Urochlena. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 701 
g, t upper gradually redueed. Glumes jue ovate- 
oblong, rigidly aristate- acuminate, rounded the mem- 
ranous, d5-nerved. Valves similar, 7- nerved, hace peri 
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distinct, very short; stigmas very slender, delicately plumose, 
laterally exserted. Grain enclosed by fel oe altered valve and 
pale, free, oblong, dorsally compressed, convex on the back, obscurely 
concave in the front ; embryo elliptic, pene Sra about + of the grain ; 
hilum elliptic, minute, basal. 
rgb dwarf, glabrous, much branched from the base; panicle Ss compact, 
ovoid, small, embraced Ae the base by the uppermost sheath and deciduous with it, 
decirinul, rarely beep . itional somewhat remote as cluster of spi elets 
elow it; bran short, 4—1-spiculat eae spikelets sessile or subsessile, 
oblong to shiowate, ‘hispid: those at - base of the lower iranctinn 1-flowered or 
barren, consisting of 2-4 empty glume 
Species 1, endemic. 
Nearest allied to Lasiochloa, 
1. U. pusilla (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 438); culms 3-4 in. long, very 
slender, smooth, about 8-noded, disarticulating below the uppermost 
node ; middle internodes exserted, the upper ermost one short, quite en- 
closed, the one preceding it longest ; sheaths loose, scantily bearded 
at the mouth, smooth, striate; ligule a line of long and short hairs ; 
blades linear, narrow, acute, 2-1 in g; panicles 2— ng ; 
spikelets up to 2 lin. long; glumes 11-13 ong, margins finely 
the middle nerve and both (or the exterior) margins, pat of hairs 
clavate, awns 2 lin. long or shorter ; anthers lin ; grain 
a-y lin. long. Steud. Syn, Pl. Glum. i. 299; Deuthes Pi sake 
Icon. Pl. xiv. 46, t. 1363, fig. B; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
¥. BTS, 
WesteRN ReGion: Vanrbynsdorp Div.; sand-hills near Ebenezer, Droge / 
LXXXI. BRIZOPYRUM, Nees (in part, not of other authors). 
Spikelets 4—9-flowered, more or sr smn compressed, subsessile 
in contracted panicles or 2-ran pikes ; rhachilla tardily disar- 
ticulating above the glumes mers eae "the valves. Florets . 
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ciliate along 2-3 short lines from clavate or acute hairs, rarely 
glabrous, 7- ‘nerved, lateral nerves conniving above, rs aati below 
