714 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Poa. 
Souru AFRicA: without precise locality, Zeyher ! 
The mode of growth is boners to that of P. compressa ; the panicle, however, 
is ieaita different. The spikelets are as in certain forms of P. pratensis or of | 
P. nemoralis, but the Gee. of the valves are constantly notched. 
4. P. trivialis (Linn. Sp. Pl. 67); perennial, ars tufted, 
glabrous ; culms genieulately ee. usually from a short arched 
rooting base, 14-2 ft. long, terete or ten aii eee seabrid 
above, rarely smooth all along, about 3-noded ; internodes exserted ; 
ovate or oo when open, ereet or ahighily sew 3-7 in. 
of 4—6 (mostly of 5), unequal, filiform, scaberulous, the longest up 
© 3 in. long and undivided often for more than 1} their ‘length, 
diaten soe or closely et sageniebi ultimate branchlets closely 6-2- 
ovate boblong acute, 1-2 lin, long, $d leweted ; glumes subequal, 
3-nerved; side-nerves prominent, keel very seabrid ; valves oblong, 
acute, rather firm, lower 12 lin. long, pubescent along the keel to the 
middle, otherwise glabrous, side-nerves rather prominent ; callus 
with a small tuft of very long wool; pales 14 lin. long, 2.toothed, 
vise finely and very densely scabrid ; anthers 1 lin. ‘long ; grain 
+ lin. Jong, grooved. ost, Gram. Austr. ii. 45, t. 62; Engl. Bot. 
1072; Trin. in Mém. Acad. — sér. 6, i. (1831) 380, — in 
Gram, Gen. 380; Kunth, Enum 352; Reichb. Ic. Fl. 
i. t, 89; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 251; Doe § Schinz, Consp. wo 
Afr. v. 909. 
Eastern Recion: Natal; without precise locality, Buchanan, 33! 
Probably introduced ; a native of the temperate regions of the Old World. 
5. P. binata (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 378) ; perennial, compactly 
cwspitose, glabrous; culms erect, 2 2 ft. high, rarely t taller, more 
or less compressed below, arian 2—-noded, internodes exserted ; 
leaves porno near the base ; ; sheaths tight, smooth, the boner more 
lets crowded on t tips of the ake. ovate-oblong, 9-21 lin. 
long, closely 3-5- Pate pallid, rarely variegated with purple 5 
glumes rather unequal, lower ovate to oblong elivn expanded, acute, 
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