a 
Hordeum.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 745 
2 lin. long; grain more or less adhering to the valve and pale, 
oblong, 2 lin, long, semiterete, deeply grooved in front; embryo 
> lin. long ; 3 or barren spikelets similar ‘to the 3, but smaller and 
with the awn exceeded by the glumes. Host, Gram. Austr. i. 26, t. 
a Trin. Ic. Gram. i. t. 3; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
94 3. H. pratense, Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. ii. 56; Engl. Bot. t. 
409 ; 3 Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 352; Kunth, Enum. i 455; Reichb. 
Ie. Fl. Germ. t. ll, fg. 1363; Knapp, Gram. Brit. 105. 
Hl, murinum B, Lin nn. Sp. "Plant. 85. H. capense, Thunb. Prodr. 23 ; 
Fl. Cap, i. 441 ; ed. Schult. 1.119 ; Nees in Linnea, vi. 305, and Fl. 
Afr. Austr. 362 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 456 ; my Syn. Pi. ‘Glum. i, 
353; Durand &§ Schina, Consp. PL. “Afr. ¥ 
Coast Ree ON: Malmesbury Div. ; Saldanha Bay and Zwartland, Thunberg ! 
Cape Div 7 thetiwsel able Mountain and Devils Mountain, Bergius. Paarden 
5! Victoria West Div n Brak Ri 
Itech 30004 4000 ft., Drege. Aliwal North Div. 5 bys Ae Kraai River, Drege! 
Albe a Div. P wilkeat prise locality, Cooper, 
ihe ig em e Namaqualand ; shen Pedros Kloof and Lily 
Footein, 000-4000 
AHARI cbt ncn Free State, Hutton ! 
Temperate regions of the northern hemisphere ; probably introduced into the 
Cape Colon ny. 
2. H. murinum (Linn. Sp. Plant. 85, exel. var. B) annual, tufted ; 
culms erect or usually geben eit nding, 3-1; ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, about 4-noded, sheathe along or some of the internodes 
loosely hairy on both sides; spikes ereet or nodding, 13-3 in. long, 
light green ; thachis fragile, flattened, margins scabrid ; spikelets 
3 So each node te sessile, lateral shortly pedicelled, ¢ or 
tren; glumes of the intermediate spikelet equal, very narrow, lanceo- 
‘wheres produeed into a stiff scabrid awn, 4-5 lin. long (with the 
awn up " 1 in, long), 1-nerved, rigid, scabrid on the back, glabrous or 
airy e inner side en in the argins ca: inous, 
rigidly tae ; valve somewhat distant, lanceolate, compressed from 
the back, subinvolute, about 5 li , her -C 
in. 
long ; pales narrow, keels smooth or almost so, hairy on the upper 
(inne as side, sometimes also on the back above; anthers }-1 lin. 
