Diplachne.| GRAMINES (Stapf). 593 
D. pallida, founded on Rehmann, 5371, represents a state with strictly erect 
culms and pale spikelets. Similar erect states occur in India, and particularly in 
Australia, along with the ordinary form. 
ciliolate rim 3 blades linear, tapering to an acute point, 3-7 in. by 
2~3 lin., rigidly erect, flat or convolute, with scattered stiff hairs, 
particularly near the base, rough b ides, glaucous ; panicle 
contracted, obovate to linear-oblong, 2-6 in. long, glaucous, purplish ; 
thachis seabrid angular; branches simple, solitary or paired, sub- 
flexuous, bearing spikelets from the base or almost so, lowest up 
to 2 in. long; spikelets 2-3-flowered, subsecund, 2-ranked, lower 
slightly exceedin 
pedicelled, about 21 lin. long; glumes subequal, lanceolate, acute, 
4 Jin, 
Var. 6, Buchanani (Stapf); spikelets rather more distant, 4 lin, long; all 
parts proportionally larger and at the same time more slender. 
LAHARI ReGIon: Transvaal; Makapaus Mountains, at Streyd Poort, 
Rehmann, 5386! Var. 6: Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 219! pe 
‘ASTERN ReGion: Natal; mountain slopes near Umpumulo, 2500 ft., 
Buchanan, 282! 
Rather different from the other species of the genus, and perhaps not a true 
Diplachne. 
4. D. paucinervis (Stapf ex Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 232) ; 
Perennial, tufted ; culms densely fascicled with numerous innovation 
: a descending rhizome (covered with papery scales), 
aistichously leafy all along, slender, 3-1 ft. long, pubescent below 
€ pa ise g 
=" 
o 
° 
oe 
an 
a] 
‘0 obovate-oblong, contraeted, dense, erect, 1-2 in. long, light green ; 
tLachis angular, scabrid, very finely puberulous and sometimes also 
"ith seattered long hairs; branches solitary or geminate, adpressed 
OL. VI, Qq 
