Bromus.] GRAMINER® (Stapf). 733 
cund; axis and branchlets scabrid to hispidulous; spikelets light green or 
ie with purple; nerves of glumes and valves less prominent than in the 
type 
EastERN REGION: Natal; without precise locality, Bacaanan, 58! Var. B: 
Natal; Weenen County, South Downs, 4000 ft., Wood, 4406! 
8. B. aaa are FI. Afr. Austr. 454) ; perennial ; culms erect, 
rather slender, 2 ft. high, glabrous, smooth, 3-4-noded, uppermost 
internodes very ee , long exserted ; leaves pubescent to subvillous 
except the glabrous 1-2 uppermost sheaths ; sheaths tight, strongly 
striate ; ligules hyaline, very short; blades linear, acute with a 
callous ’ point, 2-3 in. by 1 lin. , flat or involute above, erect, firm, 
strongly ples uppermost very mani panicle erect or somewha 
nodding, very Jax, scanty, subsecu 3-5 in. long; axis terete, 
glabrous, smooth, very slender ; biauehes 2° inte finely Slifoen. 
smooth, purpli ish 1-spiculate, lowest 1-2 in. long, very flexuous ; 
spikelets linear- -oblong, 11-21 in. long, loosely 7— 8-flowered, purplish ; 
rhachilla joints 141-2 lin. long, seabrid ; glumes unequal, o oblong- 
lanceolate in profile, acute, purple except at the narrow margin an 
tip, very scantily pubescent, lower 33-42 lin. long, 3-nerved, upper 
much broader, 5-6 lin. i e 
part purpl 
Straight, scabrid, 1}-3 lin. long, from close to the short minutely 
2-toothed tip ; callus very short, obtuse; pales equalling the valves, 
keels densely and spreadingly ciliate ; anthers 3-34 lin. long. d, 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 321 ; Durand § Schina, Consp. #i. Afr. v. 927. 
Coast Recion: Queenstown Div.; by the ee gag River, Ecklo 
role a Bergen, Drége. King Williamstown Div.; Amatola Méauiain 
uC 
Nees’s iu of the type of his B. speciosus fits very well the plant from 
the Amatola Mountains from which the above description is drawn up, with this 
ria A agi the t e describes the branches of the panicle as scabrid and the culms 
thick as a hen’s quill. 
the gla sate Sonne t sheath ; sheaths tight, strongly striate to 
sulcate ; ligule hyaline, about 2 ‘in. long; blades linear, — with 
lous point, 3-6 in. by 2-3 lin., erect, firm, strongly a very 
owered 
thachilla joints about 1 lin. long, seabrid to epee glumes 
unequal, pubescent, lower subulate to lanceolate in profile, 2 lin. 
long, 1-3-nerved, upper oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5 lin. 
long, 3~ 5-nerved ; valves lanceolate-cuneate in profile, about 6 lin, 
