teenies ss Saee e 
es 
Poa.] GRAMINES (Stapf). 713 
i. 352; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 380; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. oe 
Syn. Pi. Glum. i. 250 ; Durand J Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
a 
N ReEGion: Little Pecyni Kamies Bergen, by a dried-up 
hese near Kuil, 3500 ft., Dré 
Temperate regions of Europe, oh and North Africa. 
The dom is oy up from European and Asiatic specimens, as I have 
not seen Drége’s p 
Ea, ste up to 2 in. wien ‘glabrous, smooth ; panicle very ax, 
27 in. long; rhachis very yeah smooth ; branches ea a distant, 
flexuous, often deflexed, finely filiform, up to 11 in. long, quite 
smooth, '2-6-spiculate near ae tips ; arts B agetigs very pith tips 
thiekened, smooth ; spikelets variegated, 2 lin. long, 3-flowered ; 
glumes thin, lower narrow, oblong “when ill aeute, 1-nerved, 
up to 1% lin. long, upper broad, oblong, subacute, 3-nerved, up to 
2 lin. long, almost wholly purple ; valves rather thin, oblong, acute 
to subacute, up to 23 lin. long, silky pubescent below along the 
keel and outer nerves, yore scanty short wool from the base, inner 
ee -herves very faint, s hyaline; pale of the lower valves 
-f Shorter than these, 2- tothe keels scabrid. 
ce Region: Graaff Reinet Div. ; summit of Compass Berg, Atherstone, 
Only one specimen is known. It is 9 in. Tigh; —— of the panicle, and 
comprises only 2 culm internodes, the lower of which is much exceeded by its 
sheath. It represents evidently only the upper pat ofa ne 
from a ndeslltiies prostrate ae bra nche d fas ,l- 3 ft. long, egal 
uppermost ; leaves numerous ; lo straaee embracing each other, 
ae striate, ike the upper gore tight ; ligules a narrow mem- 
ranous ene up to 4 lin. long; blades ou acute, lower and 
smooth he towards the tips; panicle 23-3} in. long, lax, 
ing ; rhachis smooth, very slender; branches 5- 3-nate, 
longest up to 1} in. long and naked for j—? in., simple or almost so, 
s linear- oblong in profile, over 1} 
minutely Q-toothed, somatintion with an obscure mucro in the 
