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Bromus. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 729 
more or less secund, 3-6 in. long; axis terete, scaberulous or smooth 
below ; lower branchlets 2—-4- (or in robust specimens to 6-) nate, 
very unequal, 1-2- (rarely 3- or 4-) spiculate, a or Sodithe. finely 
filiform, flexuous, scaberulous to scabrid, the longest up to 2 (arely 
er much broader, 
valves apse debvideablens in ae 31-5 lin. long, 7-9- 
n the ivr ly longer (to 5 lin.) in the upper valves, from 
2~% lin. below the tip; pales 31—4 lin. ne obtuse, keels distantly 
ciliate ; anthers elliptic, 3—8 lin. long; grain 3-31 lin. long, tightly 
adhering to valve an pale, strongly bE Nel) mel. Fl. 
Bad. iv. 72, t. 4; Kunth, Enum. i. 414; Reichb. Ic. Fl. pti ted. 
74, fig. 1589; Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 825; Fl. Dan. t. 2526; 
inch Schinz, Consp. FI. CAMs vy. 923, 
TRAL Reeion: Graaff Reinet Diy.; in cultivated ground in the Sneeuw- 
heer jase 4500 ft. , Bolus, 2057! (introduced). 
Throughout Brivtipe and in North Africa, usually as a weed. 
4 B. patulus (Mert. & Koch in Rohl. Deutschl. Fl. i. 685); 
annual ; culms fascicled or tufted, geniculate, shortly iar or 
suberect, slender to stout, 1-12 ft. high, glabrous, smooth or scaberu- 
lous to pubescent below the panicle and the nodes, 2-4'noded, upper 
internodes exserted, uppermost very long ; leaves finely hairy to 
villous ; ; sheaths rather tight, thin, strongly striate ; ligules delicate, 
< to almost 2 lin. long, fimbriate-toothed ; blades linear, tapering to an 
i in. (in the South 
flat, flaccid ; panicle usu ually more or ae nodding, 3 —5 in. 5 (i 
3—6-nate, 2-1. (ra aa 3.) 1 ig ae serra finely eieen, very 
exuous, scabrid ; lateral pedicels 2 to more than 6 lin. long; spike- 
lets oblong, light green or purplish, 8-12 lin. long, 7-10-flowered ; 
thachilla joints clavate, smooth or almost so, up to 1 lin _ Jong; 
upper broader, 4—52 lin. long, 5—7-nerved, scaberulous on the nerves ; 
valves obliquely oblong, 4-6 lin. long (in the South African specimens), 
7- to sub-9-nerved, scaberulous or scabrid at least tow: the tips, 
rarely quite smooth, widest at the middle or slightly above it, 
margins gently curved from this point towards the tip and white, 
shining and hyaline, straight towar ds the base ; awn from 1-1} lin. 
below the entire or denticulate or 2-toothed hyaline tips, straight to 
