cimiiatienee a cares hea, ee | 
Festuca. | GRAMINER (Stapf). 721 
anthers 1} lin. long; ovary quite glabrous. Durand § Schinz, Consp. 
Fi. ge . 921. Vulpia megastachya, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 441. 
H AFRICA: without precise locality, Drége / 
Coase Recion: King Williamstown Div. ; ease Mountains, Buchanan, 
45! 
costata (Nees, FJ. Afr. Austr. 447, excel. var.); perennial ; 
densely Weed ; Innovation shoots intravaginal ; culms erect, robust, 
t 
sclerenchymatous layer on the back; panicle contracted or open, lax, 
an , Or ancipitous above; branehes 2- 0 e, lower 
remote, filiform, flexuous, erect or spreading, angular or ancipitous, 
smooth or seabrid, owest 4- long, ally undivided to th 
erect or nodding, elliptic, 6-8 lin. long, green, tinged with purple or 
violet, very loosely 3-7-flowered ; rhachilla very slender ; joints up 
to 1 lin n. long ; eee sean or mie genet! shorter, 21-3 lin. 
e, 3- 
long, rather firm, scaberulous, hrs rapes keels of pale 
scaberulous ; lodioules lanceolate, over % lin. long ; anthets 9-3: -lin: 
long; top of ovary pubescent. Stew id. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 313; 
Durand § sine Consp. Fl. Afr. ¥ bas 
ta (Nees, l.c., in part); blades 4-8 in. Age 8 boa convolute ; 
Var. , lon 
panicle seanty ; rome tise — into a fine kishore 1-14 li 
AST on: Albany Div., Ecklon § Zeyher, at Queenstown Div. ; 
mountains on the Klipplaat Reval. Ecklon. Stochistatsoik Div. ; aes e Winter 
Berg, near Philipton, Ecklon! Kat Berg, 4000-5000 ft., Drége! Cathcart 
Div.; Windvogel Berg, 5000 ft., Drége! Var. 8: Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 
geo t., Drége ! 
Nn Reaion: Natal; Riet Vlei, 4000-5000 ft., Buchanan, 234! Benvie, 
Kar Kloof, "3000-4000 ft., Wood, 6005! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 
Also j in Nyasaland. 
4..F, Joseipes (Stapf) ; tufted ; innovation shoots extravaginal ; 
ms shortly ascending, sometimes geniculate, about 3 ft. h 
(cls of the panicle), usually seabrid below the peal 1-2- 
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