654 GRAMINEM (Stapf). [ Triraphis. 
side-awns somewhat longer than the middle lobe; pale glabrous, 
keels seabrid ; anthers 4 lin. long ; grain linear, terete, * lin, b 
Nee Afr. Austr. 259 (also Boiss. Fl. Or. v. 562; Ascherson § 
aw Lil. FI. Boupte 1714). 
Western Recion: Little Namaqualand; bank of the Orange River near 
bane fe on tte 593 ! 
Kat GIon.: Bechuanaland, Marloth, 1513. 
I am not quite poole whether “ Nubian eet referred by Boissicr to 
Diplachne nana, hes spas: this - cimen of it, which I have 
seen (collected by Th. Ben e Nu bia an coast i "Or" N, Lat.), - br much 
arger panicles, und also he radividual spikelets ise florets are longe 
LXVII. ENN EAPOGON, Desv. 
ee 3-flowered, paniculate ; rhachilla disarticulating above 
glumes, minutely scaberulous or almost smooth. Lowest jloreé 
, the intermediate male or barren, the uppermost rudimentary, 
minute, Glumes 2, flan membranous, acute or obtuse oF 
s 
ciliate or scaberulous; callus minute, short ; pale oblon 
exceeding the valve ; lodicules 2, minute, cuneate, fleshy ; stamens 3 ; 
ovary glabrous ; styles distinct, short ; st se adi — 
more or less compressed ; hilum Ss ie subbasal ; embryo 
large, occupying % or more of the fron 
Perennial, rarely sg he blades oo narrow, often convolute ; ligules 
reduced to a line of hairs ; pani 7 — more or less spike-like, elegantly 
bristly-plumose from rig numerou 
Species about 6 in the wie and warm regions of the Old World and in Austr alia, 
lin Western North Amer 
Awns Peyparning Sines or cilia 
s softly glan ndaar-pubascent nodes 
ght mee ; culms not w 
Culms 2-6 in. lon de: gnu hl lala 
ore or $s compact tufts ; indies 
fine, usually setaceonsly convolute ; 
side-nerves of the glumes ier. 
ve. (1) brachystachyus. 
Culms 1-3 ft. long, fascicled ; " plades 
1-3 lin. broad, flat or convolute ; the 
Bt sericea of the beta glume per- 
t or shortly excurre: ... (2) mollis. — 
Anak. peered culms sets wiry, 1-2 fb; .« (3) scoparids. 
Awns scaberulous along the margin » (4) scaber. 
1. E. brachystachyus (Stapf); sia: often compactly 
cespitose, all parts finely icant AIM seen rarely subglabrous ; 
