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less strongly keeled and ribbed; ligule nse hy arg ee 
sented by a row of short colourless hairs ; lamina fl 13 in 
long, ris -1} lines broad at the widest part, lower halt pones 
upper tapering gradually to a long acuminate apex, midrib and 
two other nerves on each shin: prominent beneath, glabrous, with 
erves, the ridges 
the upper surface surmounted by a row of microscopic upwardly 
curved teeth; margin undulate, furnished with teeth similar to 
— on _ leaf, Kern also irregularly shaped tubercles like those 
from ase 
of about 1 line — the shorter ovate. Glumes distichous, 
5-12 pairs, the two lowest smaller than the rest and empty, 
carinate, each half pec with a prominent nerve, truncate, 3-1 line 
long ; the characteristic upwardly curving teeth occur on the upper 
suet ine uding the keel. e shorter and included in the glume, 
falcate, often persistent after the glume has fallen. Seed included 
between the glume and pale, brown, rounded-cubical in shape, 
with a depressed 
Is near some forms ‘of Eragrostis poevides Beauv., from which it 
; = umes, the ccuel ot bical shaped seed 
(oval in @otdes), and the unpolished ap appearance of the more 
linear- saber spikelet let ; is also distinguished at once by the charac- 
teristic annular thickening on the pedicels. 
ab. Ookiep, a teat Scully! 
Triraphis Elliotii Rendle, n. sp.—Culm erect, drooping above, 
about a foot long, simple, terete, smooth, dibioane with 5-7 
prominent nodes. Leaves: grr oh than the internode, 
ones between, glabrous, the overlapping edges mem- 
branous and colourless, internal face smooth and polished 
white ; ligule inconspicuous, forming a short 1 at the of 
a idge mouth 
the sheath; lamina several times the length of the sheath, flat, 
linear for about a third of its length and then tapering gradually 
to a long fine bristly point, the midrib and two 0 principal nerves on 
either side forming slightly prominent equal a ridges, 
with smaller ones between; surfac.: smooth, glabrous. Intiorescence 
sonata ovate in shape, ‘about 2 in. long, reddich. brown: bere | 
paniculate, the shortly- a spikelets Reicha or situated 
axis 
terete, smooth, glabrous, shies ‘of a higher naa ee the pedicels 
of the spikelets with fine upwardly directed colourless teeth, not 
visible with a lens. Spikelets ovate-lanceolate, reddish-brov 
pilose, with 9-10 8 florets arranged alternately on 
which ends in a small reduced barren floret; a tuft of deietig kics 
