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Bromus. ] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 731 
Afghanistan and in North-West India, whilst specimens agreeing exactly with 
samples from South ge - rh been collected i in Asia Minor, the Sinai Peninsula, 
Afghanistan, and St. 
Steudel suggests that B. hi obec Lichtenst. ex Roem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 654, 
belongs to B. patulus, var. vestitu 
ia maximus (Desf. Fl). Atlant. i. 95, t. 26); annual; culms 
hyaline, delicate, 2-21 lin. long, fimbriate- toot ed; bla pes eee 
tapering to an acute point, 4-12 in by 2-4 lin., flat, subflaccid, 
dark green, margins scaberulous ; panicles erect or slightly nodding, 
more or less contract ted, 4-9 in. long (inclusive of the awns) ; 
axis terete, striate, dcalaalouk to hispidulous; branches 3-6-nate, 
unequal, 2-1. (rarel 3-) spiculate, longest 2-3 in. long, filiform, 
fl ca 
rather stout ; spikelets cuneate (whe n open), 1j-1{ in. long, green, 
5—7-flowered ; rhachilla slender, scabrid, joints 2-3 lin. long ; glumes 
subulate to lanceolate- subulate in profile, finely acuminate, green 
along the nerves, otherwise scarious, lower 1- to sub-3-nerved, 
7-10 lin. long, oader, 3-nerved, 11-14 lin. long, keels 
scabrid ;_ valves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, abo i 
7-nerved, scabrid, upper margins and the finely bifid tips hyaline, 
white; awn permanently straight, sca rid, 2-24 in. lon allus 
¢ lin. long; pales narrow, abou n. long, keels remotely rigidly 
ciliolate ; stamens 3 (in the South ‘Adina specimens) or 2; ers 
3-11 lin. long; ovary pubescent just below the appendage; grain 
linear, about 7 lin. long, strongly convexo-concave. Kunth. um. 
i. 419 ; Engl. Bot. t, 2820; ed. iii. t. 1798; Retehb. Ic. Fl. Germ. 
1. t. 73, Jig. 1585; Steud. ‘Syn. Pi. Glum. i. 319; Sowerby, Brit. 
Grass. t. 101; Durand & Schinz, vires Fl, Afr. v. 925. B. rigidus, 
Boiss. Fl. Or. v. 649, not “: of Roth 
Coast Reaton: Cape Div.; by the railway at Rondebosch, Wolley Dod, 
3153! by wet socks at Hout Bay Woheries, Wolley Dod, 3208! Introduced. 
A native of the Mediterranean countries and Western Europe. 
6. B. leptoclados (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 453); perennial; culms 
erect or subereet from a short oblique rhizome, rather stout, * more 
exserted; leaves usually scantily and spreadingly hairy or almos 
glabrous ; soca tight, striate or suleate, lowest thin, igs eee 
not breaking up into fibres ; rie es hyaline, 1-2 lin. long; blades 
linear, tapering to an acute point, 6-10 in. by 2-5 lin., flat, sub- 
flaccid, dull or sometimes eee strongly striate, scaberulous 
to scabrid or almost smoot below, margins scabrid, midri promi- 
nent below, whitish ; panicle 6-9 in. long, erect, very lax ; axis 
