Scleropoa. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 719 
EGION: Cape Div.; Constantia Road, site ne Wolley Dod, 
Coast Re 
2039! also in Newlands Woods, according to Wolley 
of South and Western Europe, ete Africa and Western Asia ; 
Chand ape raattine ed. 
LXXXIX, FESTUCA, Linn. 
Spikelets laterally ogee" (at least after phon) panicled ; 
d 
thachilla disarticulating abov glumes and between the valves. 
Florets 2 to many, ¢ (the uppermost usually Fadhaaind distinctly 
exserted from the glumes. Glumes subequal, rarely conspicuously 
unequal, esr sc or cubsaario ous, more or nr te eled, 1 aa 
(rarely the upper 5-) nerved. Val s lanceola te, us, muc 
nate or awned, et ee sinebein on the back or e keels a sedi 
the tip, 5-7-nerved ; mucro or awn from the tip or very close to it, 
straight ; callus small, et set or almost so. Pales 2-keeled, more 
or or 2- eying ge eae - agape argc 2-lobed or entire, hyaline. 
Stam 
dis ie ; 
laterally exserted. 
Ovary g 
ve ery short, 
glabro 
iO, subterminal; stigmas plumo. 
Grain tightly eos ‘. the slightly fandehed 
ess adhering to the pale or to both, 
valve and pale, free or more 0 
oblong, dorsally convex, Siived or concave in front ; 
long ; embryo s 
Perennial, tufted ; 
flat, folde d or conyolut set 
contracted or open, phoney pf 
hilum linear, 
rer agy ii or more or less closed ; ligules scarious ; blades 
ceous ; panicles more or less co’ 
mpound, 
ous species, often very difficult to discriminate, in the 
Num 
ae culary of the northern hemisphere, and a few in the high mountains of the 
ropic 
Florets hermaphrodite 
lades “permanently folded, filiform or seta 
d, flexuons ; — elets 4-6 lin. ae, 
ves mucronate or shor tly aw 
Binen convolute in bud, then pig or involute when 
dr 
Top of ovary glabrous ; panicle a reduced to 
raceme; ligules extremely sl 
Top of ovary hairy ; ligules L21i n ae 
Panicle compound, more or less 
ches long, flexuous, Peon from about 
the middle ; spikelet nen valves 
ely but distinctly 
Dicecious ; panicles ieokity den st spike-like ; 
spikelets 4-5 lin. long; culm: tf ites tightly 
coated at the base by the fibres of the ee sheaths 
(1) caprica, 
(2) vulpioides. 
(3) costata. 
(4) longipes. 
(5) seabra. 
F. caprina (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. rege densely czspitose 
| intravaginal innovation shoots; culm 
11 ft. high, smooth, 2-noded, node at 
erect, gine wn 
low 
uppe ae 
middle ; sheaths closed at the base only, tight, smooth, "thin, ‘an 
