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GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Kalahari Region, Griqualand West ; 

 Orange Free State, Transvaal, Eastern Eegion, Natal ; also in tropical 

 South Africa as far as the Zambesi. 



2. P. leiarthra, Hack, in Vierteljahrs. Naturf. Ges. Zurich, 57 (1912), 



Hft. iii. 

 Ovamboland : Ondonga (Raittanen). 



3. P. squarrosa (Licht) Pilg. in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 46 (1910), 



149. 

 Damaraland : Tsumeb, on red loam and sand (Dinter). 



4. P. tuberculata, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xliii, 92 (1909). 

 Damaraland : Wilhelmsberg near Okahandja, March, Dinter, 



2563 ! 1584 ! 1625 !; Aris, Dinter, 2223 ! ; Reheboth to Aub, Dinter, 

 2223 ! ; one of the dominant grasses at Plattsand, N. of Reheboth ; on 

 quartz gravel on Okongawa Mt. near Ovikokorero ; between Oka- 

 handja and Osona. Very good cattle fodder. 



ii. ERAGROSTIS, F.C. 594; F.T.A. 19. 



1. E. angusta, Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss, ser. II, i, 772. 



Farm Gras ( Heering and Grimme) ! Damaraland : Chairob, in 

 Kamelbaumbusch on stiff loam at Ovikokorero (Dinter) ; in slightly 

 brackish flats, Okahandja (Dinter) ; Okahandja, Dinter, 1618 ! 

 Namaqualand : Tsoachaub, Dinter, 98 ! 



2. E. annulata, Rendle. F.C. 619. 



Ovamboland : grass veld round Andoni, Barnard, 16501 ! Nama- 

 qualand : Kuibis, 1320 m., May, Range, 662 ; near Gibeon, on 

 Kalahari chalk near Elephant River, 1200 m., May, Range, 1436 ; 

 Little Karas Mts., western foothills near Holoog, in sandy river bed, 

 Pearson, 9729 ; Holoog, in bed of Great Fish River, Pearson, 9702 ; 

 sandy stream bed on stony plain 12 km. W. of Sandverhaar, 3200 ft., 

 Pearson, 4621 ; dry stream between Dabaigabis and Grundoorn, 

 Pearson, 3117; sand of stream bed W. of Ganus, Pearson, 4477; 

 among quartzite blocks, Akam River basin, Pearson, 4757 . Damara- 

 land : Karibib, Dinter, 2520 ; Okahandja, Dinter, 2549 ; in Omaheke 

 Island at Otjonzonjati near Okahandja (Dinter). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Kalahari Region. 



3. E. aspera, Nees. Fl. Afr. austr. 408. 

 Damaraland : Tsumeb, Dinter, 2913. 



