720 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Festuea. 
subpersistent; ligule very short, more or less obtusely apenie 
des filiform, acute, —8 in. long, fo flexuous, 5—7-nerved 
smooth on the back, scabrid on the face ; caus contracted, narrow, 
flexuous, 2-6 in. long; rhaehis angular, seabrid or smooth below ; 
branches usually solitary, lower remote, flexuous or straight, finely 
filiform, scaberulous, hey sparingly branched from near the base, or 
the leant up to 14-2 in. long, and undivided for 3—1 in. ; lateral 
pedicels ove to es ahi: spikelets elliptic- oblong to oblong, 
4—6 lin. long, 3—8-flowered, areenish ; Lamar equal or subequal, 
lanceolate iy ‘oblong-lanceolate, acute, les 21 Jin. long, herbaceous- 
membranous, scaberulous, lower 1-, upper 3, nerved ; valves linear- 
lanceolate in profile, acute, usually produced into a short fine bristle, 
smooth or very finely s caberulous near the tip ; nerves 5, very faint; 
keels of pales iene lodicules ovate-lanceolate ; anthers A 
to 11 lin. long; top of ovary minutely hispid. Steud. 8 yn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 313; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr.v. 913. F. costatu, 
var. longiseta, Nees, Fl. Afi. Austr. 447 (in part). 
Var. 8, irrasa (Stapf); blades shorter and more rigid, 3-6 in. long; valves 
densely pubescent. 
lt x macra Ai i? blades very finely filiform, rough, 3-5-nerved ; ast 
and flex branchlets very fine, 2— i — culate ; pedicels rather long 
ladon slightly ga ae with longer awn 
Souts Arrica: without precise locality, Drége, —o 
Coast REGION: arora Div. ; 3 Table Mounta N66 000-6900 ft., Drege ! 
Storm ‘Borgen , 5009-6000 ft., Cte ee King Williamstown Div.’5 Amatola 
Albany Div.; Hov 
Mountains, Buchanan, 39! Var. B: any visons Poort, near 
Grahamstown, Flanagan, 94! King Williamstown Vives Amatola Mount ray 
uchan n, 37! 38! 41! 
ee RI Reeton: Orange Free State ; without precise locatity, Buchanan, 
SL! Var. y: Orange Free ‘State ; on the Witte Bergen, near Harrismith, 
Buchanan, 262! 
2. F. vulpioides (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 305); perennial ; 
culms shortly ascending, subgeniculate, 11—2 ft. long, smooth, 3-4- 
noded, internodes (except the lowest) exserted ; leaves glabrous ; 
lower sheaths somewhat tight, subpersistent, Steed loose, all smooth ; 
ligules very og oe ‘reduee to a membranous rim ; blades linear, 
acute, 4-6 in. by 2-2} lin., flat, seaberulous towards the tips and 
along the margins ; : ats very narrow, almost reduced to ® 
raceme, straight or flexuous, 6-7 in. long; rhachis like the heey 8 
: 3-nate 
wn, 4-5} lin. long, firml os Mi seatakl * scabera ous 
toward the tip, inconspicuously 5- to sub-7-nerved; keels of pales 
stout, crested, scaberulous ; lodieules unequally nen denticulate 
