eT ee ee 
Dactyloctenium.] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 647 
Baker, Fl. Maurit. 452; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. 
ii. 34; Durand & Badas Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 868. D. mucronatum, 
Willd., lie. ; Trin. Sp. i gas re ee 69 ; Nees, fl. Afr. Austr. 150 ; 
C. 
Le. ; Durand §& Schinz, lc. 869. Cynosurus egyptius, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 72. Cenchrus egyptiacus, Beauv. Agrost. 157. Rabdochloa 
b6 
mucr ee: Beauv. l.c. 176. Eleusine egyptiaca, Desf. FI. Atl.i. 85 ; 
ring f. Fl. Ind. vii. 295, F.. cruciata, Lam. a i. 203, ¢. 48, 
Re mucronata, Stokes, Mat. Med. 150. £. spestinata, 
Mocnth, Meth. peck 68. E. prostrata, Sores Syst. i. 
: Bathurst Div. ; Port reipeiias Hutton! La Div.; near 
the vedi of she Kei River, S wiokals an, 969 
ARI RE : Trans vaal ; Bosch Vea at Klippan, erage 5357 ! 
Bast. ERR wade: popererieind ie on the shore, between ben aba River and 
Umtentu River, Drége, 4310! Natal; near Durb an, William 38 pore 85 ! 
Durban Flats, Buchanan, 36! Berea, Wood, 5929! De elagoa Bay, Fi 
Widely spread throughout the tropical aud subtropical regions. 
LXIII. LOPHACME, Stapf. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, noe somewhat soapee on the 
long slender simple subdigitate branches of a paniele ; se illa 
slender, glabrous, disarti culating above the eae and ae 1 the 
2 lowest valves, tough above. Florets about 6, the ee 2 é, 
shorter than the contiguous glumes, the following gradually reduced, 
barren, embracing each other and forming a tuft 0 
unequal, narrow, membranous, 1-nerved, "keeled persistent. Fertile 
valves linear- lanceolate in profile, 2- toothed, membranous, 3-nerved, 
with the side-nerves evanescent above, finely a awned from between 
the Penge igre ely hairy ; barren valves entire, glabrous, 
passing e awns, without a callus. Pales very narrow, 
2-keeled, ‘lightly shonien “han the valves. Lodicules 2 2, very minute, 
cuneate, hyaline. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles distinet, 
Short ; stigmas loosely laine laterally exsert Grain unknown. 
Perennial (?) ; pace flat ; ligule a — rim ; odie subdigitate, of very 
Slender somewhat flex us spike- -like raceme 
Species 1, in eset aal 
in, by 14 lin,, flat, subglaucous, smooth, uppermost 
i short or ela ; panicle 33-5 in. long; axis filiform, less than 
l long, scaberulous, purplish; branches 3-4} in. long, finely 
a Ae etii scaberalous, purplish, bearing subsessile spike- 
lets from the base or little distance above it; spikelets narrow, 
reddish, 21-3 lin, long (exclusive of the awns), oat distant, upper 
