Tirert st erte 
oe Tatas eetegae ‘ 
Briza. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 709 
4:3. or (Linn. Sp. Pl. 70); annual, glabrous ; culms tufted, 
seniculate, }—2 ft. long, smooth or somewhat rough above, 2-3-noded ; 
internodes exserted, at least ultimately; sheaths loose, smooth, the 
lower thin, striate; ligules oblong, 2-3 lin. long; blades linear to 
lanceolate-linear, acute, 2-8 in. by 3-41 lin., flat, flaccid, more or 
less scabrid or almost smooth ; panicle broadly obovate, 2-4 in. long 
and almost as broad, erect, lax, rather divaricate; rhachis slender, 
straight ; branches ge eminate, distantly and repeatedly tri- or di- cho- 
tomously branched, seabrid, ‘filiform ‘to eapillary, the lowest up to 
3 in. long; pedicels 6-2 lin, long, finely capillary, smooth above ; 
pleats triangular to ovate, very obtuse, often broader than long, 
1)-2 lin. long, 4-7-flowered, nodding, green, rarely purplish below ; 
glumes thinly scarious, orzo spreading, subequal, obtuse or 
subacute, 3-nerved, 1-11 lin. long; valves very close, very broadly 
cordate-ovate, very obtuse with the tips often inflexed, very gibbous 
below, 1— lj: lin. long, glabrous, 7-nerved, the side-nerves joining at 
o> oa 
the base, hyaline margins very broad ; pales elliptic, scarcely 3 lin. 
= lin. long; anthers almost 3 lin. long in the er florets, much 
smaller in the upper ; grain shortly oblong, ea ali pion, coneave 
or B. Spe 13; He broadly nig: 3 lin. long. Berg. Dese "> Pl, Cap. 
oo Cram — vite 98 ; Sibth. § Sm. Fl. Gree.i. 
31 = n 
Reichb. Ic. Fl, Germ. ist. 92 ; Steud, Sy on PL Glum. i. 289 ; Baker, 
Fl. Maurit. 457; Duwi and § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 900. 
B. deltoidea, Burm. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 3. B. virens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 
ii, 103; Steud. in Flora, 1829, 490; Kunth, Enum. i, 372; Nees 
Ss 
in Linnea, vii. 326; Ft, Afr. Austr. 414 (non Trin. 
da H AFRICA: without precise bmeed! Rohan berg! 
Coa ——- on: Clanwilliam Div e Olifants River, £cklon. Mienagin toes 
dorp Div, ; Gift Berg, 1500-2000 ft, pe vege. Cape Div. ; common nea = 
i. Pappe: ! Table Mountain, Ecklon ; Mud ! Devils Mountain and So 
Ecklon, Simons s Bay, MacGilivray, 400! Wright! near Westerford, Woltey 
Dod, 1904! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, by streamlets, 1000-1500 fi., Drege. 
Tulbagh Div. ; s Talbogh Kloof, Ecklon ¥ Le yher ‘Eecuu Div.; Great Vals 
- River, Burchel 6540! hills near the sara River, Burchell, 6751! 
it 
lv.3; near Coldspring, Fanaa yan, 777! 
Mediterranean regions ; introduced into many parts of the world. 
Uitenhage Div. : cultivated ground, by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon. Albany 
ne ly known species. 
3. B. spicata (Burm. Fl. Cap. Prodr. 3, not Sibth. & Sm.) is 
Possibly Brizopyrum pas 
LXXXIII. TETRACHNE, Nees. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, awnless, <cagee imbricate, biseriate, 
sessile, unilateral on the flattened rhachis of a compound spike, 
joi inted on and ‘falling entire from it, uppermost terminal ; rhachilla 
