Bromus.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 735 
v. 928. B. Willdenowit, eee Rév. Gram, i. 134; Enum. i. 416. 
Po, unioloides, Beauv. Agrost. Expl. planch. 1], ¢. 15, fig. 7; 
Roem. § Schult. Syst. ii. 596; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 449, 5 arab 
unioloides, Willd. Hort. Berol. i. 3, ¢. 38; Enum. Hort. Berel. 115. 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; in gardens near Capetown, Ecklon! oe Ronde- 
hose Seating, Waitey Dod, 2156! 3566! Port Elizabeth Div aig ig lizabeth, 
E.S.C.A. Her rb., 186! Albany Div.; very common throu ughou t the disigion. 
MacOwan, 1510! Queenstown Div. ; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin 
ao RI Re@ion: Transvaal; near Pretoria, Wilms, 1714a! near Lyden- 
burg, Wins, 1 1712! 
EasteRN Recion: Natal; Hermannsburg Station, 3000 ft., Buchanan, 235! 
Throu ena ut America (probably a native of South America); introduced into 
etn Enrope, India, Sauth Api sa. Tristan d’Acunha, &c.; often grown for 
B. laxiflorus (Spreng. ex Stend. Nomencl. Bot.i, 120; Durand & Schinz, poe 
Fi. Afr. Austr. v v. 928) undescribed, isa name referriug to one of Zeyher’s grasse 
XCII. BRACHYPODIOM, Beauv. (in part). 
Spikelets at first cylindric, then laterally compressed, in a simple 
raceme or false spike with very short pedicels, with the flattened side 
to the axis; rhachilla sabia, disartieulating above the glumes and 
between the valves. Florets 5 to many, ¢, the alec more or 
or truneate, clightly shorter than the valve, 2-keeled, keels rigidly 
ciliate. Lodicules 2, 1 seicuiilates usually ciliolate. Stamens 3, rarel 
2. O with a villous appendage at the top; styles laterally 
Inserted on the appendage, very short; stigmas pis , laterally 
exserted. Grain linear or linear-oblong, convexo-concave, adherin 
more or less to the pale; embryo small ; hilum filiform, Hone 
Perennial or once blades flat or setaceously involute ; racemes terminal, 
joints of axis more or less hallowed out (at least the lower) on the side facing 
ath spikelets ; spikelets usually few (sometimes 1), erect or spreading, rather 
Tge. 
Species about 15, often very difficult to discriminate, mainly in the temperate 
regions of the no rthern hem ee 
Annual ; anthers }-3 lin a ius (1) distachyum. 
Perenn ial ; anthers 14-2 bees long 
Loosely branched or ra Pa ; enlms leafy for 
seve than half their rela blades we 
‘ mes more xu ae SS ae (2) flexum. 
ponie Cx se; leaves at ed a ase 5 ; 
biadios sieue teagietaas te; racemes straight ... (3) Bolusii. 
1, B. distachyum (Beauv. Agrost. 155) ; annual ; culms fascicled, 
or simple or branched below, often very strongly and repeatedly 
