332 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Trachypogon. 
glume oblong-linear, minutely aerate ciliate near the membranous 
reddish tips, “otherwise more or les airy, nerves 8-11, transversely 
anastomosing, callus 1 lin. Law upper glume lanceolate- linear, 
Acad. Peétersb. sér. vi. ii. 257 ; Nees, Fi. fo ae 100. T. trun- 
catus, Anderss. in Ofvers. K. Vet. Akad. Férh, Stockh. 1857, 49. 
tipa capensis and St. spicata, Thunb, Prod, 19-20; Fl. Cap. € ed. 
Schult. 106-7. Heteropogon truncatus, Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 102. 
ndropogon spicatus and A. truncatus, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 368. 
Coast Region; Riversdale Div.; near the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6680! 
pce iy Div. ; between Kromme River and Krakakamma Mountains, ah on 
t eats nee ! 
: ; Kasuga 
River, MacOwan, 1014! Albany Div.; monntain sides near al ae 
Sz! 
KALAHARI REGION: Orange Free State, ree’ 3389! Transvaal ; Joh: 
Rae, common on open Veld, E.S.C.A. Herd. 312! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5670! 
5671 
hia REGION: Tembuland; Bazeia, gee 318, partly! Natal; Umpu- 
sa) Buchanan, 153! Riet Vlei, 4000-5000 , Buchanan, 154! 155! en 
Wood, 1621! and without precise locality, phe an 125! Gerrard, 476 
Also in Madagascar and on the Congo. 
IX. ELIONURUS, Humb. and Bonpl. 
Spikelets similar, usually awnless, but differing in sex, 2-nate (one 
sla the other pedicelled) on the artinatite fragile” “rhaehis of 
a awned. Vuloes poeta awnless. Pale obsolete or 0. 
cules 2, cuneate. Stamens 3. Stigmas laterally exserted. (rain 
oblong, dorsally compressed ; embryo about i the length of the 
grain. 
Generally — cxspitose, aromatic; blades flat or folded; pect mem- 
ranous, very short; racemes erect, joints strongly compressed, usually villous, 
tips oblique, not pil ged. 
Distrib. Species about 15, in the tropics and the subtropical regions of both 
hemispheres, 
1. E. argenteus Cees Fl. Afr. Austr. 95); densely caspitose ; 
innovation shoots intravaginal ; culms slender, simple, rarely with a 
lateral flowering branch from the upper part, 1-2 ft. long, more oF 
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