650 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Crossotropis. | 
pilose ; glumes lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, scaberulous, 33—5 lin. 
g; valves oblong, shortly bilobed, mucronate, up to 2 lin. long, 
side-nerves rigidly ciliate; pales truncate, finely pubescent on the 
; ee narrowly- 
oblong, flat, over 1 lin. Stapf in Hook. nl Pl, t. 2609. Lep- 
tochloa grandiglumis, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 252 a Syn. Li. 
Glum. i. 210. Diplachne grandiglumis, Hack. ‘in Engl. Jahrb. 
xi. 404 ; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 878. 
CentTraL REeIon: Albert Div. (New Hant ee 3 in stony places, 4500-5000 ft 
Drege. Aliwal North Div.; between the Witte Bergen and Krai River, 
/ 
LAHARI REGIoNn Stig beste West, Hay Div.; between Klip Fontein and 
Kneghts Seep scy Burchell, 2167! Orange Free State; Caledon River, Burke, 
228! by the C aledon River, at Komissie Drift, Zeyher, 1844! near Winberg, 
ee 246! Bechuanaland; near Groot Kuil, Marloth, 989! Transvaal; 
— near Dice MacLea, 125! Buys Kop, near the Nylstrom, Nelson, 
“Basra Reeion: Natal; sandy valley, near Tugela, 1000 ft., Buchanan, 
279! 
LXVI. TRIRAPHIS, R. Br. (partly). 
Spikelets 5-15-flowered, laterally compressed, pedicelled, panicled; 
thachilla disarticulating above the glumes and bet val 
Florets §, the uppermost gradually reduced, Glumes choad 
lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate or truncate, or minutely 
2-toothed and aristulate, l-nerved, keeled, thin. Valves oblong, 
somewhat shorter than the valves. Lodicules 2, cuneate, delicate, 
minute. Stamens 3 ry glabrous; styles distinet, slender; 
stigmas laterally exserted, very slender, plumose. ais tightly 
embraced by the SearOehy changed valve and . line anger or 
Annual or perennial; blades narrow, ae ligule a ciliate membranou ; 
panicle contracted, spike-like, or open, much branched; spikelets pi 
pedicelled. 
Species 8 in Africa, 1 (T. mollis, R. Br.) in Australia. 
Perennial : : 
oo many-noded, gt ors branched . (1) ramosissima. 
Culm about 3-noded, simple ac ... (2) Rehmanni. 
Annual 
Valves about 14 lin. long; anthers $-1 lin. 
ong + 
Culms 5-7-noded, glabrous; middle awn 
i twice as long as the valve or almost ss 
(3) Elliotii. 
Culins 1-2-noded, glabrons or Fay ; ’ middle 
awn about as long as the v; 
