F 
fei 
598 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Hragrostis. 
Palais ied tufted with innovation-shoots ; 
culm 
Rhachilla Dersstnt spikelets 2-6 lin.; valves 
ong (36) brizoides. 
Rhachilla readily disarticulating ; ; “spikelets 13-4 
lin. ; valves 3-1 lin, long: 
Sheath hid A Reber shoots covered mo 
with fugacious dak ipikelens 
crowed on very short pedicels or sub- 
ee broadly truncate, their broad upper 
halves closely imbricate, sides rather flat (37) truncata. 
Valves freer pert, loosely imbricate, 7 
ides rather (38) bergiana. 
ved = inuovation-shoot not covered with 
wool; spikelets more or less 
ate on cailany branchlets and 
padinets (39) obtusa. 
**Biennial os annual, without or with very 1 few feeble 
ulms simple or branched : 
nn fal culms simple; valves obtuse .., .. (40) brizantha. 
Biennial ; wile branched ; valves acute .. (41) echinochloidea. 
Section 3. Lappuna, Stapf. eae oblong, with long rigid tubercle- based 
cilia me the side-nerves of the valves.} 
Only species... bas i on ns ... (42) Lappula. 
Section 4, Caractastos, Doell. Spikelets of various shape, small to very 
small, with glabrous valves, oe up into false fruits, consisting of the grain 
enclosed by its valve and pal 
Fs ayo thy ng isi ms spies crane on 
edice .. (43) aspera. 
ho 
Perennial ; valves ‘ iin, on oe ee gummifiua, 
Annual; valves 4 lin. lon shor : 
Keels of pales long and rigidly ¢ cline stamens 3 re ensngsne 
Keels of pales smooth ; sta -- (46) namaquens’s. 
1. E. glabrata (Nees in Linnea vii. 332) ; etsy culms in 
fascicles on the slender branches of a long creeping slender rhizome, 
or from similar stolons, with barren branches from the lower sheaths, 
. lon mp 
2 ? 
ee to oblong, acute, 23-33 lin. by 1-1} lin., densely 
flowered, dark olive-grey ; rhachilla tardily disarticulating ; 
