Lasiochloa. | GRAMINER (Stapf). 699 
ing from minute or obscure tubereles ; panicle ovoid to oblong- 
er lobed or interrupted, 1-4 in. by 6-12 lin.; rhachis and 
nches smooth below, the latter branched from the base or the 
or undivided for 2 2 lin. and to 1 in. long; pedicels very’short ; 
spikelets obovate, greenish or purplish, 2-3- Accord: florets slightly 
exceeded by the glumes, these ovate- lisiepolate in profile, cuspidate- 
acuminate, 13-2 lin. long, hispid, tips tightly complicate, rigid, 
ager purplish or brown; “valves lanceolate- -oblong in profile, acute 
obtuse, often mucronulate, over 1 lin. long, cilia short, rigid; 
he & lin. long ; grain not Lom lin. by less than 1 lin. Kunth, 
Enum. i. 387 : Suppl. 321; ‘and § Schinz, eee Fl. Afr. v. 
903. L. hispida, var. Fe ie Nees, Fl. Afr. 433 (excl. 
subvar. condi saponin oe siti ee dongijolea, Schrad. in. ‘seu Mant. ii, 
351; Nees in Linne ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i 
R. 8, hispida i culms Be . high, rarely taller, often eS geni- 
; leave *s glabrous or hirsute ; blades short, 1—4 in. gad longer, fine or 
ir i 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 434 ; _ nd § Schinz, Con: 1. Afr. v. 903. ispida, 
Kunth, Enum. i. 38 3; Nee TL Afr. Avistes 132, epee hispida, Thunb. 
rody. i. 22; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 115; Steud. in Flora, 1829, 490. . hirta, 
Schrad. in Schult. Mant. ii. 350; Nees in eth vii. 822; Steud. Syn. Pl 
Glum. i, 298, estuca melangea, Spi i. 352. Lappago setiformis, 
Spreng., i setacea, Spreng. S Piloun At pme eng. ex Steud. Nomex icl. 
ed. ii, ii. 11, 12, 
Var. y, pallens (Stapf); culms }-1} ft. long, overtopped by the leaves; 
blades as in the e type or rather, ‘fin ner ; eg ae lo bed or subinterrupted, pallid, 
1-2 in. lon ng; tips of the glumes long, finely acuminate, hyaline, pa allid or purplish ; 
tips of the ye als —— r, acute, hyaline. LL, hispida, var. longifolia, Nees, 
PL. Afr. Austr. 433 (partly). 
oo AFRICA: withont recise locality, Harvey, 258! 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div. ; Cape Flats, qohesinne i MacOwan § 
Boing: Hers. Norm. “Waist: Afr., 956! Herschel Lane, Wolley Ded, 1820! jocks to 
the west of Lions ig Wo ley Dod, $678! plai in above Simone _— Milne, 254! 
Di iltioray, 403! Paarl ni 5 Paarl — ins, Drég r. 8: Malmesbury 
Div.; Sw rtland, Thunte Cape by a soit iit Simons Bay, 
Milne, 250 | by the on aiade near To ra i *Wolley Do d, 1970! Lion Mountain, 
Burchett, 118! Poppe! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Holla nd, Ecklon, 956! 
age Alexander ! be tomy By neat 
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iP bape i 
a, 31! pe: 3 
Smansdorp Diy mime River as Bolus, oat oy thurst Div. 
— 1 hecpee teteeed Riet Fontein and the shore 
Sing REGION; BAA he Sree Namal 5 etwas wie Fontein, 
Koper Berg an ef Var. gi Ta _ Namaqualand ; 
Woncisk Bergen, ckrwek Pedives Klock shy _ Fontein, Drége ! 
The varieties, admitted here, represe ably only two rather marked 
States dui as it seems, to particular arene a the habitat. 
3. L. obtusifolia (Nees, FI. Afr. Austr, 430); perennial, tufted ; 
senor long runners and numerous innovation shoots ; culms 4-8 in 
