Achneria. | GRAMINE# (Stapf). 459 
usually tubercled and viscous; branches 2-nate, filiform, spreading, 
dichotomous from the middle ; pedicels capillary, 1—4 lin. long ; spike- 
lets variegated, narrow-ovate, 1-11 lin. long, somewhat shiny ; glumes 
-nerve acute, smooth; valves slightly shorter, ovate-oblong, 
truncate or minutely 3-dentate, long-hairy to § their length, fai 
7-nerve pales as long as their valves, truncate or obscurely 
2- eeihed. tips ciliolate ; ‘anthers ¢ lin. long. Eriuchne microphylla, 
vees, Fl. ‘Afr. Austr. 277 ; St cud. Syn. Pl, Glum. i. 236. 
Coast gens Pi ple Div. ; Storm Berg Range, in rocky places, 
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4. A. aurea (Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 836); perennial ; 
culms erect, 3-1 ft. long glabrous, 3—4-noded, usually sheathed a 
except the woolly margins, smooth or scabrid, iaomgeeng striate ; 
blades — usually ooneo ute, obtuse, the low er up to 6 in. by 
1; lin., the upper very short , hairy to villous above and along the 
margins, aes prominent and fe ew ; panicle erect, effuse or contracted, 
oblong, 2—4 in. long, purplish ; rhachis compressed, smooth ; branches 
2-nate, erect or suberect, eallous at the base, filiform, smooth, 
branched from the middle or above, the lowest 11-23 in. long; 
mea 15-5 lin. long ; spikelets ovate, 11-14 lin. long, variegated, 
Shining ; glumes subacute, 3-nerved at the base ; ; valves slightly 
shorter than the glumes, ovate, broadly truncate, minutely or 
obscurely 3-dentate, prominently 11-nerved, shortly hairy ais 
the nerves ; pales truncate, tips ciliolate ; anthers 1- 1} lin. long. 
Aira aurea, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 470. Atropsis aurea, oes in 
Linnea, vii. 317 ; Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. 216; Enum, i. 294, 525; 
Suppl. 244. Eriachne aurea, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 276; ‘Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 236. 
Var. 8, virens ns (St apf) ; ied 1 ft. long, ogee Demis subfiliform, 8-9 
pen or up to 6 in to ong ; est bra . long ; spikelets light 
tachne awrea, var. Cian oy ees, Fl. Afr. 1”. 2 76. 
a OAST eoraae Cape Div. ; on the visit of as Sirsa: among shrubs, 
Ecklon » 915! Var. virens: Cape Div. ; eae ne Mountain, Spielhaus ! Worcester 
Div. ; ; Dutoits Kloof, 1000-3000 ft., 
5. A. — (Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. y. 836); 
finely striate; blades very narrow, setaceous or filiform, obtuse, 
=< in. long, glabrous ; panicle erect, oblong, narrow, 1-14 in. long ; 
rhachis filiform to capillary, glabrous ; branches 2-nate, scantily 
branched, 5-2-spiculate, soa erect, the lowest up to } in. long, 
ones acaueehek shiny glumes inea sid colate, 
eee pi Relommc s, yellowish, tips d ark, l-nerved, keels smooth 
or seaberulous ; vabres lanceolate, si heenke (in profile), faintly 5- 
