Culms many-noded with the leaves aes crowded at the 
base ; ligule a ciliate rim ; rhachilla produced . (1) Dactylon. 
Culms 2-3-noded d; ligule igi re ; nati not 
produced... nee , : . (2) incompletus. 
1. C. Dactylon (Pers. Syn. i. 85); culms from a few inches t 
1 ft. long, slender, glabrous, smooth, many-noded, the lower ante 
nodes very short, enclosed, the upper 3-4 much longer, more or less 
exserted ; leaves usually ‘conspicuously distichous in the barren 
shoots and at the base of the culms; sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, 
often bearded at the mouth; ligule a ae fine ciliate rim; blades 
linear, finely acute to pungent, 1-6 in. by 1-1} lin., very rigid to 
flaccid, folded or convolute or flat, more or less glaucous, glabrous or 
hairy, smooth below, scaberulous above spikes a6 straight, 1-31 in, 
long ; rhachis pubescent at the base, keel and margins scabrid or the 
keel smooth ; spikelets light green or purplis — ay lin. long ; 
rhachilla produced, very slender, equalling 2 t ength of the 
spikelet ; glumes lanceolate, acute to subulate- ie the lower 
634: GRAMINEE (Stapf). [Cynodon. 
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anthers oblong, 2 lin. ie grain + lin. long. Kunth, Enum. i. 
Suppl. 203, 16, fig. 1; Reichb, Ic. Fl. Germ. rh 26, fig. alae 
Nees, Fl ays Austr, 241; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 212; Engl. — 
Hochgebirgsf. Trop. Afr. 132; Durand ae Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. ™ 
v. 856; Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. A. 11,79; B.78; C.110. C. linearis, 4 
Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 90. C. oie Willd. ht. 3 Kunth, Le. 
60. C. pascuus, Nees, Agrost. Bras. 425; Kunth, lc. 259; Nees, 
Fi. Afr, Austr. 243 ; Steud. Syn eae Glum. i. 212; Durand & Schin®, 
Dactylon, Linn Sp. Pl. 58 ; “Thunb Prodr. i. 1 ap. ed. 
Schult. 103; Host, ay Austr. ii, 15, t. 18; Engl. Bot. t. 850; 
ipp, Gram. Brit. t. 13. on officinale, Vill. Hist Pil. 
. Daet ; 
Dauph. ii. 69 ; ie $ Schweinf. Ill, Fl. Ligypte, 170. Digitaria 
pri ee =. Fil. Carn. ed. ii. 55) D. ak ae Schrad. Hl. 
wl 
Div. ; i itreatitots and wh chee nea > One, Ecklon, 967! sandy sae ain! 
Green Point, Ecklon, 764! Platt Klipp, near ae 2 be Wilms, 3874 ! roa 
towards Constantia Nek, Wolley Dod, 2473! Paarl Div. ; near Paarl, in wet — 
places, Drége. Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, pie Uitenhage Divs — 
grassy places by the Zw papi River, tei near Uitenh . > 
42291 Port Elizabeth Div.: on the dunes near Port Eli east, below 100 ft.» — 
Drége! go Herb. 93! Queenstown Div. ; ; plains near Queenstown, 3500 
CENTRAL ype : Somerset Div.; among shrubs, near Somerset East, 4 
19. 
STERN ReGIon: Little cheese eon oe the right bank of the Orange a 
ow 500 ft., Dr, j 
Katanarr Rxe@ion Orn Free Sta seals Kimberley and Bloem- 
fontein, Buchanan, 289! patti bee ’ Rehmann, 8549! Bechuanaland 
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