Brizopyrum.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 705 
, way up the valve; pales broad, 1 lin, ong keels obscurely 
ving poahices lous; lodicules papillose and w a few cilia; 
ant —4 lin. long; grain over 2 lin. by } lin, ape Syn. Pl. 
7 a i "281. Des smazeria acutiflora, Durand Y Schinz, Consp. Fi. 
Afr. v. 900. 
Var. 8, eapillare (Nees, as ; culms 3-12 in. long ; blades capillary, with 
scattered spreading long hairs 
rag 4st Reeion: Vanek) mad. a sand-hills near Ebenezer, below 500 ft., 
‘ége ! Soe A Div.; Piqu ¢ Ran nge, near Groen Vallei, below 1090 ft., 
Drive ‘eye! Var Di Ve be ee Point and on the me beyond Sea Point, 
/ . B: Cape 
<ape Watt 2y Dod, 3569 ! 
B. daonian (Trin. in tee Acad. St. Pétersb. sér. 6, iv. (1838), 
and in Gram. Gen. Sup 54); rata, usually quite glabrous ; 
innovation shoots from re axils of s firm abal sealea, erect or 
firm, smooth, 3—4-noded, internodes at length exserted ; leaves glab- 
tous, rarely sparingly to copicusly hirsute from tubercle-based hairs ; ; 
sheaths tight, smooth, sometimes bearded at the mouth; ligule a 
very dense line of fine ae: blades very narrow, linear, ‘acate, 
convolute, 3-10 in. by 1 lin. when expanded, firm, flexuous, 
smooth or obscurely scaberulous and strongly nerved above ; panicle 
spike-like, very shortly branched below, reduced to a bifarious 
a 
seabrid ; spikelets imbricate, in on or the ranks 
conniving in front, 3-43 lin. long, ovate, 5—9-flowered, pallid or 
variegated with purple ; glumes ovate to ovate-lanceolate in profile, 
acuminate, 2-3 lin. long, firmly chartaceous, 5- to sub-7-nerved, 
glabrous or with a few tubercle-based bristles, the scarious margins 
broad, finely scaberulous; valves obliquely oblong or subovate in 
profile, shortly or obscurely and obtusely acuminate, usually finely 
ome base, with clavate-tipped hairs, rarely quite 
glabrous, subcoriaceous except at the narrow scarious margins, nerves 
Searcely visible except in transmitted light; pales 2-toothed, 2 lin. 
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ong; flaps glabrous or hairy; keels ringed, ciliolate; lodicules 
ciliate ; anthers 1 lin. lon g. Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 372 (exel. var. B) ; 
Steud. ‘Syn. Pl. Glum.i. 281. C ynosurus Vaiolee, ‘Linn. JF. Suppl. 110; 
Thunb. Prodv. 23; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 119; Nees in Linnea, Vii. 
27. C. paniculatus, coe Le. ; Kunth, Baum. i. 389; Durand & 
Schinz, Cunsp. Fl. Afr. v. 906. “Triticum capense, Spreng. Pugill. 
li. 23. Briza act hb ‘Steud. in Flora, 1829, 489. B. Uniole, 
Nees ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 283. Poa Uniole, Schrad. in 
Goett. Gel. Anz. 1821, 2074, ond in See Mant. ii. 312; Kunth, 
are. i. 34h. FP, papillosa, Schrad, lc., and in Schult. Mant. 
; Kunth, lc. Uniola capensis, Trin. in Mém. Acad. St. Pétersh. 
sr, ‘6, i. (1831) 360, and in Gram. Gen 
Var. 8, villosum (Stapf) ;. leaves densely villous all along; blades Ry to more 
Vil, 
