, 3354: 
Drége! Inanda, Umhlanga Valley, Wood, "1335! Suther ‘land ! 
Almost cosmopolitan. 
Imperfectly known species. 
2. P. nudus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 356) was described from very 
imperfeet, young specimens, collected by Drege, ag ee! 
s i cality. Durand & Schinz in Consp, FI. Atr, v. 876 refer 
nuda to the preceding species. Nees says ee is main ‘als 
Cr ciesichand by the very long hairs of the ligule. 
3. P. Xenochloa = ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 196. oy: 
arundinacea, Lichtenst. in Roem, & Schult. Syst. - 501). 
deseription is quite insufficient to aseertain the genus; but ie is 
possibly a Danthonia. It was collected by ido A in Bechuana- 
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XLI, LAGURUS, Linn. 
Spikelets laterally eompressed, in compact veal softly villous 
panicles ; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes, more or 0S 
continued beyond the floret, terminating with or Hee nr a rudi 
mentary valve. Floret 1 (very rarely 2), 2 shorter than the glumes. 
Glumes subequal, very narrow, gradually attenuate into a bristle, 
hyaline, plumose. Valve membranous, long acuminate, 5-nerve’s 
tips 2- seem finely awned from the back; callus ainall, minutely 
airy. Pale 2-nerved, somewhat shorter than the valve ” Lodicules 
2, hyaline. Stamens 3. Ovary gees styles dist Finct, short j 
sr 1, in the Medi Kaeiatientn countries. 
1. L. ovatus (Linn. Spec. Pl. 81); culms eeiant suberect oF 
geniculate, ascending, from a few inches to m n 1 ft. long, 
very finely tomentose or pubescent (at least tei fies  aatites few- 
noded ; upper internodes ase i Agetinnes very long and slender + 
a 
upper tumid, lower mem ‘ious, whito 
hyaline, pubescent ; blades linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, very 
variable in size, from 1-7 in. by 1-7 lin., flat, soft, margins hoes 
wavy; paniele oblong or ovate to globose, compact, 3-2} in, longs 
branches, branchlets and pedicels puberulous or scaberulous 3 spike 
