574 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Stipa. 
blades setaceous, canalienlate-complieate, 1 in. long, glabrous; 
panicle straight, contracted, seeund, 1 in. long; lower branches 2-nate, 
2-3-spiculate, seabrid ; spikelets bright violet, shining, glabrous, 
almost 2 lin. long; glumes 1-nerved, the lower entire, mucronate, 
1 lin. long, the upper 2-toothed, mucronate from the sinus, 2 lin. 
long; valve glabrous, 14 lin. long ; callus bearded, beard 1 lin. long, 
hairs elastic, somewhat spreading; awn disarticulating, purple, 
seabrid, over 2 lin. long, twisted to 1 of the way from the base, gently 
recurved; anthers naked. Trin. & Rupr. Stip. 53; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 129; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 812. 
Western Reoion: Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Orange 
River, Drége. 
. I meet this is not a Stipa, but a simple-awned Aristida, allied to A. wniseta, 
tapf. 
XLVII. ORYZOPSIS, Michx. 
oblong, ovoid or ellipsoid or obovoid, terete ; embryo small ; hilum 
filiform, shorter than the grain, often obscure. 
Perennial, tufted ; blades linear, usually long, flat, flaccid; ligules membran- 
ous ; panicles effuse or more or less contracted, always very lax, often nodding. 
Species about 16, in the northern hemisphere. 
1. 0. miliacea (Richter, Pl. Europ. 33); perennial, loosely tufted ; 
rhizome short, thick, innovation buds short, extravaginal, covered 
lower at length dry and scarious ; ligules very short, truncate or the 
uppermost oblong and up to 12 lin. long ; blades linear, long tapering 
to a setaceots point, up to 1 ft. long, 11—4 lin. broad, flat and flaccid, 
or rolling up when dry, more or less glaucous, glabrous oF finely 
hairy on the upper side, smooth beneath, scaberulous above or all tr 
in the upper part ; panicle large, oblong to linear, open or contracted, 
more or less nodding, } to more than 1 ft. long; axis very seni 
terete; branches few to very many in distant semiwhorls, fine y 
