424 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [Setavia. 
EasTErN REGION: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 296! Wales Riet 
Vlei, 4000 ft., Buchanan, 174! near Cetin. 2000 ft., Wood, 4096 
5. 8. Gerrardii (Stapf) ; A erage thizome short, premorse, 
oblique ; culms erect, 21-3} ft. long ahha below, villous elose 
and long ciliate rim; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a very long, 
ine point, over 1 ft. by 14 2 “Blin. (unfolded), usually folded or involute 
ove, flexuous, glaucous, glabrous, margins cartilaginous, scabrid ; 
panicle spike-like, ylides. ‘dense 12-3 in by 3-4 lin.; axis subvillous ; 
eset reduced to aihenotes elusters of 2 -3 aera or to a single 
spikelet by 1, 7-nerved ; lower floret 7; valve equalling or slightly 
exceeding the upper floret, oblong, 5-nerved, subapiculate ; pale equal 
to the valve ; ; $ floret elliptie- oblong, slightly beaked, 14 lin. long; 
valve very convex, 5-nerved, very finely honey- aoe pallid, some- 
times with a dark spot near the tip ; anthers almost 1 lin, long. 
VaR. Leia ahs (Stapf); panicle more slender, about 4 in. long; bristles 
es 3-4 lin. long; spikelets livid purple ; lower glume shes. _* upper often 
“hh 
Kvn rnd ar. 8: Transvaal, Limyuba River, Nelson, 42*! 
Eas REGION : Reade d; Leribe, Buchanan, 224! Natal; without 
precise Voentiey, Sari, 681! Buchanan, 302 ! 
6. S. pereanis (Hack. in. Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 379); perennial, 
densely exspitose ; culms erect, very slender, 8-16 in. long, slightly 
rm, clos 
sienssig ligule a neracsid ciliolate. im blades erect, a 
single bere pon riarer by a subsessile one-tidéd involucre of 4-6 
above; spikelets oblong, acuminate, apiculate, 1} lin. long, g, pallid, 
glabrous ; glumes membranous, lower broadly “Se acute oF 
subacute, about } as long as the spikelet or slightly longer, 3-nerved, 
upper ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, shorter than a spikelet by 
