736 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). | Brachypodium. 
geniculate, ascending, 3-1; ft.long, glabrous or sparingly hairy below 
the nodes, smooth or slightly rough in the upper part, 3—-4-noded, inter- 
nodes exserted, uppermost ultimately becoming by far the longest ; 
sheaths rather tight, herbaceous, striate, spreadingly hairy or finely 
pubescent or glabrescent, Ea! ciliate along the upper margins, 
tinely tomentose >. the nodes ; ligules = obtuse, eae Simic 
more or r less AD Cae he “all over; false spike erect, straight, 
2-ranked, 4-1- (rarely to 6-) spiculate, up to 3 in. long ; rhachis 
slightly rough except at the scabrid margins, striate ; S sarpaaee stout, 
very short or obsolete; spikelets erect, mae e 34 to more than 
1 in. long, glabrous or sparingly hairy, 6 2-flowered ; fae 
in 
firmly duabenesh 
in the lowest florets; pales about 33 lin. long, keels very rigidly 
ciliate in the upper part ; stamens : oy the South African specimens) 
g; grain oblong-linear, 
t.10; Durand & Schinz, aes Fl. Afr. v. 929. Bromus distachyos, 
Linn. Amen. iv. 304; Host, Gram. Austr. i. t. 20. B. ciliatus, 
Lam. Fl. Frane. iii. 609. Festuca ciliata, clei Hort. Monsp. 
48 and 547. F. monostachya, Poir. Voy. Bar . 98; Desf. Fl. 
Atl. i. 92, ¢. 24; fig. 2. FF rbenogei Willd. pee . Hort. Berol. 
i 118; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 317. Triticum ciliatum, DC. 
Fl. France. iii. 85; Kunth, Enum. i. 447. rage ee distachya, 
Link, Hort. Berol. i. 43. Reichd. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 14, fig. 1368 ; 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 458. 
ReeGion: Cape Div.; 3 near Capetown, nag Barc beyond Alphen 
Bridge, Wolley Dod, 3488! shore between Sea Poi d Camps Bay, and 
common in grassy places all over Signal Hill, Wolley od pai by the railway 
between Maitland and Bridge, Wolley Dod, 3226! Ge eorge Div.; in the Karroo 
by the Gauritz Bi ers Ecklon 
ENTRAL REG Aberdeen Div.; in the Camdeboo Mountains, Drége! 
A native of me aalhgauan region. 
