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7. B. brachystachyum (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted, with numerous 
short-leaved innovation shoots; culms very slender, geniculately 
ascending or prostrate at the base, 6-8 in. long, branehed from the 
base, alabrou us, smooth, 4-—5-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths 
rather thin, the lower short, somewhat looser, pallid, strongly striate, 
hirsute from tubercle- based hairs, the upper tight, glabrescent or 
glabrous, smooth; ligule a line of hairs; blades linear, obtusely 
pointed, 1—12 in. b ‘ lin., more or less involute, glaucous, strongly 
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finely tomentose from the middle downwards with clavate- tipped 
minute hairs, upper glabrescent to glabrous, ahh hia nee prominent 
above ; pales slightly tomentose on the back, 1 lin. long; keels ob- 
seurely winged; lodicules ciliate; anthers 1 in long ; i i 
3 lin. B. capense, var. brachystachyum, Nees, FI. Afr. ‘Austr. 373. 
Coast REGION: yaaa Div.; on moor-like ground, in Dutoits Kloof, 
2500-3500 ft., Dreg sa Theat bat f. 
Very distinct Sie B. capense by having much weaker shoots and culms, 
thinner sheaths, short glaucous scarcely rigid blades and anne ype" and 
ae elets, I have referred Schrader’s Poa papillosa to nse, and not 
bra get sls cies because Sohradet describes his teats a4 “hate erect 
palo and rigid filiform leaves. 
LXXXII. BRIZA, Linn. 
Spikelets many-flowered, laterally eg dior panicled ; 
dioeticclaton above the glumes and between the valves 
hermaphrodite, the upper ~oradually lait, Glumes scarious or 
firmly membranous, keeled or boat-shaped or saecate with the back 
rounded, persistent, 3- to sub-7-nerved, subequal, Valves close, 
firmly membranous with scarious margins or almost wholly scarious, 
keeled or boat-shaped or saceate with the back rounded, praie a 
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subacuminate or subaristate, 7—9-nerved, outer 3 or i 
rely 5-nerved, with the tide. 
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“riage keels often winged. Lodicules 2, obliquely ovate , hyaline, 
fleshy the base. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles short, 
rei stigmas very slender, loosely Cece laterally exserted. 
Grain tightly embraced by the hardened back of the vais. and the 
pale, usually adherent to the latter, aE to -convex, 
usually dorsally compressed ; hilum basal, small, elliptic, ‘ébloas or 
linear ; embryo small. : 
£23 
