C98 GRAMINE® (Stapf). { Lasiochloa. 
ieee 3 or 4, endemic. 
“aes raga s long caudate-acumina (1) ciliaris.’ 
apes 1; glumes acutely or sales acuminate or 
rea 
Gl lumes sprog coarsely hispid .. (2) longifolia. 
Glumes acute, iene and sain hispid o or almost 
glabrous ... (3) obtusifolia. 
1. L. ciliaris (Kanth, Rév. Gram, ii. 555, t in: ; annual, tufted, 
6-8 in. high; culms geniculately ascending, slender, 3—4-noded, 
glabrous, middle internodes exserted, the uppermost 1-2 usually 
enclosed ; sheaths tight or the uppermost subtumid, glabrous and 
smooth or hispid from fine tubercle-based hairs, bearded at the 
mouth, striate ; a ia a long ciliate rim ; blades linear, tapering to 
an acute oint, 1-24 in. by ie 13 lin., rather flaccid, flat or convolute, 
hairy to ponent pabeleaonae: panicle ovate-oblong to oblong- 
linear, sometimes lobe d, 3-11 in. by 4-5 lin., usually embraced at 
the base by the 2 uppermost abo: branches branched from the 
base, up to 1 in. long, rarely longer ; pedicels exeeely short, uP to 
1 lin. long; spikelets broadly obovate, greenish, 2—4-flowered ; 
florets much exceeded by the glumes, these ovate- lanceolate, Kabel 
nate-acuminate, 2 lin. long, mucros mostly curved, $1} lin. long; 
valves oblong-lanceolate in profile, acute, obtuse or subemargin: ate, 
mucronate, Le we long, cilia short, rigid ; anthers 3_] lin. long ; grain 
wer. 2 lin. by Llin. Kunth, Enum. i . 387; Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 
432 ; De Sf Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 902 (all in part). 
L. adscendens, Kunth, le. 388 ; Nees, lc. 435. LZ. hispida, rar. 
longifolia, Nees, l.c. 433 (in part). ZL utriculosa, Drege in Linnea, 
xx. 255, non Nees. Alopecurus echinatus, Thunb. Prodr. 19 ; Fil. 
Cap. ed. 3 398 ; ed. Schult, 105. Dactylis er Schrad. in 
Schult. Syst. Mant. ii. 351; Nees in Linnea, vii. 323; Steud. Syn. 
Pi bhoee BD. ciliaris, Nees in Snibing vil. 322, not Thunb. 
fystringium acuminatum, Trin. ex Steud. Ni sani ed. ii. ii. 11. 
Soutn AFrica : without precise locality, ete 
v ReGion: iat ani Div.; Ebe tnd below ae Gs cal 
Malmesbury Div.; between Greene Kloot be Sal nha Bay, 5 ege + 
Cape Div.; Lion ‘isontane his 3 oe I ! near Lion Buttery, Wolley 
Dod, 3109! Wynberg Park, Wolley 1 Dod, "Is15! Swellendam Div.; mountain 
ridges along the lower part of Zonder Kin ide Rive er, Zeyher, 4588! 
Nees indicates L. ciliaris also from Stellenbosch and Beare Div., and severi 
more se the specimens quoted under L. hispida and L. adscendens also very — 
ere, 
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L. longifolia (Kunth, Rév. ba ii. 557. t. 193); pie 
cwespitose, with numerous sh ort- or long-leaved innovation shoots 
culms geniculate or suberect, 1-11 "tt. long, glabrous, smooth, often 
purple, almost wiry, 3-4-noded, internodes often long exserted ; 
sheaths tight, glabrous, rarely scantily hairy, conspicuously bearded 
at the mouth, often all round, the lowermost pallid, subpersistent ; 
ligules a hairy rim blades linear, narrow, tapering to an acute 
point, 6-12 in. by 3-1 lin. (when expanded), setaceously pape 
flexuous, glabrous or sometimes more or less hairy, hairs fine é 
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