648 GRAMINE# (Stapf), [ Lophacme. 
rather close ; glumes linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, lower some- 
what shorter; fertile valves white above, purple below, finely 
pubescent, 1-2 lin. long, teeth slender; awn seabrid below, very 
fine, 3-4 lin. long, erect ; cluster of barren valves distinetly over- 
topped by the fertile (except for the — pales 12 lin. long; 
anthers unknown ; stigmas orange-colour 
KALAHARI ina : Transvaal; Rhenoster aa Nelson, 32*! 
LXIV. LEPTOCARYDION, Hochst. ex Benth. 
Spikelets 4—9-flowered, pari’ compressed, sessile or subsessile, 
secund, biseriate, close, on a very slender rhachis ; rhachilla disarticu- 
lating above the alumes aa between the valves. Florets 3, the 
uppermost reduced. Glumes subequal, lanceolate, acuminate, l-ner ved, 
keeled. Valves oblong, truncate, minutely 4-toothed (teeth hyaline), 
thin, 3-nerved, margins inflexed, nerves ciliate, the middle nerve ex- 
current into a fine bristle, the side-nerves pol excurrent ; callus 
slender, aeute, bearded. Pales linear-oblong, slightly shorter than the 
le d 
valves, 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, cuneate, delicate. Stamens 3; anthers 
sstree “ea ary glabrous; styles distinct, slender ; stigmas "laterally 
exserted, very slender, plumose. Grain linear, obtusely triquetrous, 
tightly embraced by the scarcely changed valve and pale, free ; 
embryo less than + the length of the grain; hilum basal, puncti- 
form. 
Annual, culms tufted, many-noded; blades linear to oblong-lanceolate ; ligule 
scien ne Bea short or obscure panicle spike-like, dense ; branches erect, simple, 
dpressed bran 
Species 3, in pron 
Allied to Triraphis, but differing in the non-excurrent side-nerves and the 
sessile unilateral aaa 
rounded co constricted base, eade, 1-3 in. by 3-6 lin., flat or 
involute, smooth or finely scaberulous below, _ pager — 
pn ng, branched from the villous base; branchlets 
5—l-spiculate, up to 3 lin. long; spikelets crowded, adpresse 
owered, up to 3 lin. long; rhachilla very slender ; glumes 
about 12 lin. long, the upper linear-oblong, about 1% lin. long; 
valves 14 lin. long, pubescent below the middle, long 
ciliate along the side-nerves ; anthers + lin. long, ovate ; “grain linear, 
obtusely triquetrous, less than 3 ln. by less than } lin. Rabdochl¢ 
Vulpiastrum, De Not. Cat. Sem. Hort. Genuens. 1852, and in Ann. 
