544A GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Polypogon. 
it sas coa nerves very prams awn as ae as the valve or 
shorter or 0 ; pale 2-toothed or s-udtiarcesabate, almost as long as the 
valve; anthers }—1 lin. long; grain oblong, } lin. long, subterete or 
terete, obscurely ved. Beau Agrost. 17, 8; Kunth, 
num. i. 232; Suppl. 181, t. xiii. fig. 7; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr 143; 
Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i.t. 31, fig. 1416; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 
402 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 184; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. 11. 10. 
44, #126. P.m onspeliensis var. capensis, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 466. 
P. polysetus, Steud. lc. 467. Phleum crinitum, Schreb. Beschr. 
Graes. i. 151, ¢. 20, fig. 3; Sidth. A Sm. Fl. Gree. i. 46, A 2, 
Alopecurus monspeliensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 61; Thunb. Prodr.19._ A. 
paniceus, Linn. l.c. ed. ii. 90, Agrostis panicea, Ait. Hort. "eae 
i. 94; Engl. Bot. t. 1704, 
Sourn Arrica: without precise ime, Thunberg ! mous 
Coast Region: Vanrhynsdorp Div Fah omg below ae th Use 
3; Simons B 
Hoogte, Hosacks Platz, and Van Kamps Bey) Ecklon, 
S* Zeyher! shore near Muizenberg, Wolley Dod, 2085! Tulba oH Div. » Palbegh 
Waterfall, Ecklon. dicate ghd Pst Buffeljagts River, Gill! Mosse sei Bex Div. ‘ 
ee uyker River and eet Burchell, 6385! Uitenhage Div.; 
Zwartkops River, Ecklon. Port “Bl eibeth — v.; Port es ea Drége, B.8.C.A 1 
Herb, 147! Albany Div.; Brand y Grahamsto MacOwan, 1281! 
ping Williamstown Zig oe saqoee a Buchanan, 13 | “i Queenstown Div. 
Zwart Kei River, Baw ff 
Teeigll Wrier scans ed ; Camdeboo Mountains, Drége. Grae 
Reinet Div.; banks of the S snes ay River, near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 1 
ESTERN ih ittle Namsqualued : banks of the Orange vel near 
Katanart Rxciow: oe Tae West ; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1910! Orange 
Free ehoshas, Comer, fpge pee 
Metal a 3520! 
ee common heoughot the Mediterranean region to India, introduced into 
most warm countri 
All the mes a goor: which I have seen, with the exception of MacGillivray ® 8 
from Simon’s Bay, have the glumes more distinctly 2-lobed than is the case ! 
Mediterranean P. monspetienss but -~ ; same time less than in P. marit wre 
They are also more ciliate, May ‘tear lready remarked, The Poly hs My 
however, is on the whole ‘iad of tppiesk. P. U eentaeit iensis 
2. P. tenuis (Brongn. in. Duperr. Voy. Coq 22); annual ; 
culms erect or geniculately ascending, 3-2 ft. Ta ‘simple, ee 
branched above the base, glabrous, anos 3- (ra rarely 4-5-) 
0 
A ; e 
valve shortly 2-lobed, outer side-nerves excurrent into short fin 
