Entoplocamia.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 711 
subrecurved tips, thin below, prominently 9-ll-nerved above 
keeled ; callus 0, Pales as long as the valves, 2-toothed, 2- keeled, 
keels winged with a tuft of long dates wool from the inner base of 
the broad flaps. Lodicules 0. Ovary glabrous; styles connate at 
laterally flattened ; pericarp thin, loose ; embryo } as long as the 
grain or less ; hilum punetiform, basal. 
Per nial ; blades linear, flat or involute; ligule a hairy rim; spikelets 
dati or in clusters or secondary spikes of few to 9s spikelets on the i of a 
simple or compound spike, the lowest of a cluster often smaller or bar 
Species 1, in Hereroland and Namaqualand, 
. E. aristulata (Stapf) ; — culms erect, 1-2 ft. long, glab- 
tous, smooth, 2—3-noded; internodes exserted ; stiéathe glabrous 
except fora beard at the mouth, side: lowest keeled ; blades linear, 
tapering to a setaceous point, 3-6 in. by 1-12 lin. long, flat or rolled 
in when dry, glaucous, finely puberulous or pation on both sides, 
or with scattered long hairs towards the 3 spike 2-3 in. long ; 
longest branches up to 8-9 lin. long, bidders, broad, more or less 
onan like the rhachis scabrid to hispid along the angles ; spikelets 
ate, 41-8 lin. long, 4—5 lin. broad ; glumes lanceolate, lower 2 lin, 
Ae upper broader and over 2+ lin. long, keels ecg a 
long, whitish below, dark grey and punctate upwards, nerves curved 
and conn niving above, stout, margins very narrow and “cilia ate above, 
broad and ciliate at the base ; pales oblong, white and hyaline except 
at the green tips, keel-wings ciliate, flaps long ciliate along the 
margins, almost glabrous on the faces, with a tuft of long wool at the 
inner base, hairs up to 2 lin. long; filaments 4~43 lin. long ; anthers 
ey lin. long ; styles over 3 lin. long; stigmas ‘almost 2 lin. long ; 
grain broad, oblong, truncate, more than 1 lin. long; seed brown, 
* gain re Tetrachne aristulata, Hack. § Rendle in Journ. 
Bot. 
nite Region: Little Namaqualand; Ookiep, Scully’ 
Also in Hereroland (Dinter, 10!). 
LXXXVI. POA, Linn. 
Spikelets mostly 2—6-flowered, in loose or close (rarely in spike-like) 
a ag i sah si apa above the glumes and between th 
va ntily and minutely hairy; read ‘iseinsgliaaidihe 
or the up er faiparok Glumes thin, membranous, keeled, acute or 
obtuse, [-3-nerved. Valves membranous, sometimes rather rm, 
ss or acute, 5-7 -nerved ; callus ene: — often ey a tuft 
more or less 2-lobed. segs ee ce short, 
free ; stigmas plumose, inurellg: exserted. ’ Grate ovoid, oblong or 
