Oryzopsis.] GRAMINEE (Stapf). 575 
filiform to capillary, fag ae lower 2-6 i in, long, often undivided 
to } their length from a base : ; branchlets few, subracemose, con- 
tracted ; pedicels S very — the lateral usually very short ; spike- 
lets pe -lanceolate, greenish or tinged with purple, 11-13 lin, long ; 
glumes acuminate, cubhnek broad when expanded, 3- to ae 5-nerved, 
side-nerves very short ; valve obovate to oblong, 1 lin. long, smooth, 
glabrous, rigidly membranous, whitish, 3-nerved ; awn a very fine 
and caducous flexuous bristle, 11-2 lin. long; lodicules 2, oblanceo- 
late; anthers 3 lin. long, tips very minutely penieillate ; grain 
obovoid- ear; over 2 lin, long, terete. Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
l. Afr. v. 812. Agrostis miliacea, Linn. Sp. Plant. 61; Host, 
Gram. fi iii. ¢.45; Reichb, Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t, 45, fig. 1 1459. Milium 
multifiorum, Cav, Descr. 36. M. arundinaceum, Sibth. § Smith, 
Fl. Gree. Prod. i.45; Fl. rae i. t. 66. Piptatherum multiflorum, 
Beauv. Agrost. 18; "Kunth, Enum. i. 177. P. miliaceum, Coss. 
Pl. Crit. fase. 3, 129. Drache ball ice Trin. Fund. Agrost. Ls 
Stip. AM and wn Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, v. 10; Steud, Syn. P 
Glum. i, 121. 
: it i Reaion: Orange Free State, without precise locality, Buchanan, 
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A uative of the Mediterranean region, elsewhere introduced. 
XLVIII. PEROTIS, Ait. 
Spikelets very small, narrow, sessile or subsessile on the continuous 
axis of a spike ora lax spike -like raceme, jointed on and falling entire 
from the axis or the ees pedicels ; rhachilla not continued 
beyond the floret. Floret , much shorter than the glumes. 
Glumes equal, linear or eet ope rigidly membranous, 1- 
herved, passing into capillary awns. Valve lanceolate, acute, delicately 
: hyaline, L-nerve - Pale very minute, hyaline nerveless. Lodicules 
ae eng th of the grain ; hilum gears basal. 
i Sesh settee nee leafy; blades usually broad, rigid and ciliate ; 
gules hy aline ; spikes or pseudo-spikes slender, crinite from the long capillary 
aie 2 or 3, in the tropics of the Old World and in subtropical Australia. 
Ss 
suberect, ores A often f from a few inc ae s to 12 in. long, smooth 
glabrous, man ny-noded, si internodes short, not or slightly exendely 
uppermost 1 or 2 by far the longest, long exser eaves rather 
erous in the lower 1 1 of the palais cei thin n, striate, smooth ; 
Hgales very delicate, short, ered yi ; blades linear-lancevlate to ovate- 
lanceolate from a clasping broad base, acu ee or acuminate, 3—3 in. b 
a4 in., flat or somewhat w wary: elancou , margins rigidly "ciliate or 
fimbriate, rarely smooth; spike eases. rigid or flexuous, 3-8 in. 
