Elionurus.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 3383 
less compressed below, glabrous, 2~3 noded; leaves paged crowded | 
at the base; lower sheaths compressed, villous at the very base, 
appressedly and usually fugaciously hirsute oo or glabrous except 
near the mouth; upper terete, tight, shorter than the internodes, 
cate, ciliolate with long hairs from behind; blades very narrow, 
linear, acute, generally tightly convolute and filiform, 3-1 ft. b 
about 1 lin., erect, rigid, sulcate, flexuous or curved, glabrous or 
hirsute at the base ; raceme (false spike) 3-6 in. long, rather stout, 
2 lin. long, long and densely villous on the back ; sessile spikelets 
lanceolate, acuminate, 4-5 lin. long; lower glume herbaceous to 
chartaceous, bi-cuspidate, villous to subglabrous on the back, intra- 
carinal nerves about 6, evanescent below keels acute, long an 
densely ciliate, in the lower part with tubercle-based tufts of ‘hairs, 
and with oil-glands nearly all along, callus short, obtuse, hairy ; 
joints; lower glum ‘sik tire or pe Leg one margin " inflexed, the 
other spreading, siacqtiuat nerves 5-6; upper glume 3-5-nerved ; 
cal et as in the sessile spikelet, except the sex. Hack. Androp.in 
DC. M Phan. vi. ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
%. 702, ledlahiae. tenuifolius, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 365. 
Var. thymiodora (Stapf); culms Mei slender, to 1 ft. long — setaceous ; 
racemes Ce, 1} in. long ; spikelets pur , 3-32 lin. long; lower glume shortly 
bifid or 2.toothed and keels beset mg more numerous Aes based tufts of 
hairs in the sessile spikelets ; the rest as in the type, but all parts smaller and with 
fewer or fainter nerves. JE. thymiodorus, Nees, l.c. 95; Hack, lc. 340; Durand 
& Schinz, l.c. 703. Andropogon Leensidetat Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 365. 
Sourn Arrica: without ig ao 2042! 4317! pune 1796 
Coast Region: Uite nhag y hills near e 1 iver, 
Zeyher, 462! Alexandria Di ae Ze ane gs ia, Gill ! as Berg Pag (000- 
3500 ft., Drége ! Albany D Sige oman oe age 2000 f Vae Owan, 
1316! Fort Beaufort pa Kat River, 2500-8 , Drege. Binet 
er 
sto ége. 
Centra Recion: Albert Div., Cooper, 1367! Aliwal North Div.; Witte 
Bergen, moist, rocky places, sates ft., Drege! 
Katanart Region: Orange Free State; ee River, Burke, 200! and 
Draai Fontein, Kehmann, 4491 Se ind ; i Fontein, Burchell, 2581! 
Kuruman, Burchell, — nd between Kosi sour and Knegts Fontein, 
Burchell, 2607! — ; Houtbos i ‘Relomann, 5672! hain Poort, 
Rehmann, 4491! and Chr tina on the Vaal River, Nelson, 65 
EASTERN Bravo : Tembuland ; Bazeia, ‘os ft., — r, aa) Natal ; Umpu- 
mulo, 2500 ft., and “Riet t Vlei, 4000-5000 ft., Buchanan, 161! se Umtentu 
River va Usiinigln fees Drége, and without pr ecive locality, ai cal 
Buchana and, Buchanan, 16la! Var. 8: Uite Div.; Van 
Stadens pe wc jane aoe ft., Zeyher, ye Al bany ag Sean tp 
hear ee MacOwan, 671! Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Mountain 
above the wood zone, Ecklon, 
