726 GRAMINE® (Stapf). | Vulpia. 
erg River near Paarl, Drége ! Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottento val pare ae 
Secliondan Divs hills by the Zonder Hinde River, Heklon; in the forest 
Grootvaders Bos ch, Burchell, 7237! Riversdale Div. ; near the Zostemels 
River, Burchell, 6633! George Div. ; Lange Kloof Mountains, Eck Uit 
hage Div. ; by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon / near Uitenhage, Pats 4223 | ! 
Alban ny Div. ; Brand Kraal, near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1278 ! 
anyon the Mediterranean region and in setae and Western Europe, on 
Cam and in Abyssinia; elsewhere introduced, 
is an i ee of stamens constantly 1 in a: South African specimens as 
well as in the European. 
XCI. BROMUS, Linn. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, at least after a papi 
panicled ; rhachilla disarticulating above the glumes and between the 
valves. Florets usually numerous, the u ere ee ced. 
Glumes more or less unequal, acute to acuminate, persistent, lower 
1-7-, upper 3—-9-, nerved and sometimes mueronate or aristulate. 
5-13-nerved, usually awned ; awn terminal (rarely 3 or 0) or some- 
what distant from the often 2-toothed tip, straight or recurved and 
then often = ee twisted below, not kneed. Pales entire or bifid ; 
keels usually rigidly ciliolate or ciliate. Lodicules 2, oblong or 
lanceolate, entire or lobed. greiner 3, rarely 2. Ovary obovoid 
with an often large, villous, 3- or 2-lobed terminal appendage ; 
styles short, lateral on the a ndage stigmas plumose, laterally 
exserted, or in the cleistogamic species permanently enclosed. Grain 
linear to linear-oblong, convexo-concave and usually adherent to the 
valve and Doge or at least to the latter; hilum filiform, long ; 
embryo sm 
Annua, ie bee as of very varying habit; blades linear, flat, often flaccid ; 
Hsiao membranous, hyaline ; og contra cted, often very dense, or open and 
n effuse, or reduced to a raceme ; spikelets rathe r large, erect or pendaloas, 
froin ov oid to linear-oblong or inser: -cuneate ; awns very long or short, sometimes 
Seca aarti ucro or 0. 
her aan mostly in the temperate regions of the northern 
i aera re of South America, several in the high mountains of the tropics. 
Section 1, SERRAFALCUS aye Annual ; coger gem are to oblong ; 
lower glum e 3-5- (rarely 1-) nerved; upper glume Sg rved; valves 7-9- 
; haaraeiek of thachilla more or less clavate abov 
Paniele contracted, dense; branches shorter than - : 
spikelets vat Pe ye ... (1) molliformis. 
oe loose, open or contracted ; ‘lower branches 
ra longer ; 
anthers 1 to almost 2 lin. a ae vss vee (2) arvensis. 
lin 
close ;_ val 
obliquely se etacd Hg + pot tips 
