466 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [Anthoaanthum. 
Species 15, belonging to 2 sections: (1) Ev- rsa atie with 6 species 
(4 in the West Mediterranean countries, 1 indigenous in Europe and North-West 
Asia, but introduced into many parts of the world, and 1 in pote Africa), and 
) Ataxia, with 9 s ($i th Africa, 5 in tropical 5 
Mexico). The section Atawia is characterized by the lowermost valve exceeding, 
at least equalling, the subtending lower glume, and by having us a 
flower either in er thes r only in the lowe t floret 
peste loa, ie w an species of Anthoranthum have been 
Panicle eee culms 
Spikelets very pallid, i iin ‘wags glumes very nearly a 
Tipaliei lower 1-nerved (1) Ecklonii. 
gine greener, 3 lin. long ; glumes herbaceous 
ween the pagan lower 3-nerv . (2) dregeanum. 
Panicle small, oblong, contracted or reduced to a 2 seanty 
raceme ; culms and ee very weak, fine .. (3) Tongo. 
1. A. Ecklonii (Stapf) ; rang. culms tufted, erect, simple, 
1-3 ft. long, smooth, glabrous or scaberulous, finely striate, about 
3-noded ; internodes ieenally longer from the base, up to 1 ft. or 
more long; sheaths rather tight, smooth or scabrid, rarely 
reversedly hispidulous, striate, usually very much_ shorter than 
ligules scarious, white, ovate, obtuse, 1-2 lin. long; blades ar, 
gradually tapering, acute, up to 3 in. by 1-12 lin., the upper ve 
short, rather rigid, glabrous, smooth or scabrid, enor sea 
ome Bx 31 4 lin. on pallid ; ae lanceo late to ovate- 
lanceolate (in profile), acuminate, scaberulous on the keels, lower 
21-3 lin. long, l-nerved, hyaline, upper 31-4 lin. long, 3- (very 
rarely 1- -) nerved, ae sa lowest floret gS or barren: valve about 
23 1 lin. long, 5-nerved, with a short straight awn from above the 
always empty, with a kneed awn 4 lin. long 
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middle ; ; uppermost floret 3, 1-14 lin. long ; valve 5-nerved ; anthers 
+14 lin. long ; grain Z iin. pe Anthozanthum odoratum, Kunth 
in An nn. Se. Nat. sr. i, xiii. 294 (not Linn.). Ataxia Ecklonis, 
Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 31; Sised. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 13. Hierate™ 
pao Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 7 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. 
v. 
Coast Reaion: Stockenstrom ~ Kat , 4000-5000 ft., in wet places, 
Drege! peas ae Div.; by th e Klippl eg River at Shiloh, "Ecklon. King 
Williamstown Div. ; Amatola Mountains, Bucha nan, 47! 
HAsTERN Recion: Natal; Riet Vlei , 4000-5000 ft., Buchanan, 158! 
A very closely allied species oceurs in Madagascar. 
. A. dregeanum (Stapf); perennial; rhizome slender, short ; 
culms erect or ascending, simple, slender. , 13-23 ft. long, glabrous, 
finely striate, about 3-noded, uppermost i nternode longest, up 
1 ft. or more long; sheaths tight or the lower ultimately spreading, 
