458 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Achneria. 
tight, glabrous except the ciliate upper margins or the lowest villous ; 
blades convolute, subulate, 1-11 in. long, obtuse or subacute, very 
rigid, glabrous ; panicle spike-like, compact, rarely interrupted, 1-2} 
in. long; rhachis glabrous; branches, branchlets and pedicels extremely 
short or the lowermost branches up to 1 in. long ; spikelets oblong- 
elliptie, 11-14 lin. long, straw-eoloured or silvery and tinged with green 
and purple, shining, much compressed; glumes acute, 1-nerved, 
keels scabrid ; valves 1-14 lin. long, truncate, slightly erose, hairy 
below the middle, faintly 7-nerved ; pales rather shorter than 
valves, keels ciliate; anthers 1-14 lin. long. A. assimilis, Durand 
§ Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 836. Eriachne Ecklonii, Nees, Fl. 
Afr. Austr. i. 273; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 236. E. assimilts, 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 236. 
Cc Rreion: Cape Div.; Kenilworth, near Capetown, in sandy places, 
Bolus, 7967! Paarl Div.; Klein Drakenstein Mountains. in damp meadows by 
the Berg River, 400 ft., Drege! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. 
2. A. curvifolia (Stapf); perennial, densely eczspitose; culms 
slender, erect or ascending, 3-4 in. long, smooth, glabrous, simple, 
3-4-noded, upper internodes shortly exserted; leaves glabrous, 
smooth; sheaths tight except the tumid uppermost, terete, firm, 
ciliolate near the mouth, lowest persistent; ligule a ciliate mm; 
4-1 their length; pedicels very short, stout; spikelets crowded. 
straw-coloured and tinged with purple, about 14 lin. long; glume 
obliquely ovate to ovate-lanceolate in profile, acute, firmly nar 
taceous, glabrous, shining, l-nerved, keels obscurely scabrid, lower 
searcely 1 lin. long; valves lanceolate in profile, subacuminate, 
mucronulate, 1 lin, long, membranous, glabrous, exvepting @ few 
minute hairs towards the base, faintly 5-nerved; pales slightly 
shorter than the valves, obscurely 2-nerved ; anthers scarcely 3 lin. 
long. Agrostis curvifolia, Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 384. 
Coast Recion: Malmesbury Div. ; Hopefield, Bachmann ! 
is is a typical Achneria. Hackel evidently overlooked the second cage 
: inguish from all Pog species 0} 
8. A. microphylla (Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v- 836) 5 
perennial ; compaetly cxspitose ; culms erect, slender, }—3 ft. long, 
glabrous, smooth, sometimes viscous, 2-noded, uppermost internodé 
long exserted ; leaf-sheaths tight, the lowest imbrieate to 4 lin. long; 
broad, strongly striate, ciliate at the mouth and margins; blades 
lanceolate to linear, acute or subobtuse, up to 6 lin. by 1 lin., the 
uppermost very short, flat or plicate, thick, firm, glabrous, subglaucous ; 
nerves few, strong, close; margins seabrid; panicle erect, up to ou 
long and as much broad or broader, very loose; rhachis glabrous, 
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