Sporobolus. } GRAMINEE (Stapf), 581 
a minutely ciliolate rim; blades ovate or lanceolate to linear, obtuse 
to truncate, the lower 2-6 lin. by }—% lin., flat or folded, very rigid, 
spreading, glaucous, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous above, margins 
cartilaginous, smooth ; panicle erect, ovate, 1-2 in. by —1i in. very 
lax ; branches solitary, obliquely erect, capillary, smooth, branched 
from the middle ; branchlets divaricate, usually simple, 2-4-spiculate; 
pedicels very fine, longer than the spikelets, the latter subseeund, 
purplish, Z lin, long; glumes obtuse, ovate-oblong, the lower equalling 
rather more than 1 of the spikelet, nerveless, hyaline, the upper 
slightly exceeding 1 of the spikelet, 1-nerved ; valve broadly oblong, 
subobtuse in profile, 3-nerved ; pale equalling the valve; stamens 3; 
nthers } lin. long; grain orbicular-elliptic, 3 lin. long, half as thick 
as broad, rounded at the back ; testa mucilaginous. S. brevifolius, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 160; Hack. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 401; 
v. 819. Ehrharta tenella, 
evifolia, Nees in 
Gram. 154, 
ENTRAL ReeGion: Beaufort West Div. ? Beaufort, Zeyher! Graaff Reinet 
2000 ft., Drége ; and without precise locality, 
Div.; Carolus Poort, Burchell, 2756! 
Katanart Rraion: Griqualand West; at Kimberley, in sandy depressions, 
ft., Marloth, 884! Orange Free State ; between Kimberley and Bloem- 
fontein, Buchanan, 286! Bechuanaland; stony plains near Kuruman, 4000 ft., 
Marloth, 1517! 
The plant collected by Marloth at Kimberley is Hackel’s variety major. The 
only difference indicated by the author is in the longer leaves. 
3. S. acinifolius (Stapf) ; perennial, cespitose ; rhizome slender, 
branched, with numerous short n shoots ; culms subasecending, 
q d 
node much longer than 2 of the eulm ; leaves of the n sh 
and those at the base of the culms densely crowded, distichous; lower 
sSheat m, persistent, prominently striate, glabrous, smooth, culm 
f d 
pedicels 3-5 lin, long ; spikelets oblong, light purplish, 3~¢ lin. long; 
glumes subequal, hyaline, broadly oblong or elliptic, obtuse, nerveless, 
the lower equalling 1, the upper % of the spikelet ; valve oblong, 
obtuse, delicate, hyaline above, 3-nerved, all the nerves evanescent 
above the middle ; pale slightly shorter; stamens 3, anthers } lin. 
long ; grain shortly pyriform, * lin. long, light brown, compressed, 
as rounded, pericarp thin; testa not mucilaginous; albumen 
que, 
reagpanant REGIon: Griqualand West, Hay Div. ; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 
