740 GRAMINEH (Stapf). | Lolium. 
Coast Reerton: Cape Div. ; Rondebosch Lae Wolley Dod, 3560! culti- 
vated field near the Salt River, "Wolley Dod, 3 
A native of Central Europe and the Mediterranean countries. 
L. rigidum ets Ps Helv. i. 834) var. rottbeellioides 
(Heian ex Boiss. Fl. we 680) ; annual ; culms fascicled or solitary, 
erect or ascending, +— ft ‘long, g clabrous, smooth, sheathed all along 
or nearly so, 2—3- iii « louves. glabrous, amooth s sheaths striate, 
herbaceous, ‘sometimes purplish ; ligules very short, truncate, often 
produced into an obtuse auricle oe one side; blades ‘Hines, tapering 
to an acute point, 21-5 in. by 14-2 lin., flat or involute, rather firm, 
erect or at spreading ee shee or curved, fe to more than 6 in. long, 
the spikelets ; ; ae 4-6 lin. long, 3-5-flowered, very slightly 
gaping when in flower ; rhachilla glabrous, much compressed ; upper 
glume oblong-linear, obtuse or ssubobtuse, slightly exceeding or 
equalling the uppermost floret, very rigid, flat, glabrous, smooth, 
prominently 7-nerved; valves ‘oblong, ae to acute, awnles ss or 
the uppermost finely mucronate, 21 lin. long, flat on the back, sub- 
chartaceous, whitish or light green, smooth, 5-nerved, tip hyaline ; 
keels thinly crested or winged, scaberulous ; anthers 3—% lin. long; 
grain elliptic-oblong, strongly compressed from the back, scarcely 
] Lolium lepturoides, Boiss, Diagn. ser. i. fase. 13, 
L. subulatum, Vis. Fl. Dalm. i. i ae Rottbeellia loliacea, Bory 
§ Ohaub. Fl. Pelop. 9, t. 3, fig. 2. Crypturus loliaceus, Link in 
Linnea, xvii. 387. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; Cape Peninsula, near Maitland Station, Wolley 
Dod, 3324! waste a. near Westerford Bridge, Wolley Dod, 1823! 
The variety is otherwise only known vio py rags A and a few places in 
Levant. It differs from the type mainly in the shorter, stouter growth, 
the relatively longer upper glume, fewer fhoeets and smaller anthers. 
XCIV. LEPTURUS, R. Br. 
Spikelets ngewe pomarne more or less immersed in the hollows 
of the rhac mple, terminal, more or less articulate, iy? 
or ineurved spike thachilla very slender, glabrous. Florets 1 or 2, 
3. pha entlia charlie hing "equa alling the valves, faintly 
2-nerved. Lodicules 2, fleshy below, hyaline above. Stamens 3. 
Ovary glabrous, Coumadin ; styles digtinet, very short; stigmas 
laterally ra rted, plumose. Grain oblong, dorsally more or less 
compressed, free in the unaltered floret arid enclosed with it by the 
hollow of _ rhachis and the glume; hilum linear, rather short; 
embryo shor 
