682 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [Ehrharta. 
longer and much more ee spikelets 6-74 lin. long; glumes 54~7 lin. 
ae with 7-9 long ner 
UTH ig pes precise locality, Thom, 80! Var. 6, Ecklon 
Pb 409! Thor 
Co rit — ape Div.; Camps Bay, Ecklon ! scenes 332! Simons 
Bay, Alexander! sandy ae at Upper Novth Battery and common in deep 
sand all ent oo mons Town, Wo lley Dod, 2827! very viene in sand on the 
beach beyond the Mill, Wolley Dod, 3229! Var. 8: Port Hlizabeth Div. ; 
common snag » Port Elizabe th, H.8.C.A. , 94! 
CrentRaL REGION: « Somerset, ie ere 7 
E, villosa and E, gigantea are very closely — the ci ae mainly 
e e glu and 0) 
in the mode of growth and the relative length of t lum alves. 
h is vege Pe he pe ir of soil will have to be investigated 
on the also refers to E. villosa specimens na eae are Ecklon at 
Nee 
Talbagh. Watorfal : Caine Agulhas, and near the Zwartkops Riv: 
LXXIJ. PHALARIS, Linn. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, in contracted more or less spike-like 
panicles ; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes, not or obscurely 
produced beyond the termi al floret. Florets 3, the lower 2 
minute, rudimentary, the uppermost ¢, enclosed by the glumes. 
Glumes subequal, boat-shaped, keeled, keel often winged. Hmpty 
valves very small, subulate to lanceolate, membranous, with a callous 
base, or 1 or both reduced to a maidate callous scale; fertile valve 
thin, ultimately rigid, 5-nerved, awnless, ovate, acute. Pa saat 
as long as the valve, 2-nerved (sometimes obscurely). Lodicules 2, 
serted from the top of the spikelet. Grain much compressed, ovate, 
free, enclosed by the valve and pale; hilum oblong, short ; embryo 
cc ing + the length of the grain. 
uals or perennials; leaves flat; panicle oe stiff, spike-like, sub- 
cute or ie upted and lobed ; pedicels very shor 
— es 10, mainly natives of the Mediterranean region, but widely 
weeds; 1 species in the boreal region and in South Africa, and another 
California to Chile, 
Annual; keels of oo conspicuously winged 
Per ennial ; keels of glumes not or very obscurely winged .. 
ug as 
from 
ae eee arundinacea. 
1. » minor oe Obs. ill, ge annual; culms tufted, sen - 
glumes subequal, Sakina, acute, relies sehilis nerves “gre 
errulate, suddenly contracted below the apex ; lower oe 
rae a minute callous scale; upper somewhat subulate, 4 y 
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