700 GRAMINEA (Stapf). [ Lasiochloa. 
long, erect, glabrous, smooth, 2-noded, internodes exserted ; leaves 
glabrous; sheaths tight, smooth, striate, sometimes scantily bearded 
t mouths, the basal short, whitish; ligule a ciliolate rim; 
blades very narrow, linear, with an obtuse callous point, 1-4 
long, rigid, conv , those of the culms spreading or curved, 
smooth, dark green; panicle spike-like, scarcely lobed, dense, ovate- 
oblong to oblong, 4-1 in. by 4-7 li 
subacute or submucronate, not quite 2 lin. long, cilia short and 
rigid; anthers 1 lin. long; grain not quite 4 lin. long. Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 903. L. ovata, Nees, l.c. 481; Durand ¢ 
Schinz, le.  Daetylis obtusifolia, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i298. D. 
ovata, Steud. l.c. 
Soutn AFrica: without precise locality, Herb. Harvey, 314! 
st REeGion: Uitenhage Div.; in dry places and on limestone, near the 
Zwartkops River, Drége. 
Imperfeetly known species. 
spikelets ovate, 11--12 lin. long, greenish, 3-flowered ; glumes ees 
rather rigid, subulate-acuminate with the acumen reeurved, scabr) 
setaceously mucronate, pubescent below with a submarginal line 
fascicled clavate-tipped cilia, faintly 5-nerved in the upper part; 
pales 3-4-toothed ; lodicules linear, glabrous, emarginate. Drege ™ 
Drége § Meyer, Zwei Pflanzengeogr. Docum. 197 ; Durand § Schan, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 904. L. ustuloides, Drege in Drege & Meyer, — 
paige es Se Doeum. 92. Dactylis utriculosa, Steud. Syn. Pl. 
m. 1. 299. 
pe WeEstERN Recton: Little Namaqualand; on rocks in gorges near Noagas, 
rege. 
glumes 
This description points rather to Brizopyrum, with the exception of oie 
sO conspicuously exceeding the florets, 
LXXX. UROCHLZANA, Nees. q 
Spikelets few- to 7-flowered, in very short spike-like or capitulifor® | 
panicles, laterally slightly compressed; rhachilla tough ; ie q 
