590° GRAMINEX (Stapf). | Pogowarthria. 
valves lanceolate in protile, oblong when expanded, acutely acuminate 
or mucronulate, 1 lin, long; callus very minute, obtuse, glabrous; 
pales 1 lin. long; keels scabrid ; lodicules } lin. kong : ag 
’_1 lin, long; grain linear-oblong ‘oval in cross section, $ lin 
Stapf i in Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2610. rie aes Jalcata, Hack. ¢ in ; Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. ii. 586, and iv. App. 21. Eragrostis sp., Nees 
in Linnea, xx. 255. EL. Marlothii, Hack in Engl. Jahrb. xi, 404 
(from the description). 
LA ION : Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; St. Clair, rie 
Orpen, 256! Hay Div.; at the foot of the neo Mountains, between the 
Kloof Village and Witte Water, Burchell, 2101! Orange Free State, Olifants 
Fontein, Rekmann, 3514! ro n sy hills by pe reat Vet River a 
Little 4000-5000 {t. , : ! 
Rehmann, 3753! Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 128! Trausvaal; Bosch Veld, 
between Eland River and Klippan, Rehmann, 5118! near Lydenburg, Atherstone, 
int 
TERN Reoion: Natal; Tugela River, 600 ft., Buchanan, 242! at Umlaas 
Drift, “Wo od, 1910! 
Also in tropical South Africa as far as the Zambesi. 
LI. DIPLACHNE, Beauv. 
Spikelets ged pedicelled or subsessile, somewhat distant or 
remote on the simple slender branches of a panicle; rhaehilla 
disarticulating fis the glumes and between the Valea, glabrous. 
Florets 2-10, 3, or the uppermost reduced. Glumes unequal ot 
suboasal,. 2 Sm a l-nerved, keeled, persistent. Valves oblong 
the lower pate of p Bigs ves or aninetiines quite pene side- 
nerves percurrent or Mrscat (or sometimes very shortly) excurrent. 
Pales 2-keeled, sahorjet than the valves. Lodicules 2, cuneate, fleshy, 
nerved. Stam 3. vary glabrous; styles distinct, slender ; 
stigmas p. pias. Siteesliy exserte ted. Grain enclosed by the slightly 
altered valve and ae oblong to obovoid-oblong eee eer 
engt 
of see grain; hilum um pun inctiform 
ostly perennial, nese am Bickle coarse grasses; blades long, rnc =~ 
or "tavele pe ce Soom sometimes reduced to a rim; panicles 
sisting of sen ally long, simple, loosely spike-like and more or “ess 
distant rae oy 3 peer light or olive-green, often tinged with purple anf 
Z — about 12, mainly in the warm regions of the Old World and in North 
merica 
The genus, as usually understood, consists of Soe i ag elemen = 
— given here applies to about a dozen species which erie "youn 
D. fascicularis, Beauv., on which the ‘ne a founded ; rn definition 35; 
cones, not quite manasa * some of the American species and the species 
of the D. serotina group req he pone 
Culms erent or ascen ding, or y 3-5- 
n blades 3-9 in, Soli: mace - sgn Sieiet 
never pungen mt : 
