658 GRAMINE® (Stapf). | Schmidtia, 
rigid, flat or convolute ; ligulea line of hairs ; panicle contracted, narrow, oblong 
or spike-like ; spikelets turgid, many -bristled. 
Species 3~4, closely allied, in tropical and South Africa. 
1. S. bulbosa ge he 3 perennial, with numerous villous conical 
ecebiatae buds at the base, leg hence more or less s As Ibous 
nodes set suahoded or subexserted ; leaves villous or pubescent or 
glabrescent ; sheaths striate, the upper tight ; blades linear, long and 
finely attenuated, 25—4 in. by 2-5 lin., usually convolute at “least 
above the middle, firm, rather rigid; panicle linear to oblong, 
2-4 in, by 6-12 lin., somewhat loosely contracted ; branches up to 
1 in. long, 3—7-spiculate ; oe 4-5 lin. aes olumes Bare, 
nerves prominent, the lower 3-4 lin. long, ovate, the upper 4-5 lin 
oblong ; body of valves 1: ~2 lin. long, fice iinet rota about 
+ lin. long ; awns 3-4 in. ong; flaps of pales long silky ; anthers 
1—1+ lin. long; grain Z ae long. S. guingueseta, Fiealho and Hiern, 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 31 (partly) ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 871 (partly). 
Katanari ReGion: Griqualand West; Hiinernest Kloof, Rehmann, 3401! 
St. Cle, bea 0 Orpen, 196! Orange Free State, Prashant; 52! Bechuana- 
land ; i Desert, near “ Giraffe Station,” Burchell, 2361! Transvaal ; 
the Ub oo Mele, 1386! Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5365! near Lyden- 
sar Atherst 
. quingu mane enth., (according to Ficalho and Hiern, as “ illustrated by 
specimens which have been distributed oe ‘ed Polytechnic School of Lisbon 
as part o yo e Neier ges = D. A. R. Fereira,’’) is a grass, a branched above 
the base nches bei g intravaginal ‘eon sera the cu ery slender and 
glabrous, the pi rather “shor t (12-2 in.), stiff, and de ‘the sheaths clothed 
Hackel (Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 22) indi ee 8S. pappophoroides, 
Steud., and S. quinqueseta, Benth., aony arious pl n Great Nam — pet 
but, in the tesierag f the ncteviernty, to which he refers i must leave open 
question h hey belong to S. bulbosa or to one of the other 2 pe t 
iis specific a alo of these can be maintained at all 
LXIX. POTAMOPHILA, R. Br. 
rare laterally slightly compressed, on short or rather long 
pedicels, panicled; rhachilla jointed above the rudimentary basal 
ene: Florets 3; lower 2 reduced to minute ~~ — upper- 
most ¢ or unisexual with the organs of the other reduced. 
Glumes educe very minute rounded or truneate s yor ee 
obscure entire or bilobed hyaline rim. Empty valves ver small, 
hyaline, nerveless, subulate or elliptic and rounded or | ; fertile 
valve membranous, 5-nerved, awnless, nerves raised, sometimes slightly 
winged. Pale 3-ne ; otherwise similar t e alv 
Lodicules 2, finely nerved. Stam Styles distinct; stig 
feathery. Grain obovate, compressed, crowned by the thickened — 
bases of the styles, enclosed by the unaltered glume and ile ree. 
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