Brachypodium.] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 737 
so or glabrous and scabrid or scaberulous on the lower side ; false 
very short, up to 2 lin. long, finely puberulous to almost glabrous ; 
spikelets usually more or less ae Lied in. long, “glabrous, 
) 
up to 33 lin. long, shorter in the lower florets; pales 33 to rey 
pace le one in the upper Sag ; anthers over 131 
long, linear, d & Schinz, Consp. Fl . Afr v. 929 (the cae 
as Pidiee isa: Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 316. 
bags B, gi me ere tapf) ; ae very rough 
blades more rigid and hispid than in the cat false ‘ak Meld axis 
scabrid apikeldte erect ; glumes and valves more or less pubescen 
VaR -y, simplex larg 1h culms simple, up to more than 2 ft. any erect, rough 
from minute reversed hairs to reversedly hirsute, rarely smooth towards the 
panicle ; pani _ = to } ft, long, fea tane 5 spikelets erect or aeondin: up to 
1? in. lon ng, and to 18-flowered, glabrous, scaberulous ; glumes and valves by 
about 3-3 foes than in the type. 
Var. 3, tenue (Stapf); culms as in the type, but very slender; leaves Met 
glaucous, at hairy to glabrous 5 false spike and spikelets very slender 
florets loose and very narrow after fl g. 
ReGIon : Cape Div. ; near as Burchell, ae, agbinerenn pith ; 
n the forest <t: Grootvaders Bosch, gees Ul, gee sels 
Strand Fontein and Matjes — —- ft, ps igor 
locality, Ecklon § Zeyher, 563 ! et Cape . tes : “Old road ag ‘Geaien 
Nek, Wolley Dod, 2385! 
TRAL REGION: Somerset Div.; in woods at the foot of Bosch Berg, 
2800 ft. Bee ig 1495! ae 
Katana ARI ReGion: Orange e State; on the Witte Bergen near Harri- 
smith, Buchanan, 261! re Treva Houtbosth, Rehman, 5734! 
East TERN REGION: atal; Um and base of Biggars Ber, re, 
Diskinien, 104! on the ees Tange, eee Newcastle rea ete an, 198! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 60! 61! Nat ; Umpamnlo, 
2400 ft., Buchanan, 233! and without precise locality, aa rf ! 
B. fleewm resembles very much B. sylvaticum, Beauv., ino esto a 
rodu m ves 
than 2 the length of the culm, long exserted ; leaves seated at the 
base, lower sheaths compressed, subflabellate, keeled, whitish, striate, 
labrous or scantily hairy, subpersistent, upper terete, fin ely and 
Stier hairy ; ligules very short, truncate ; blades linear. -lanceo- 
