Digitaria.) GRAMINE (Stapf). 375 
Ast ReGion ; Uitenhage Div. ; in a i of the eee River, Ecklon. 
King Williamstown sig ; Amatola Mou 8, i chano 
KaLAHARI REGION range Free rast D onctittate Drift on the 
Caledon River, 4000 ft., Ze her, 1790! Burke, 208 | Jackals Fontein, Zeyher, 
1791! Burke, 24! betw een Kimberley and Bloer cies Buchanan, 278! 
Nees describes the lower valve as 5-nerved; his is probably due = an 
oversight, some of the side-nerves being often fon the silky tomentu 
3. D. eriantha (Steud. in Flora, ics 468) ; perennial, densely 
tufted ; rhizome short, deal i ; culms erect or ene e, rather 
shorter than the internodes, the low west more or less _hirsute- 
hyaline between the more or less produced margins of the sheath- 
mouth, 11-4 lin. long; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 1-1 ft 
lon by 1-2 lin., or the lowest so much shorter, flat or with 
the margins revolute, rigid, rarely flaccid, glaucous, glabrous or 
scantily hirsute at the base, margins scabrid above ; racemes 4 to many, 
subdigitate, slender, erect or suberect, 4-8 in. long, strict or flexuous ; 
rhachis very slender, triquetrous, a angles scarcely winged, scabrid, 
internodes up to 1 lin. long, rarely longer ; ; pedicels 2 nate. filiform, 
scabrid, unequal, the longer 1 lin., ravely 12 lin. long ; spikelets 
oblong- or ovate- lanceolate, 11-12 lin long, subadpressed, pale green, 
often silvery ; lower glume membranous, “ovate, acute or obtuse, up 
to + lin. long, nerveless ; upper lanceolate, acute, about 1 lin. long, 
. 
d-nerved, with 4 lines of very fine, usually ad pressed, long silky 
upper subehartaceous, oblong, shortly acuminate, 3-nerved, dull- 
green ; anthers 3 lin, long. -anicum commutatum, Nees in Linnea, 
vii. 274; Fi. Afr. Austr. 25 (excl. most synonyms), not Nees in 
Wight g Arn. Glum. Ind. aes ined. No. 3; Durand & Schinz, 
ae - Afr. v. 743 (in part). 
- B, stolonifera (Stapf) ; ne out long or short rooting runners, 
alae ng slender ; blades 1— ayy eS by —14 lin. ; racemes very slender ; spikelets 
smaller than in the type, 1-14 lin 
SoutH ete without precise ae Drége, 4207! Zeyher, 1792! 
Coast Region : Uitenh age Div.; by the Zw — River, Drége/ between 
Coega Riv ! 
Alexandria Div. ; oe nies near Ado, Ecklon. Bathisek Div.; Port Alfred, 
Hutton ! Albany y places near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 
1290! King Williamstown Div ; Yellow Wood River, 1000— 2000 ft., Drége! 
Queenstown Div.; between Ker Berg we primes River, Drége 
ENTRAL REGION : Prince Albert Div.; Great Zwarte e Bergen, o on cig hills, 
2000-3000 ft., Drége. Somerset Div. ; Blyde River, Burchell, 2982 ff 
Reinet Div.; on stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., Bolus 684! Ecklon. 
Aliwal North Diy. ; between Aliwal North = Kraai River, Drége. 
Karanant REGION : Griqualand West ; y Div., between Griquatown and 
Witte Watter, Burchell, 1974! Pricska: Dis, ; between Modder Fontein and 
