592 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Diplachne. 
longest 3-5 in., usually racemose; pedicels short; spikelets distant 
by half their length or more, narrow, oblong, 3- 5 lin long, 5-10- 
flowered, ns dark olive- -grey, rarely light or whitish ; ” glumes 
lanceolate to oblong, obtuse or acute, often obseurely mucronate, 
the lower about 1 lin, long, the upper 14-2 lin. ; valves oblong, 
tips broad, entire or minutely emarginate, and with a tooth on one 
or both sides, middle and side-nerves excurrent into a short or 
obseure muero, or only the former, side-nerves silkily ciliate i 
eallus hardly any; pales minutely 2-toothed, flaps hairy along t 
keels; anthers 4 lin. long ; grain.o ong, dorza y compressed, up 7 
1 lin, ‘long; e mbryo almost 1 the length of the grain. Aschers. § 
Shui, Il. Fl. Egypte, 17 ‘1: Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. a 
878 ; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 25; Hook. f. in Fi. 
Brit. Ind. vii. 329. D. livida, Nees, Fl. Afr. ‘Austr. 254, D 
. alba, 8 
@’ Lgypte, 24, t. xi romus pol: ystachyus, Porat. Fi. igypt. - 
23. Leptochloa fusca, Kunth, Rév . 91; Enum. 
271 ; Suppl. 223. Tridens capensis, Nees fe tea, vii. 324. 
ties Jusca, Steud. Syn, Pl. Glum. i, 24 U. livida, Steud 
Le, 248. 'U. ( ie 
248. Triodia livida, Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. 
T. capensis, Durand § Schinz, le. 
a we gy Cape Div. Aes Flats, in moist sandy places, MacQwan, 
eee . Afr. 1795! and at Doorn Hoo, oogte, Ecklon / near Muizenberg Vley, 
Wolly y Ded, 2354! 2355! about the ponds near Cape Town and at Salt River, 
Burchell, 678! Mossel Bay Div. ; in a dry channel of an arm of the Gauritz 
as Poo reo 
River, Burch l, 6473! oorn Div.; Gamk rt, Y Maire 
Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Zeyher / Poicueg the oe River, Ecklon 
a : nee s a r Graham 2000 ft., MacOwan, 
315! and iu places near Grahs amstown, MacOwan, 1315b! King 
Williamstown Div. Maite Mouutaths. Buchanan, 36! Knysna Div.; Pletten- 
berg Bay, Mund § Maire ! omgha Div. ; near Komgha, Flanagan 952! Queens- 
te Div.; between Table Mountain. A Zwart Kei River, 4000-4500 ft., 
rege 
CenrraL Region: Prince Albert Div.; ; Near Suge one e, 2300-3000 
Drége! Somerset Div.; at Blyde River, Burchell, 2963! betw io the za 
Berg Range and Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 2000-2400 ft., Drage. raaff 
Div. ; Sneeuwberg, on the banks of rivulets, 3700 ft., Bolus, for near Graaft 
ESTERN ReGion: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily 
Fontein, 3000-4000 ft., Drége ! 
kI Reeion: Griqualand West, Herbert Div. ; along the Vaal River, 
Burchell, 1778! and mecha "pape ge Burchell, 1808! Basutoland ; Leribe. 
Buchanan, 185! Bechuanaland; at Kosi Fontein, Burchell, 2555! Tran nsvaal 
pe iC Klippan, pt omni 537 1! by the Sand River, at Olifants Poort, 
Nelson, 85 
dvd spread throughout the warm regions of the Old World, mainly near 
the water 
Nee oo 4 varieties of his D. a thy mainly by the colour of writ 
ices: and the more or less contracted state of the peniale. They appear 
me only to be slight variations and differen "é ‘giadee ok of development. 
