732 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Bromus. 
slender, scabrid, striate; branches 3— tae filiform, seabrid, very 
flexuous, up to 5 in. long, undivi to about the middle, then 
very scantily divided, branchlets 3 —l-spiculate ; pedicels very 
unequal, lateral often much shorter than the spikelets ; spikelets 
linear-oblong, 8-15 lin. Jong, light green, more or less erect, very 
mer ly 5-10-flowered ; thachilla very slender, joints scabrid, up to 
lin. long; lumes unequal, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in 
snte acute to ad a ear yn lower 21—4 lin _ long, l-nerved, 
upper broader, 31-42 ong, 3-nerved, nerves strong and scabrid ; 
valves oblong-linear 1 in profile, 3-6 lin. long scaberulous or scabrid 
tip, fine, 8 atti, scaberulous, 2-3 1} 5 hatad ; pales 4-5 lin. long, 
keels rigidly ciliolate ; stamens 3 ; dteete about 1-14 lin. long; 
ovary pubescent close below the appendage ; ; grain (when oo 
linear, strongly convexo-concave. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 321; 
urand & Schinz, eee PT, Afr. v. 924. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; Cape Peninsula, close to the irs Bele 
Dod, 2302! bottom of the Kloof at the west side of the Lions Head, y Dod, 
2786 ! Swellend _ mie ie ; in the forest at Grootvaders Bosch, Bur ae "7249 | 
corre Div.; ae ford, Hu ton! 
: Somerset Div. ; woods on Bosch Berg, 4000 ft., MacOwan, 
1663! peal North Div. ; ; by the an eee, 4000-5000 ft., Drége 
EastERN Reoion: Natal; Riet Vlei, 5000 ft., Buchanan, 236 ! 
—_ allied to the European B. , Murr., and B, scabridus, Hook. f 
from Cameroon Peak, and particularly ss Te cognatus, "Steud., from Abyssinia, 
7. B. natalensis eee sain hy culms erect, slender above, 
1-3 ft. long, glabrous, mooth, a ut 4-noded, upper internodes ve 
long, exserted ; ; sheaths nents pact or nearly sO, one ligules 
hyaline, 3—3 lin. long; blades linear, over 4 in. by 12 , flat, firm, 
rare striate, very Sed: hairy or glabrous ; Fabacle! erect, up to 
. long, sometimes very scanty; axis terete, sigan brane es 
2-6. nate, filiform, 1-spiculate, purplish, smoo oth, almost 50, 
flexuous, longest up to 3 in. long; oo. lnceoate-blong, broad 
when quite open, glabrous, purplish, 14-12 ong, rather loosely 
7-9-flo ese rhachilla joints scabrid, 12 lin. cae glumes slightly 
unequal, lanceolate in profile, long acuminate, glabrous, lower 
d-63 lin. long, strongly 3-nerved, upper 63-71 lin. long, strongly 
the slender tips; awn strietly eal 4-5 lin. long, straight, 
scabrid ; callus short, obtuse; pales 6-7 oa long, keels loosely and 
rigidly ciliolate ; anthers 3 lin. lon ng. 
Var. 8, lasiophilus (Stapf) ; culms slender, scarcely 14 ft. high ; leaves shortly 
hairy all over ; blades up to 3 in. by 1 lin. ; panicle very scanty, about 6-spiculate, 
