704 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Brizopyrum. 
Coast REGIoN: Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Zeyher, 4589! Var. B: 
Mossel Bay Div.; between Great Brak River and Little Brak River, Burchell, 
Alen in St. Hel 
a specics is  icaiietike between rae te and Briz aopyrum. I Rscabiy 
placed it in the latter genus on account of the flore 
Burchell’s specimens oe more the habit of B. dione atum, but the spikelets 
are exactly as in B, obliterun 
B. glomeratum (Stapf in Hook. Ieon. Pl. t. 2603) ; perennial, 
tufted, with numerous ~~ sheathed intravaginal innovation 
shoots, ae to 1 ft. high; culms geniculate, su erect, very slender, 
glabrous, 2 —4-noded, internodes exserted; sheaths tight, quite glab- 
rous, lower short, whitish, rather firm; ligule a minutely ciliolate 
rim ; blades subsetaceous with an obtuse callous point, 2 to more than 
6 in. long, glabrous ; geo spike-like, linear- oblong, slightly lobed 
or subinterrupte ed, 1-11 in. by 3-4 lin.; rhachis and branches terete, 
seaberulous to hispidulous, the latter very short like the pedicels ; 
spikelets very crowded, broad, ovate to elliptic, about 2 lin. long, 
greenish, 3—6-flowered ; nian” ovate, acute to subacuminate, about 
12 lin, long, glabrous, 3-5 -nerved, nerves rather close to the scabrid 
keel, aint, margins very bro ad, white; valves ovate in profile, 
usually abruptly mucronate, slightly over 1- 12 lin. long, rather firm, 
with lines of fine rigid pointed hairs along the margins and keel or 
hairy all over to the middle, nerves fine ; ‘pales broad, obtuse, 1 roa 
long, keels ciliate below, scabrid above ; anthers almost 1 lin. lon 
Poa glomerata, Thunb. fou ar. 22:3 #1. ’ Cap. ed. i. 423; ed. Sebuit 
Souta Laney : without precise locality, Thunberg ! 
Nees, who had not seen Thunberg’s type of Poa glomei — referred it (Fl. Afr. 
Austr. iy erroneously to Tetrachne Dregei—a mistake which passed into other 
Lys be - Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 299 and Durand § Shine, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
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fs acutiflorum (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 371) ; perennial, tufted 
with short-leaved eg ng ie shoots, glabrous ; culms slen er, genicu- 
late, suberect, 1—1 ong, smooth, 4—5-noded, lower internodes 
exserted, the th aatoel enclosed ; sheaths tight, striate, the upper- 
nod exceeding the bases of shy paniele ; ligule a ciliolate rim ; blades 
n expanded, often ietadediitty convolute, rather rigid, exngotlt 
below, scaberulous above ; panicle spike-like, sb ote dense, 2—2 in 
by 2-3 lin., greenish to straw-coloured, with some smaller additional 
clusters from the sides of the uppe’ ermost 1 or 2 internodes; the 
rhachis and the very short branches scabrid ; pedicels to } lin. long; 
spikelets imbricate, oblong, acute, 2-21 lin . long, 5-8-flowered ; 
glumes ovate-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 12 lin. ‘long or slightly 
more, glabrous, 4—5-n erved, nerves close to the keel, “sides thinly 
membranous ; ‘valves lanceolate in sete, mucronate-acuminate, 
nerves rather distinct above the middle, with a short line of 
clavate cilia along the keel and near the margins from the base to 
