418 Annals of the South African Museum. 



9646 ! ; Okahandja, Dinter, 1613 ! Namaqualand : in bed of Great 

 Fish River, Pearson, 9543 ! 



Found in dry stony and sandy places. A moderately good hay and 

 pasture grass. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : South Africa, Kalahari, Eastern Region. 



51. E. trichophora, Coss. et Dur. in Bull, de France. Soc. Bot. ii. 



(1855), 311 (E. papposa, Steud., Norn. ed. ii, i, 564). 

 Damaraland : Voigtsgrund, Otavifontein, Otjitjambi (Heering and 

 Gritmne) and (Schlettwein) , comm. Herb. Hamb. 



52. E. truncata, Hack. F.C. 624. 



Namaqualand : on stony soil at Bullsport, Dinter, 2138 ! Damara- 

 land : in Aristida-steppe near Quartel, Klein Windhuk, Dinter, 2165 !; 

 Otjivero, Dinter, 2732 ! ; A was Mt., Dinter, 1886 ! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Central and Kalahari Regions. 



53. E. viscosa, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb., ser. VI, i (1831), 397. 

 Ovamboland : grass veld round Andoni, Barnard, 16464 ! ; 



Olukonda, Schinz, 636 (Rautanen). Damaraland: Okahandja, 

 Dinter, 134. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Abyssinia and India, tropical Asia. 



iii. DIPLACHNE, F.C. 590 ; F.T.A. 20. 



1. D. fusca, Beauv. F.C. 591. 



Ovamboland : Tamansu, Barnard, 59 ! ; Onambeke, Barnard, 60 ! ; 

 Cunene banks, Barnard, 61 ! ; Andoni, Barnard, 70 ! Damaraland : 

 forming meadows near Namutoni, Dinter, 2293 ; Oukango, Dinter, 

 3369 ! Namaqualand : near Keiap River side, 900 m., April, Range, 

 1320 ! ; near Gibeon, 1200 m., April, Range, 1375 ! ; Central and 

 Eastern Karasberg, in shallow drying pools between Narudas Nord and 

 Krai Kluft (camel path), Pearson, 8489 ! ; rooted among stones in 

 water in Keiap River, Narudas Slid, Pearson, 8488 ! ; Gamkanas, 

 Dinter, 1992 ; Mariental-Orab, Dinter, 2015 ; Leber River near Ses- 

 kamelboom, Dinter, 2051. 



Widely spread throughout the warm regions of the Old World, 

 mainlv near water. 



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GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Coast, Central, Western, and Kalahari 

 Regions. 



2. D. Fleckii, Hack. Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv, App. iii, 25. 

 Namaqualand : Reheboth, Fleck. 



