; Brianthus.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 323 
_ 1. E. capensis (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 93, excl. var. ) ; 
to 3 ft. and more long, stout, sheathed nearly all along, etl 
sheaths glabrous or seantily and appressedly hirsute near the margins ; 
ligules about 1 lin. long, rounded; blades broadly linear from a 
_ narrow base, tapering to a long acute point, 1-3 ft. by 4-6 lin., flat, 
_ glabrous; panicle 1-1 ft. long, linear-oblong, usually sheathed at 
the base, much branched ; branches and branchlets subereet, filiform, 
like the rhachis quite glabrous, the lowest 3-4, rarely to 6 in. long; 
racemes obscurely articulate, tough, joints equalling or exceeding the 
spikelets, bearded at the base ; pedicels unequal, one very short, the 
other almost as long as the spikelets, both filiform ; spikelets oblong to 
1 en 2-22 lin, long, pale or reddish-brown, loosely, hairy 
» to din. long; glumes chartaceous, the lower minutely 2- toothed, usually 
: with 9 intracarinal nerves, the upper broadly lanceolate, boat-shaped, 
m [subarute, 3-nerved, ecled ; lower valve neat: about as long as 
a sp. Fl. Afr. v. 
_E. Ecklonii, Nae, rele Krauss in Flora, 1846, 117. Saccharum 
capense and 8. Ecklonit, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1. 408. Miscanthus 
capensis, Anders. in Ofvers. K. Vet. Akad. Férh. Stockh. 1855, 165. 
Var. 6 villosa (Stapf); tops of culms, sheaths and blades, and lower part of 
end rhachis wanes to tomentose or the leaves glabrescent ; spikelets loosely hairy 
SouTH AFRIcA : without — nity 4234 
_ Coast Reeion: Humansdorp Div. ; between Go mtoos River and Melk River, 
Burchell, 4800! and cobb side of the mean River, Burchell, 4868 ! Uitenhage 
Div.; banks of ser tkops Ri iver, an and Zeyher, 621! Albany Div. ; 
acOwan, 1273! im Bothas Hill, MacOwan, 
487! Komgha Bis, + badlicn of Kei Riv rer, Drége ! : 
KaLauari REGION: Griqualand West; Hay Div., at Griquatown, Burchell, 
1901! Herbert wd ,Aa Lower hdaed gina siete 1810! 
| Hast R : Natal; among reeds by the Umlazi wht Krauss, 159! 
feeder of bas ated 1000 ft., Buchanan, onl! Var. B: ; Durban Flat, 
Buchana umulo, ‘common near water, 2000-2500 f 
—— 
| 270! Riet Vlei, 5000 ft., Buchanan, 272! Umsinga and Biggars 
Berg, Buchanan, 103! Ladysmith, Gerrard! and without gone: locality, 
Gerrard, 689 
- E. Sorghum (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 92); culms to 4 ft. and 
more long, rather stout, sheathed nearly all along, pubescent or 
“glabrescent below the nodes ; sheaths appressedly hirsute near the 
margins, bearded at the nodes or ultimately often glabrous ; ligules 
oblong, subacute, up to 3 lin. long; blades narrowly linear, the lower 
from a long, still narrower base, which is sometimes almost reduced 
to the very stout midrib, convolute, or canaliculate, rarely the upper 
flat, all tapering to a long setaceous point; 1-3 ft. or more by 2 a. 
scantily hairy at the base inside, otherwise glabrous ; panicle 
—11 ft., somewhat lax and nodding or contracted and stiff; branches 
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