322 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). a 
lets crowded, lanceolate, the sessile 2-22 lin, long, enveloped by rigid 
hairs ; lower glume chartaceous, entire, subobtuse, 2-keeled and 4- 
nerved between the keels, which are long ciliate above the middle; 
2 4 . >) 
upper valve very small, ovate, nerveless, tips ciliate ; pale 0; anthe 
1 lin. long ; grain obovoid-globose, + 2 lin. long ; pedicelled spikelets 
similar, but smaller (13-14 lin. long), enveloping hairs more copious ; 
anthers rudimentary, very minute. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fi. 
gs v. te: Eriochrysis pallida, Munro in Harvey, Gen. S. Afr. 
i. 440. 
KataHart Reeion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, near springs, Zeyher, 1793! 
ae 75! 
ERN REGION: Natal; Drakensberg Range, at Coldstream, Rehman, 
6876! Vinpesato, in marshes, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 212! 
III. ERIANTHUS, Miehx. 
Spikelets all alike, 2-nate (one sessile, the other pedicelled, very 
rarely both unequally pedicelled) on the articulate and usual 
ae ; : 
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joint of the rhachis and pedicel. Florets 2; lower reduced to an 
empty valve; upper always ¢. lumes equal, membranous to corla- 
ceous ; lower dorsally flattened, more or less distinctly 2-keeled, 
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Lodicules 2, cuneate. Stamens 2-3. Stigmas usually laterally 
sreeanes ieee oblong to linear-oblong; embryo half the length 
of the gr 
Perennial, erect; blades long, narrow, midrib very stout, ligules membranous 5 
Lance much br: anched, often eee silky and showy; spikelets usually villous, 
with an involuere of hairs fro 
"thine gar about 20, uae ce few temperate. 
Blades not tere 
Blades fat, “13 ft. by 4-6 lin., densely bearded at the 
ide, nd above the short t ligule; rhachis and 
branches of panicle glabrous . (1) capensis. 
Blades convolute or canaliculate, almost reduced ‘to the 
midri pain! 1-2 ft. or more by , glabrous 
bs ate : are pen jas ches base inside ura longate 
io rhachis and branches of ees ahesudat 
NN RCT eis ee, (2) Sorghum. 
Blades patel alld a ee a ee 
