Leptocarydion. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 649 
Se. Nat. sér. 3, xix. (1853), 372. Leptochloa plumosa, Anderss. in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot.557. Triodia Vulpiastrum, K. Schum. in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. O. 113. Triodia plumosa, Benth. in Jou 
Linn. Soe. xix. 110, and in Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii. 1176 
(partly) ; Durand é Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 877 (partly). 
<Eving Re : es banks of the Tugela River and its tributaries, 
Se erally 187! 
Also in carat Hast Africa as far north as Usambara, 
Closely allied to Z. alopecurotdes (Diplachne ape ac Hochst, ex Steud. ) 
from Abyssinia; but this is a smaller plant with very slender culms and smaller 
leaves, having only 2-3 primary nerves on each side, 
LXV. CROSSOTROPIS, Stapf. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, subsessile, more or less distinctly 
2-ranked on the rigid simple branches of a panicle; rhachilla 
slender, disartieulating above the glumes and between the valves. 
Florets 3-9, 3 or the uppermost more or less redueed, equalling the 
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the glumes. Glumes subequal or equal, narrow, membranous, 
strongly l-nerved, keeled, persisten Valves somewhat distant, 
linear-oblong in profile, shortly 2-lobed, mueronate or shortly awned 
from the sinus, ees ORTEDCSS 3-nerved, side-nerves submarginal, 
subpercurrent, rigidly ciliate, margins inflexed; callus small, hairy. 
ales narrow, 2-keeled, slightly shorter than the valves. Lodicules 2, 
cuneate, small, Stamens vary glabrous; styles distinct, very 
slender ; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain oblong, strongly 
Compressed fro , concave or flat, enclosed by the slightly 
altered valve and pale ; embryo about } the length of the grain; 
hilum basal, punetiform 
Annual or ae 6h tiated gen flat; ligules gegen panicle contracted 
and narrow, open with the branches spreadi ng a t right angles; spikelets 
rather close. a: veer dntent, the cope terminal. 
Species 3, in Africa and Arabia. 
1. C. grandiglumis (Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. i. 226) ; 
perennial ; culms tufted, erect or geniculate, 1-1} ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, terete or slightly ce ny 2—3-noded, upper “internodes 
finally exse ted ; leaves crowded near the base ; sheaths glabrous or 
very rarely with seep fine long sprea i: hairs, rather firm, 
distant lengt th, 
adpressed, shortly peeled, 31-5 lin. long; rhaehilla minutely 
