722 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Festuca. 
or involute when dry, green or glaucous on the upper side, smooth 
except on the scabrid margins or rough above, 9-13-nerved, nerves 
very prominent above; panicle large, subeorymbose, over } ft. long, 
base enclosed in uppermost sheath or very shortly exserted ; rhachis 
straight, angular, or acutely aneipitous above, very scabrid ; branches 
2-3- (rarely 4-) nate, distant, 4-6 in. long, straight, at first suberect, 
then spreading, spinulously seabrid along the angles, with 4—1 spike- 
lets near the tips; pedicels very unequal, very short, up to 8 lin. 
long ; spikelets 3-5-flowered, oblong to elliptic, 4-5 lin. long, light 
lanceolate in profile, acute, 31 lin. long, herbaceous-chartaceous, 
stoutly 5-ribbed, scaberulous, at least towards the rigid tips, keels 
stout, scabrid ; lodicules unequally 2-lobed, 3 lin. long ; anthers 
12 lin. long; ovary top puberulous. . costata, var. fascicularis, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 447. 
_ Coast Rreton: Albany Div.; on stony slopes, near Grahamstown, 2000 ft , 
MacOwan, 1323! Komgha Div.; valleys near Komgha, Flanagan, 898! King 
Williamstown Div. ; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 35! Stockenstrom Div.; on 
the Winter Berg, Ecklon. 
Eastern ReGion;: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 363! 
5. F. scabra (Vahl, Symb. Bot. ii. 21); dicecious; oe 
ceespitose ; innovation shoots intravaginal; culms erect, 3-3 ft. long, 
straight or slightly nodding, 3-8 in. long; rhachis terete, striate and 
smooth below, angular and scabrid to hispidulous above; branches 
Z-nate or solitary, sparingly to abundantly and very closely divided 
from the base or rarely undivided for a few lines; branehlets and 
4—6-flowered ; florets unisexual with the rudiments of the other 
sex; glumes unequal to subequal, linear-lanceolate in profile, acute 
to subobtuse, firmly herbaceous except at the hyaline margins, smooth 
or scaberulous, lower usually shorter, 11-21 lin. long, 1-nerved, 
upper 1}-3 lin. long, 3-nerved ; valves oblong, acute or subacute, 
sometimes mucronulate, 23-31 lin. long, scaberulous at least in the 
upper part, distinctly 5-nerved ; pales minutely 2-toothed or entire, 
keels stout, seabrid ; lodicules ovate, acute; anthers 1} lin. long 0” 
fine long filaments in the ¢, very minute and empty and on very 
short delicate filaments in the 9; ovary obovoid, very densely 
