546 GRAMINE (Stapf). [ Agrostis. 
Panicles very slender ; spikelets 4 lin. 
long; valve with a eaaee terminal 
awn ; culms 2-no (1) griquensis. 
Panicle Aecripient saisbeotipled or lobed ; 
spikelets 3 lin. pee valve awnless ; 
ms many-n (2) verticillata. 
esa! ov lax, or contracted ; 
ts $-1 lin. St glumes acute... (3) bergiana. 
Spikelets sont 2 lin, lon 
1a ke-like, ished rhachilla_ not 
Sobek. valve glabrous ; pale minute, : 
nerve - Se “36 Jes ... (4) natalensis. 
Panicle often with long capillary branches ; 
rhachilla shortly continued, ne often 
ristle; valve scantily pu- 
pale 2-nerved, almost epenne 
the onl i (5) barbuligera. 
Glumes s mucronate or fin ely aw ned aes (UD polypogonoides. 
Valve uticous or mucronate, “seually hairy, 
at seat poth the side-nerves (7) lachnantha. 
1. A. griquensis (Stapf in Kew Bulletin, rg 290) ; annual, 
glabrous; culms geniculate-ascending, up to ong, 2-noded ; 
leaf-sheaths smooth ; ; ligales 1 lin. long ie : dais very narrow, 
linear, acute, 1-2 in. by 4 lin., flat, green, smooth or subscaberulous 
above ; panicle erect, spike-like, very narrow, sometimes interrupted, 
1-12 in. by 2 lin. sb ranches fascicled, big unequal, the longest Up 
to 4 lin, long, hispidulous, branched from the base, adpressed to the 
rhachis ; pedicels very short ; spikelets } 1 iin. long or slightly more, 
greenish, rhachilla not produced ; glumes subequal, oblong, © obtuse oF 
subemarginate, sometimes minute iy mucronate, scaberulous, margins 
ciliolate, keels scabrid ; valve Pans oblong, not quite 2 lin. long; 
5-nerved ; callus glabrous ; awn terminal, +—1 lin. long or less; pale 
shorter by 2 mi the valve, hyaline, nerveless or almost 80 ; anthers 
1 Jin. lon - abiuk ; grain narrow-oblong, deeply grooved, » lin. long; 
tightly embraced ‘2 the delicate valve ‘and pale. 
i we ReGion: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; at Griqua Town, Burchell 
2. A. verticillata (Vill. al i Dauph. 16) ; perennial, a 
1-2 ft. high; culms geniculate, ascending or erect, sometimes T ootin 
Peters mony longer, ecabtid, branched ftom the base, straigh 3 
very short; spikelets greenish, $ lin. long ; rheche® : 
not or very obscurely produced; glumes subequal, oblong, subacute ; 
