Achneria.] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 461 
specimen, and I suspect that his diagnosis was originally drawn up from a 
different plant, probably a true Holcus, whilst the description, hon follows it, 
was added later and drawn from the plant which is now in his herbarium under t the 
name of aed ie sagt This would also explain another tiorepaney, i 
t he @ says “ . glabris” in the diagnosis, but “ glu 
pr in he pkey 
7. A. ampla (Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr 836) 5 
perennial ; ape erect, up to 2 ft long glabrous, many-noded ; leaf- 
sheaths tight, the lower imbricate, glabrous ex sometimes 
ciliate mouth, striate; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, the 
lower up to 10 in. by 1-2 lin. , convolute, glabrous, margins scabrid; 
panicle ereet, usually large, 4-6 in. long and almost as broad 
effuse ; thachis slightly compressed, hangs mete often apne 
anches hairy near the base, branche their length, like the 
fe nehaie filiform to capillary, ideciance: pedicsls flexuous, finely 
capillary, 2-6 lin. long ; spikelets lanceolate-oblong, 13-13 lin. long, 
l-nerved, keels smooth or scaberulous ; valves slightly shorter than 
the glumes, ovate-lanceolate, acute (in profile), sometimes minutely 
3-toothed, long, hairy to 2 2 their length, tips ciliolate, obscurely 3-5- 
nerved ; pales as long as ‘their glumes, or almost so, bifid, tips cilio- 
late ; anthers 1 lin. long; grain 1 lin. long. Azropsis ampla, Nees 
ex Steud. Nomencl..ed. ii. i. 45. Er iachne ampla, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
Austr. ae pie Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 236. 
Coas pe Div.; Table baby eats lower slope above Fernwood, 
Wolley D Dod, 23791 sae Wynberg and Constantia, Burchell, 817! Muizenberg 
Viei, Wolley D d, 2357! marshy spiced near Tokay, Wolley Dod, 2193! ¢ range 
Kloof farm, Wolley Dod, 2326.” Paarl Div. ; Paarl Mountains 1000-2000 fe. in 
wet rocky places, Drége! Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 1000-2000 ft., Drage ! 
Stellenbosch Div. ; Lowrys Pass, 1600 ft., Schlechter, 7212% Humansdorp Div. ; 
the north side of Kromme River, Burchell, 4847 ! 
8. A. setifolia (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted; culms slender, 
erect, 1 to over 1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3— 4-noded, lower inter- 
nodes enclosed ; leaves crowall tcieanda the base, pubescent all over 
or glabrous, often with tubercular glands ; peng tight, conspicuously 
bearded at the mouth, lower very firm, strongly atrinte, persistent ; 
ligule a dense hints of hairs ; blades ihaneialy involute with fine 
Setaceous tips, 3-8 in. long, curve or curled, firm, more or less 
scaberulons, pore panicle open, very lax por broadly ovate or 
contracted and obov: e, 11-22 in. long, often with tubercular glands ; 
ranches 2-nate, Mesto Fe from 3—1-way above the base, the 
longest “2 Ti: long, smooth or tubercled like the filiform axis and 
long, straw-coloured or slightly purplish below, somewhat glistening ; 
glumes equal or almost so, oblong-lanceolate in profile, acute to 
acuminate, 13 Jin. long, finely hairy, faintly 5-7-nerved, tip entire, 
finely 'subulate or ‘$5 dantioalate with a minute mucro, more rarely 
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