352 Annals of the So-nth African Museum,. 



E. major, Host. 



Veld and gardens. 13-28 in. high, spikelets greenish-grey. Summer- 

 Autumn. A. Dieterlen, 200 ! 



DISTRIBUTION : Queenstown. Bathurst. Graaff Reiuet. Hanover. 

 Tembuland. Natal. Orange Free State (near Bloemfontein). 

 Transvaal (near Lydenburg). 



SESUTO : Lelwla le letsn la lipt-re. The black weed of the horses. 

 A good grazing grass, much liked by horses and cattle. Said to have 

 been introduced into Basutoland. 



E. brizoides, Nees. 



Veld, mountain slopes and plateau. 5-28 in. high, spikes yellow 

 and reddish-brown. Summer. A. Dieterlen, 183!, 665!; mountain 

 slopes behind the Mission Station, Phillips, 507 ! , slopes of ravine 

 between the Mission Station and Jonathan's Village, Phillips, 565 !, 

 573 ! ; south slopes of Leribe plateau above Khaniane, Phillips, 879 ! ; 

 base of ravine on west slopes of Leribe Plateau, Phillip*, 644 ! ; Van 

 Eeeuen's Pass, 5-6000 ft., December, Wood, 7222, 7245 ; sandy places 

 at the foot of the Wittebergeu, 5000 ft., Drcye. 



DISTRIBUTION : Clanwilliain. Cape. Tulbagh. Paarl. Stellen- 

 boseh. Caledon. Swellendain. Riversdale. Uniondale. Bathurst. 

 Port Elizabeth. Humansdorp. Uiteuhage. Albany. Alexandria. 

 Stockenstroom. Cathcart. Jansenville. Graaff Reinet. Aliwal 

 North. Transkei. Tembuland. Natal. Transvaal (Klipdrift, 

 Spitzkop, Aapie's River). 



SESUTO : La Baroa. The grays of the bushmau. Burnt in culti- 

 vated lands in autumn with the belief that the smoke will hasten the 

 ripening of the corn. Shepherd boys play with it. A grazing grass. 

 In the specimens No. 18o the -spikelets are from '8-1 cm. long and 

 contain many florets; in No. 665 the spikelets are '4-'5 cm. long with 

 few florets ; but mounted on the sheet of No. 183 is a specimen which 

 bears both kinds of spikelets, thus connecting the two extreme forms. 



E. truncata, Hack. 



Basutoland, Leribe, Buchanan, 130. 



DISTRIBUTION : Graaff Reinet. Griqualand West. Bechuanaland. 



E. gummiflua, Nees. 



Veld and mountain slopes. 18-40 in. high, spikelets reddish- 

 yellow. Summer-Autumn. A. Dieterlen, 225 ! ; mountain slopes 

 behind the Mission Station, Phillips, 508 ! ; ravine on west, slopes of 

 Leribe Plateau, Phillips, 696 ! ; near Leribe, Buchanan, 140. 



