laste 
Lolium.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 739 
about the length of the internodes, or the lower shorter and more 
distant, the upper more approximate, laterally compressed, 5-9 lin. 
long, 5- 9-flowered ; florets turgid; upper glume oblong, equalling or 
somewhat exceeding the uppermost floret, subobtuse to acute, very 
rigid, flat, glabrous, smooth, 7-9-nerved ; valves ier ee -oblong, 
obtuse or subobtuse, muticous or usually awned, 3-3} lin. long, 
rounded on the back, herbaceous-chartaceous, smooth, 5-nerv ed, tips 
rather broad, hyaline, obscurely 2-toothed ; awn : subterminal, straight, 
rather stout at the pric seaberulous, up to 8 n. long; pales broad, 
keels green, stout; anthers over 1 lin. long; gers elliptic-oblong, 
re srooved i in 2 fee slightly shorter than the pale. . Dan. 
160; Host, Gra P hiatal 1b; 26; Engl. a t. 1124; Knapp, 
eeme Brit. 101 ; wag in Linnea, vii. 304; Fl. Afr. Austr, 364 ; 
‘unth, Enum. i. 437 ; Reichb, Ie. Fl. Germ. i. 4. ri figs 1342- as ; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 340; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl . Afr. 
Coast gee Malmesbury Div. ; near Riebeeks Castle, 500-1000 hey ee 
Cape Div. ; cultivated ground near Muizenberg Vlei, Wolley Dod, 3567! Klem 
OO; 
3474! woods above Newlands Avenue, Wolley Dod, 2131! Stellenbosch Div. ; 
sd pont gaan in cornfields, Ecklon. Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3500 ft., 
1140! 
Crvrar Reeves Calvinia Div.; Onder Bokke Veld near Bok Fontein, 
2500 ft. 
Kata ae maori GriqualandWest, Hay Div. ; near Griqua Town, Burchell, 
1936! Transvaal ; Matebe Valley, Holub / 
Eastern Region: Natal, Buchanan, 50! 
2. L. multifiorum (Lam. Fl. Franc. iii, 621); annual ; culms 
fascicled, geniculate, ascending or erect, 1;-3 tt. long, clabrous, 
Pape ae 
shane on the 
os light green, or tinged ith purple above, 5-nerved, 
smooth ; awn (when present) straight, very tine, 23-4 lin. long, close 
to the short hyaline minutely 2-toothed tip; keels of pales green, 
rested, seabrid ; hers 14-2 lin. long; grain linear-oblong, 
heuiteote. 12 lin. long, deeply channelled in front, adhering to 
valve an nd pale. Kunth, Enum. i. 436; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 5, 
g. 1345; oy Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 340 ; Durand & Schinz, Conep. 
FL Afr. vy 
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