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Brizopyrum.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 703 
glabrous, smooth, 2~3-noded, sheathed all along or 1-2 petit 
internodes slightly exserted; leaves very finely hirsute all over ; 
uppermost much exceeding the panicle; panicle spike-like, oblong, 
very dense, sometimes lobed, 4-9 lin. by 2-3 lin,; rhachis and 
branches terete, smooth, the latter very short ; pedicels up to 2 lin, 
long ; spikelets very crowded, very broad, ovate, turgid, 11-12 lin. 
long, 3~6-flowered ; glumes broad, ovate, acute to subacute, up to 
1 lin. long, faintly 5- -nerved, white margins very broad; lower glume 
with stiff “tubercle- based bristles on the Warhiseaods back, upper almost 
scantily and minutely ciliolate ; anthers 4 lin. long. ea 
aie Thunb. Prodr. 22; Fl. Cap. ed. i. 429 ; ed. Schult. 115 (not 
Nees in Linnea, vii. 322). 
Sourn AFRica : without precise locality, Thunberg! 
y distinct yas quite different from Lasiochloa ciliaris (p. Athy — 
oh (Ren, Bpdiai . 556) took to be paring, 2 Dactylis ciliaris on 
authority of a specimen so named in the Berlin Herbarium. He repe: sated ve 
error later (Braue i, 387) and was followed ay Nees (Fl. Afr, Austr. 432). 
2. B. obliterum setae ae tufted with numerous closely 
sheathed innovation shoots 2-6 in. long; culms geniculately ascend- 
ng or prostrate, cette glabrous, smooth, 2-3- gre internodes 
serted except the uppermost; sheaths rather tigh seg (7a 
the upper 1 cr 2 usually exceeding "the base “the panicle ; ligule a 
ciliclate rim ; blades ins narrow, more or oe setaceous wit a sub- 
dark green, often spreading 3 panicle eke -like, linear- oblong, 4-1 in. 
by 2-3 lin. ; rhachis and branches terete, scaberulous, the latter very 
short ; pedicels up to + lin. long, rarely more; spikelets crowded, 
elliptic, up to 2 lin. long, greenish, 3~6-flowered ; glumes ovate, 
acute or subac a prominent 3- ay ache not on } 
emarginate, 1 lin. long ; Hag scabrid ; lodienica scantily papillose ; 
anthers 2 lin, long; grain 3 by 4 lin, Demazeria oblitera, Hems!. 
in Chall. Exped. Bot. i. ii. 90, t. 51, fig. 1-8; Stan d §& Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 900. 
} Var. 8, erectum (S:apf); culms erect or suberect, 6-7 in. long; blades 24-4} in. 
ong. 
