Sporobolus. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 585 
like it, but firmer, oblong-ovate, acute, by -nerved ; pale as long as the 
valve; stamens 3; ers about } lin. long, elliptic ; ng 
lenticular, 3 lin. long, very flat with ated edges. 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 820. S. blephariphyllus, nd Rich. Tone, 
Fl. Abyss. ii. 398 ; Durand J Schinz, le. 818. Triachyrium disco- 
gd —— Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 176. T. adoénse, Hochst. ex A. 
Rich, 
CEN sc FGION: Colesberg Div.; between Plettenbergs Beacon and “ Flat 
Station,” Burchell, 2750! Colesberg, Shaw, 7! Aliwal North Div. ; on a rocky 
plateau at Kraai River, 4500 ft., Drége ’ 
Katanaki —— on: Orange Free State; Thaba Unchu, Burke! 
Also in Abyssini 
ae to S. sovslaconastionn Kunth, but distinguished by the lenticular 
grain, &e, 
udwigii ease in Flora, 1846, 118); peal 
he 
obseurely striate ; Teak a line short hai ; blades seh 
subobtuse, the lower 3-6 lin. by - —1 lin., the paheiasaigh rudimentary, 
flat, rigid, often eurled, glabrous, smooth, or minutely puberulous 
be slow; margins cartilaginous, smooth ; panicle erect, ovate, 
1-3 in, b 3-2 j in.; branches 5-— 2-nate or solitary, oblique-erect, 
subcapillary, smooth, branched from the middle, or simp. ch- 
lets 2-4-spiculate ; lateral pedicels very short ; spikelets close, secund, 
dark olive-green, % lin. lo ng; glumes very unequal, obtuse, the 
lower ovate, 1 lin. long, hyaline, nerveless, the upper oblong, 
l-nerved ; valve like the upper glume, but slightly shorter ; pale 
slightly shorter than the valve; stamens . anthers } lin. long. 
Durand & nga eee Fl. Afr. v. 821. Vilfa Ludwigit, Stend. 
Syn. PL. Gum. i, 15 
CENTRAL = sae Reinet Div. ; on stony heights by the Sunday 
River, 1500-2000 ft., Drage! 
Katanart REGION: South-western Transvaal ? , Batlapin Territory, Hes 
ve specimens cited above have been issued pie S. brevifolius, N. ab, 
7. 8. ioclados be Fl. Afr. Austr. 161); perennial; rhizome 
oblique, emer beset with barren shoots and the basal portions of 
dead shoots; culm ni ate-ascending, 1-1} ft. long, glabrous, 
ligule a ciliolate ayn blades linear, tapering to a long fine point, 
3-6 in. by 12 lin. (when expanded), flat or setaceously convolute, 
subglaucous, glabrous, smooth below, scaberulous above ; ; panicle 
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