Lagurus.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 543 
lets imbricate, 21-3 lin. long (exclusive of the bristles) ; continuation 
of rhachilla pubescent ; glumes linear-lanceolate, white, plumose 
from near the base to the tips of the bristles ; valve linear-lanceolate, 
long and finely acuminate in profile, 2-3 lin. long, glabrous, awne 
from the middle ; awn fine, 4-8 lin. long ; anthers $ lin, long; grain 
11 lin. long. Schreb. Beschr. Graes. 143, t. 19, 9, fig. 3; rie Gram. 
Austr. li. t. 46; Sibth. § Sm. Fl. Grec. t. 90; Engl. Bot. 1334 ; 
Beauv. Agrost. 35, t. vili. fig. 12; Kunth, Enum. 1.295 ; , Sapel Q47 
Trin. Agrost. 251, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersh. sér. 6, v. "272 ; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 183; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 832. 
Coast Rraion: Cape Div.; Herrschel Lane, in a gravel pit, wily ey Dod, 
1840! King Williamstown Div.; ; Amatola Mountains, Eavkona 27 
Evidently introduced, 
XLIL POLYPOGON, Desf. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in dense spike-like, often lobed, ai 
Sanbouk ie from the pedicels; rhachilla disarticulating below the 
lv 
-lob 
glumes, very thin to hyaline, glabrous, trancate, faintly or obscurely 
5-nerved, the lateral nerves shortly excurrent or evanescent within 
the hyaline e tips; awn very fine, atone deciduous, subterminal, 
sometimes reduced to a mucro or 0. Pale 2-keeled, slightly shorter 
than the Pie rarely much shorter. Lodicules 2, delicate. Stamens 
y glabrous ; ; styles distinct, very short ; stigmas laterally 
exserted, necadly plu mose. (Grain oblong, subterete or slightly 
grooved, enclosed by the unaltered valve and pale ; hilum short; 
sre ry0 small. 
nal or subperennial ; blades flat, Met ret nae sheath often tumid ; spikelets 
3 lin, ting: often hidden by the num 
Species t n America, 1 in peed Kr ‘bios widely dispersed over the 
warm regions of both emiaperes 
Awn of glumes 2-3 "hs ong; valve bie 
2—4-mucronulate, ver : gti rely nerved; nik, 
long as the valves or shorter orO... .. (1) monspeliensis. 
Awn of glumes finely capillary, up to 1 i » Ton ong 5 
ed 
b ; 
fine short bristles; awn very fine, up to 5 lin. iy (2) tenuis. 
tumid, glabrous, smooth ; ligules searious, oblong. aa cilio- 
late te, 11 3 lin. long ; bindes linear, tapering to a eallous gee ike 
Ff ; ep 
teen or straw-coloured ; Gedsieton es alae numerous bra nee from 
the base, scaberulous ; lateral pedicels extremely short, disarticulating 
hear the base ; spi ikelets 1 lin. long; glumes subequal, linear or 
oblanceolate-oblong, shortly 2-lobed or emarginate, scaberulous, 
