Schismus.] GraMines (Stapf). 693 
nerved, ciliate. Stamens 3. Ovary subglobose, ees styles 
distinct, slender, about as long as the narrowly and sely plumose 
laterally exserted stigmas, Grain loosely embraced ie the unaltered 
vaive and pale, oblong to obovate, trigonous to plano-convex ; Sins: 
small, elliptic, basal ; . “embryo less than } the length of the gra 
ual, very rarely oh eng rather small; blades very narrow, often 
mma ears reduced to a line of hairs; pan nicle contracted, or at least 
narrow ; spikelets conspicuously well, only the upper florets exserted from the 
glun 
ie ae 4, in the Mediterranean Region from the Canaries to India, and 
in South Afric 
Anthers 3-2 lin. long, elliptic; valves ee or with 
Spikelets narrow ; glumes thin, acute ss ee 
nual, very rarely subperennia (1) fasciculatus. 
peor slightly turgid ; glumes somewhat firm, 
tuse ; ; perennial . (2) kelerioides. 
gig in. long, linear ; glumes § somewhat frm 
aps minutely awned. ... (8) aristulatus. 
blades very narr ; inear, acute, 1-3 in. long, up to 2 lin. broad, 
flat or setaceously eonvolute, filiform, flaccid or somewhat rigid and 
curved, scaberulous or smooth ; panicle contracted, oblong, 5- “14 lin. 
by 2-7 lin., dense, someti mueh reduced ; spikelets narrow, 
22-381 lin. long, greenish, 6—8-flowered ; glu with rather broad 
and marked w argins, the | oblong-lanceolate, acute, 
5-T-nerved, 11-2 lin. long, the upper lanceolate, ac - 
acuminate, 3-5-nerved, slightly longer; valves obliquely obovate- 
oblong in profile, 7-1} lin. long, shortly an and subobtusely 2-lobed, 
teading their valves ; anthe 11 Jin. long; grain  globoss-dbeesal 
to bovoid, 8 lin. lon Trin. aa Agrost. S. marginatus, 
Beauv Agrost. in the index 177, and in the Expl. Pl. ¢ v. 
1, t4 3 ees in Linnea, vii Sgt 1. Ajr. Austr. 421; 
Kunth, Eni is 385 ; Suppl. 318, t. 28, fig. 2; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum., i. 295. 8S. brevifolius, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 422 ; Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 295. 8. calycinus, Duval-Jouve in Billot, Adnot. 
285-290; Coss. in Coss. ¢ Dur. Expl. Scient. Alger. Phan, 138 ; 
Acad. iii. 400. Keeleria calycina, DC. Fl. Frang. vi. 271. Electra 
ealycina, Panz, in Muench. Denksehr. iv. (1813) 299, cum ic. 
