688 GRAMINEE (Stapf). { Melica. 
long, the upper acuminate, 7-nerved, 53-7 lin. long ; valves exeeeded 
fea ee 
y the upper glume, the fertile oblong, obtuse, 5 lin. long, scabrid 
and strongly 7-nerved, hairy all over except at the hyaline ie ae hairs 
very long; body of barren valves clavate, hairy; anthers 3 
male Thunb. Fil. Cap. ed. Schult, 111; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i, S18, 
on Web, M. dendroides, Lehm. Pugill. iii. 39; Nees in Linnea, vii. 
337 ; Fi. Afr. Austr. 419; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 378; Steud. ‘Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 289; Durand é Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 898. 
SoutH uote without Lrg rrongae gs erg! 
Coast REG : Fort Bea t Div t Beaufort, Ecklon. pang 
ee ; Bon “aot ve “Flats and near =the iain River, Ecklon. Finchams Nek, 
r Queenstown, 3800 ft., Galpin, 2373! at the foot of the Stormberges, 
teat Klass — River ur Storimbeng Saleh 4000-5000 ft., Dré 
CENT RxEGion : Somerset Div. ; near Somerset, Bowker, 180 ! Gr: et Reinet 
Div. rG maaff I Reinet, 3300 fe. grep 681! “Co le sberg Div.; near Colesberg, 
haw; 12! ! per me Albert Diy. (2); 3; * Cis- -Garipina,” baie of the Cian River, 
5000-6000 ft., Z, 
KALAuaRi a. Orange Free State, Hutton! 
This is according to Hutton the  dronk grass’ the Boers, so-called on 
account of the effect it has on cattle and horse es, making them stagger as if 
intoxicated. Oxen are even said to die hess eating 
Melica festucoides (Lichtenst. in Roem. & Schult. Ss ii. 580) probably does 
not belong to this genus. Kunth suggests Ehrharta 
LXXIV. LAMARCKIA, Moench. 
Spikelets oe fascicled, in dense unilateral panicles; 
ban deciduous, consisting usually of 5 spikelets, 2 of them 
awned, 3 awnless, — many-valved, barren ; one of the awned 
spikelets imperfect and paired with the lowest awnless spikelet, the 
other fertile between the other 2 awnless spikelets. Fertile spikelet : 
rhachilla slender, tough; florets 2, lower g, upper barren ; glumes 
subequal, narrow, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, l-nerved, keele 
lower valve ovate-oblong (linear-oblong in profile), rounded on the 
back, thin, finely 5-nerved, awned from below the —_ awn fine, 
straight, callus obseure; upper valve empty, minute, delicate, 
l-nerved, awned at or below the middle; pale narrow, 2-keeled ; 
reactants ot eager nerveless ; stamens 3 ; ae rs minute 5 
truncate, eaitae 3-nerved, the upper ats cate. Grain tightly 
embraced by the valve and pale, eikeaua to the inten, linear-oblong, 
grooved ; embryo oblong, short; hilum linear, } the le ngth of the 
grain. 
Annual, small, glabrous; culms numerous; leaves flat; panicle very elega” t 
