Stabugais.] GRAMINEH (Stapf). 697 
Perennial, Reito, blades very narrow, usually subsetaceous, ni ly ligule a 
ciliate rim ; icle cylindric, dense, usually dark purple, greyish-villous 
Species Li in jeiee tropical South Africa and in tropical Transvaal. 
. §. alopecuroides (Stapf); densely cwspitose ; culms ereet, 
3-1; ft. long, glabrous, simple, or branched at the base ; leaves all 
sometimes flat and then up to 1 lin. broad, rather rigid; panicle 
7-3 in. by 3-81 lin., sometimes interrupted at the base; branches 
soli itary, adpressed to the rhachis; lowest 1 to almost 1 in. long, 
divided from the base or nearly o se ikea pedicels unequal, mostly 
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reddish-brown. ‘featis hloa alopecuroides, Hack. 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 393. Triphlebia alopecuroides, Stapf in ppc 
Icon. Pl. t. 2612. Keleria Gerrardi, Munro ex Benth. in Benth. 
§ Hook. Gen, me ili, 1184 (name only). 
Katanart Reaion: Orange Free State; without firercomg + aa er, 723! 
3352 | Sceuisal ‘Spitzko op Goldmine, Wilins, 1697! Lymklip t, Nelson, 
52*! Steelport River, Nelson, 12* ! Houtbosch Berg, Nelson, 528 
Eastern Reeion: Pondoland; Fakus Territory, Suielaed) piggies 
ast ; grassy rocky places on the summit of Malowe Mountain, 6000 {t., Tys 
2773! MacOwan & Bolu erb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1217! —_ ie Mont 
Tage see ep Beers Pas: 
5993! Noods Berg, Wood, 884! Kar Kloo f, Rehmann, 7361! Um ek jai to gr 
ry 
tng jk 166! 167! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 32! Gerrard, 
LXXIX, bis. LASIOCHLOA, Kunth. 
Spikelets 2-4-flowered, laterally more or less compress sed, sub- 
sessile in a ere panicle; rhachilla tardily disarticulating above 
the glumes and between the valves; florets hermaphrodite or the 
ppe 
subequal, firmly membranous except at the hyaline margins, acute 
or acuminate or sometimes suulate-caudate, usually asymmetric, 
S-nerved. Valves navicular, obtuse or acute, mucronulate, firmly 
tembranous except at the thin margins “ tips, with a ookauie 
line of acute hairs on each si e, 7-9 nerved, side-nerves conniving 
above, evanescent below ; satel ’ obscure, glabrous Pales shorter 
than the valves, 2-keeled. Lodicules ; truncate- cuneate, cane 
ciliolate from articulated hairs. Stamens ‘ vary glabrous 
styles short, distinet; stigmas moped ak plumose. Grai 
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mpressed ; sin beys small] ; hil um basal, m 
Pere gees hid pap iet ; MES oe intravaginal ; ass or rigid and con- 
volute ; hairy rim; pa a sme, aici, often lobed; spikelets 
mostly’ nici fives tubercle-based hai 
