548 GRAMINED (Stapf). [ Agrostis. 
Eastern Reoton: Natal; Durban Flats, Buchanan! and inland, 2000 ft, 
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HARL Region: Var. 8; Orange Free State, Buchanan, 17! 
io = St. Helena (Burchell, 39!). 
4. A. gery (Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 290); perennial, 
tufted, 2-3 , glabrous; culms erect, 5-6-noded, smooth ; 
leaf- thexthe bot tight, smooth; ligule 3—} lin. long; blades 
narrowly linear, tapering to a fine point, 3-7 in. by 3-1 lin., flat, 
flaccid, minutely asperulous or almost smooth ; panicle erect, spike- 
like, lobed, 4-7 in., branches in distant, very dense, oblong fascicles, 
Med unequal, up to 1) lin. long, branched from the base, or the 
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he base, 4-nerved above ; ealtus sete hairy i in front ; awn straighil 
eperine towards both ends , scabrid, from above the lass, 1 lin. long; 
pale subquadrate, hyaline, denticulate, + 1 in, long; anthers > lin. 
long, apiculate ; grain oblong, dorsally “compressed, grooved, H lin, 
long. 
Eastern Reaion: Natal; Umpumulo, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 159! 
Allied to A. Elliotii (Hack. ) from Madagascar, but differing in having somewhat 
larger spikelets, shorter and broader valve und truncate pale. 
5. A. barbuligera (Stapt) 5 perennial, quite glabrous, eompaetly 
tufted ; culms erect or suberect, and more or less geniculate, § sle nder, 
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base ; lower sheaths subflabellate, 1-2 in. long, finally breaking e 
into fibres, Ba Sen, smooth, striate ; Yigtios searious, oblong 
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lower 2—4 in. long, undivided for 1~2 in. from the base ; brane se 
and pedicels contracted, very fine, the ‘atten 12-3 lin long 
seaberulous ; spikelets more or less tinged with purple, 2 
long ; rhachilla slightly eS continuation $—5 lin. lon = some 
time es 
3 lin. long; awn from near the base, 31-4 lin. long, very fine, some 
what flexuous ; callus small, minutely bearded ; e 13-14 deg Ams | 
glabrous, keels excurrent into very short fine bristles ; anthers 
long; grain linear-oblong, almost 1 lin. long. 
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Coast Reaion : King Williamstown Diy. ; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 2 : 
