580 GRAMINEA (Stapf). [ Sporobolus. 
usually setaceously convolute ; goes ie am or spike- ; 
like, rather dense ;_ spikelets ts 14-2} li lin. long . (8) centrifugus. 
ich 
4-1 ft. long; panicle narrow, oblong, 5-14 ft. long, 
with age lower oe oe spreading and 
13 i . long, o 
Doge po tg janatiag or slightly exceeding the 
valve : | 
Panicle at ie i aga lax ; blades 3-4 lin. ; 
broad, most] .. (9) Rehmannl. 
Spikelets crowded. 0 e branchlet ets, ofte 
3 blades Bid siinek narrower cai : 
: (10) fimbriatus. | 
Upper peak slightly exceeding 4 ‘of the valve ; hot 
anicle narrowly oblong or spike-like .. (11) indicus. 
Culms very many-noded, from a creeping stoloniferous 
favo ; leaves often apparently subopposite ; blades | 
t 
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ostly short, subpungent ; aoe cle more or less 
bare spike-like —... ; .. (12) pungen 
Section 2. CHmToRHACHIA (Staph. Rhachilla eae Wes! into a = half 
as aa ne almost as long as the flore 
Only species ons eek ed . (13) subtilis. 
1. §. albicans (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. ore) tufted ; culms : 
1-6 in. long, — glabrous, smooth, 1-2 noded, sheathed almost all | 
along; basal leaves densely imbricate ; ; shenths glabrous, smoot th, 
the tomex short, broad, the upper long, very tight ; ligule a ciliolate 
riin ; blades lanceolate to linear, usually i involute and sabpungent , 
the lowest 2-3 lin. by 1 lin. (when expanded), the upper up to lj in. & 
broad, rigid, glabrous, smooth below, densely a ar? and almos ‘7 
white above; panicle spike-like, 11 -2 in. long, e branches | 
solitary, adpressed to the rhachis, up to 9 lin. ean pa a laxly | 
branched, smooth; pedicels capillary, as long as the spikelets o" 
lanceolate-oblong, obtuse to aabecilts l-nerved, equalling 3-% 
es valve chtong, gs re 3 -nerved ; pale slightly — 
mens 3; anthers + lin. ae grain ¢ globose- ellipsoid, very slight y 
dirasieien, rounded = the back, 3 lin. long, pericarp delicate 
mucilaginous ; albumen opa que. Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. 
v. nie Vilfa wiisienka: Trin. Agrostid. 79 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Gum. 
Bow, 00 Bee Queenstown Div. ; between Table Mountain and Wildschuts 
2. S. tenellus (Kunth, Enum. i. 215); perennial, <a 
cespitose ; rhizome much br anched ; branches short, densely cove™ 
with the imbricate pereiiiaye sheath-bases and sheaths; culms eal 
very slender, 2-6 in. long, glabrous, smooth, 1-noded ; sheaths hs of the" 
ren shoots and rae ‘leaves short, broad, closely imbricate, 
glabrous, smooth, of the culms narrow, tight scarcely striate ; ligt 
