734 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Bromus. 
long, rather firm, pubescent to tomentose or villous, 7-nerved, 
margins almost straight to the middle or somewhat beyond it, then 
bent at an obtuse angle or distinetly curved towards the acute tip; 
awn straight, scabrid to hispidulous, 2-2} lin. long, strictly terminal ; 
callus very short, obtuse; pales equalling the valves, pubescent, 
keels densely pe spreadingly ciliate. B. speciosus, var. firmior, 
Ne r. 454, 
Fl. Afr. Aus 
blocs B, a (Stapf); uppermost internode to more than 1 ft. long, 
ovth; panicle up to 8 in. long; axis smooth; br cae scaberulous to scabrid, 
Cnaonk up to 4 in. long and 2-spiculate ; spikelets 1-14 in. long ; valves tinged 
with purple in the upper part, but greyish from the itis tomentum, 6-8 lin 
long; awn from close below the tip; anthers 6-8 lin. long. 
Coast ReGion: Queenstown Div. ; e Storm Bergen, 5000-6000 00 ft., 
Drége! Var. 8: King Williamstown Div.s gin atola Mountains, Buchanan, 42! 
KALAHARI REGION ar. p+ OF range Free State; Witte Baa, near 
Harrismith, areal 265! 
10. B. unioloides (H. B. K. Nov. Gen. i. 151); annual; culms 
fascicled, erect or suberect, slender to ieice, 1-2 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, 2~-3-noded, uppermost internodes long exserted; lower 
sheaths thin, pallid, finely tomentose to spreadingly villous, upper 
green, prominently striate, glabrescent or glabrous and smooth; 
ligules ovate, obtuse, 1-2 Le long ; Lapse linear, tapering +s an 
or reduced to a raceme, from a ew inches to almost 1 ft. ihe axis 
terete, striate, smooth below, pala and seaberulous above; lower 
branches remote, 2—3-nate, 2-4. (rarely 5- ) spieulate, or all 1Lspieulate, 
filiform, angular, seabrid, longest to 2-3 in. long ; icels very 
unequal, lateral usually extremely aid spikelets erect or suberect, 
8-15 lin. long, lanceolate-oblong ohisee strongly compre 
light green to glaucous, 4-10-flo el 4 rhachilla very bagthe's ; joint 
stout, up to 12 lin. long, scaberulous on the outer side; florets 
aa elosed, cleistogamous; glumes lanceolate, acute or 
nate, firm except at the narrow white hyaline margins, glabrous, 
sats seat on the scaberulous keels, lower 41-61 lin. long; 
5-7-nerved, upper 51-8 lin. long, 7 -9-ne rved, nerves prominent ; 
n 
ree green, whitish below, were about ae wie 
pliumose ; grain strongly 
a apemtir deeply tip in front, tightly adhering to the valve 
and pale. Kunth, Enum. i. 415; Nees in Linnea, vii. 3195 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 36 « Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr- 
sn aera gan sega ght ig sh rh a nae eran 
