ee eee a ee ee I ee en eae ee ee 
Polypogon.] GRAMINE (Stapf). 545 
bristles, =i inner into obscure mmucres, nerves almost taspysuag 
below; awn very fine, up to 5 lin. long; pale 2-toothed, * lin. lon 
anthers La ae long ; grain oblong, not quite 2 lin. long, as 
finely channelled. P. Adscensionis, Trin. Agrost. 257 ; Steud. Syn. 
Ee | 
strictus, Nees in Linnea, vii. 297 Afr. Austr. 145; Ku nth, 
Enum. i. 234 ; Trin. Agrost. 255 ; pa he ‘Le. 183 ; Durand § Schinz, 
1c. 826, 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div.; Cape sand-dunes, Zeyher, 1805! Cape Flats, 
Burke! Dorn Hoogte, Heklon, iesbeck River, Ber: gis, poses ve bine 
ulbag 
iv.; Witzen B tog Week Vallei, Ecklon, Caledon Div. ; near Caledon, 
Thom, 852! Shien Div.; ditches near ne ficbe-ptopeln River, Beklon ! Port 
Elizabeth Div. ; Port Elizabeth, Z.S.C.A. Herb. 175! 
CentRaL Recion: Aliwal North Div.; in a cave on the Witte Bergen, 6000 ft., 
bye! 
Ds rége’s specimens from the Witte Bergen represent a very starved state, 
described by Nees as var. speleus 
Also in Ascension Island. 
XLUI. AGROSTIS, Linn. 
Spikelets from less than 1 lin. to 2} lin. long, panicled ; rhachilla 
not continued beyond the floret or produced into a care point or 
short delicate bristle, aed orshortly hairy. Floret 1, $, shorter 
than the glumes, Glum s equal or subequal, neually tlocoiate and 
acute, rarely oblong and Shido awnless a erapi in A. polypogonoides), 
m Tanous, usually l-nerved, keel Valve broadly oblong, 
or 
or obsolete, 2-nerved or nerveless. Lodicules 2, lanceolate, delicately 
yaline, Stamens 3. Ova ry glabrous; styles ‘dist tinct, very short ; 
stigmas plumose, lates § exsert Sa rite free, enclosed in the 
Scarcely altered floret, oblong, m or less dorsally compressed, 
or in front, rarely subterete ; atibeys non hilum punctiform, 
, Annuals or perennials, of varying habit ; blades wey flat, often flaccid ; 
igules teste aor ous; panicle usually mach Pee often delicate, more or re 
Vale 5-nerved, uaa awned; awn disable very short, rarely O (in A. 
verticillate, a): 
Glumes 
Spikelets i lin 
Pan - ni ig backe ke spikelets 3-3 
ong; glumes obtuse, mu- 
edontals or ema pi ‘ 
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