684 GRAMINE& (Stapf). [ Phalaris. 
CrntraL REGion: Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, on the banks - Bey 
2500 ft., MacOwan, 1640! Albert Div.; Mooi Plaats, ny wrege f 
se: North Div.; at the foot of the Witte Bergen, 4500-5000 
N REGION: by the Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, Oo Yan ere 
ig, “Wood, 7215 partly ! 
Also in Europe. 
aquatica, Thunb. Prod. 19, is alee ad this plant. It is not mentioned in 
his Flora Capensis, nor is it in his herbarinw 
LXXITI. MELICA, Linn. 
Spikelets in spike- or raceme-like or open panicles, laterally or 
dorsally compressed, or subterete, jointed (sometimes imperfectly) on 
their pedicels or continuous with them; rhachilla tardily disar- 
ticulating above the glumes, readily between the fertile valves. 
Lower 1 or 2 (rarely 3) florets 3, the following 2-3 barren, small, 
embracing each other and forming a clavate or oblong body. Glwmes 
2, membranous, hyaline or scarious, obtuse or acute, 3~5-nerved, or 
the upper 7-nerved. Fertile valves ‘firmly membranous except at the 
Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles distinct, short ; stigmas laterally 
exserted, finely plumose. Grain enclosed by the more or less 
hardened (chartaceous) valve and the pale, free, oblong, semi- 
terete to subterete; hilum a fine line as long as the grain ; embryo 
small. 
Perennial ; eee eat or deeergnat: Prd hyaline ; ariel a spike-like 
or almost reduced any- w-spiculate, often secund ; spikelets 
more or less scarious, st Las vividly pe ee pete on capillary ier the tips 
of whic are e usually : strongly incurved. 
40 species, mainly in the ort temperate zone, a few in the temperate 
sais of the southern hemisphe 
Valves hairy yer MS along by si a3 
Leaves softly hairy all over ; fertile floret 1, m 
cee & than the upper glum . (1) Bolust.— 
Leaves glabrous ; fertile lores 2, equalling or ex- 
ceeding the upper glum 
Culms 2-3 ft. long, simple or do branched 
above the base; leaves very sc 
Spikelets 3-5 lin. ae 3 Sg ee ovate, 
oa oblong, subacuminate, rather 
(2) racemosa. 
Spikelet ets 21-3 lin. ‘long; " glumes very 
road, subacute or subcuspidate ... (3) ovalis. 
Culms 3-6 in. long, profusely branched, in 
dense fascicles from a long prostrate very 
slender base; leaves scaber ulous; spikelets é 
24-3 lin. loug; upper g uminate .,. (4) pumila. 
Valves hairy all over: 
Culms profusely branched, in dense fascicles 
from a long pros trate base, up to 4 ft. sake of 
spikelets up to 4 lin. long... (5) Neesi. 
Culms simple, Aleit or ascending ‘from a bonis 
short base ; spikelets 54-7 lin, long i (0) ee’ 
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