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Lepturus.] GRAMINE& (Stapf). 741 
Small, annual or creeping perennial see: blades flat or ree fata 
membranous, short ; spik slender, more or less cylindric, straight urved, 
disarticulating when spe or almost tolaghs lower glume sp radian wane 
flowering, then adpressed 
Species 3, in the warm coast regions of the Old World. 
1. L. cylindricus (Trin. Fund. Agrost. 123); annual, 1-1 ft. 
high ; eulms fascicled and branched or simple, geniculate, ascending 
or suberect, glabrous, smooth, 3-5- (rarely more- noded, usually 
sheathed all along or intermediate internodes shortly exserted ; leaves 
glabrous; sheaths smooth, pont tight; ligules very short, hyaline, 
truncate, aap slightly p uced on one side; lades narrow, 
linear, tapering to a fine point, 2-6 in in, by 1 lin., flat or involute, soft 
or somewhat rigid, finely or obscurely seaberulous above and along 
the margins ; spike slender, cylindric, erect, straight or slightly curved, 
2-8 in. long; rhachis dull green, slight] — smooth, subar- 
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spikelets pieced i to each jo sii or plage ai 28 badass 
always longer than the joint, 2-32 lin. long, 1-flowered ; lower glume 
0; upper laneeolate-linear, very ‘acute, thick, very hard, sare 
5-7-nerved, smooth; valve lanceolate-oblong, aeute, 2-9 2 lin. long, 
hyaline, 3-nerv ed ; le delicately 2-nerved, hyaline, minutely 
2-toothed ; anthers linear, about 1 lin. loug; grain oblong, elliptic 
in cross section or semiterete, 12 lin. long. Webb § Berth. His f 
Nat. Canar. iii. iii, 424. ZL. subulatus, Kunth, Rév. Gram 
151; Enum. i. 462; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. B57. Kotthollia 
cylindrica, Willd. Sp. Plant. i.464 (in part). R. emery Savi, ae 
Cent. 35, and in Nuovo Giorn. Pis. 1806, 230, figs. 4and 8. Moner 
subulata, Nees in Linnea, vii. 280; Fl. Afr. Austr. 136; and en. 
1. ¢.88; Durand § Schina, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 9381. Df. ‘cylindrica, 
tc. Ophiurus cylindricus, Beauv. 
li, 171. 0. subulatus, Link, bc. i. 3; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 3, 
Jig. 1335. 
Coast Region: Cape Div.; stony places on Table oh A aloes i a 
pe nernet Hrg Wolley D , 2244! common about oo . 
4 A near Tulbagh Waterfall, Zeyher ! Uniondal iv. ; 
Mountains, near Avontuur, Bales F ihe sae aioe Div. ; by ie ig Pnrore: 
River, near Uitenhage, Drége/ near Uite nder 
ar in the Mediterranean countries ; tuna in Australia and North 
Amer 
XCV. OROPETIUM, Trin. 
Spikelets sessile, solitary, more or less immersed in the hollows of 
the rhachis of a ‘simple distichous terminal spike; rhachilla very 
slender, glabrous, disarticulating above the glumes and between the 
valves. Flor ge or uppermost rudimentary, shorter than the 
upper glume. terminal spikelet equal and similar, lower 
glume of the "sts spikelets suppressed or (if present) more or less 
