324 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Frianthus. 
and branchlets flexuous or strict and erect, filiform, the low 
3-4 in. long, primary branches like the rhachis, pubescent at “i 
spikelets lanceolate to oblong, 2—3 lin. ee usually densely hairy ; 
otherwise — like those of E. capensis, Nees. Hack. Androp. 
a nogr. Phan. vi. 148 ; toa & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
95. @. capensis, var. anguatfolins, Nees, lie. 94. Saccharum 
Sorghum, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
SoutH AFRICA: without locality, Drége, 3876 
Coast Rrea@ton: Tulbagh Div.; near New Kloof on the Klein ia River, 
CENTRAL REGION: Graaff Reinet Sneeuw Berg R 00-500 
Drége! Bolus, 285! and on the bole of Sunday River, whoa Graaff Reinet, 
2500 ft , Bolus 285 ! 
Katanart ReGion: Orange Free State; sanddrift Spruit, Burke, 229! 
Eastern Recion; Tembuland; Bazeia Mountain, Baur, 100! 
3. E. junceus (Stapf); culms rather stout, over 3 ft. long, 
sheathed all along or nearly so, glabrous; sheaths glabrous, firm, with 
a broad scarious margin near the mouth, continuing along ‘the base of 
the blade ; ligule short, -sicome blades arash ‘solid, tapering to a 
chartaceous; awn 2-2} lin. long, fine; otherwise very like those 
of the 2 preceding species. 
KatanaArt Re@ton: Basutoland ; Leribe, Buchanan, — Transvaal ; Oli- 
fants River, Nelson, 73%! Jungle streamlet, Nelson, 77* 
IV. POLLINIA, Trin. 
Spikelets all alike or nearly so, 2-nate (one oye the other 
pedicelled, very rarely both shesalts pedicelled), on the articulate 
— sia igceirs thachis of 2-nate, digitate or fascicled, spikelike 
duced to an empty valve; upper always lumes equal, mem- 
branous to coriaceous; lower dorsally flattened or concave, more 
or less 2-keeled with inflexed margins; upper 1-3-nerved, 
keeled. Valves hyaline; lower muticous, sometimes suppressed ; 
es very short, 2-lobed or entire, generally awned. Pale small 
. Lodi ‘cules 2, small, cuneate. Stamens 3, rarely fewer. 
