ee ee a ee 
Sporobolus. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 585 
Durban Flats, rar sien 42! i on bare hills at Umpumulo, “es ft. 
cami 297 ! singa and base of Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 92! V . B: 
nskei ; ig Geka u (Geua or Gann) River and Bashee River, Drége. Natal ; 
he da, Rehmann, 8254! Wood, 1578! Zululand, 1000 ft., Buchanan, 300! 
The type also in Nyasaland. 
8. Rehmanni (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 383); perennial ; 
Ba rather robust, geniculate, more or less compressed below, 
2-4 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3—4-noded ; leaf-sheaths rather tight, 
the lower slipping from the culms and rolling » or folding, broad, 
34 lin., flat or almost so, be Seb glabrous or tubercled and hicpih 
primary nerves distant; panicle erect, narrow, Weotshog: g, 1-12 ft. a 
filiform, smou seitle 0 or ghieineie 1-3 in fy Nag loosely and eae 
branched, the lowest sends Sette up to 9 lin. long; antares pedicels 
extremely short; spikelets olive-grey, lanceolate- oblon * to almost 
1 lin. lon ng ; glumes unequal, the lower oblong, slabane, oe 
about 2 the length of the spikelet, the upper lanceolate-oblong, acute, 
about + the length of the spikelet, 1-nerved ; valve like i upper 
glume, but longer ; pale almost equalling the valve; stamens 3; 
anthers 2 Jin, long 
ae ReGion : Transvaal; Bosch Veld, at Kiippan, Rehmann, 5373! 
EASTERN rere on Natal ; Durban Flats, Buchanan nm, 6! at the borders s 
woods near the Umlazi River, Krauss, 7 partly! Tugela River, 600-1C00 
Nuthin, Sei k 246! 
10. S. fimbriatus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 156); perennial, densely 
tufted ; culrid usually geniculate, 2-3 ft. long, smooth, glabrous, 
2-4-node ; sheaths glabrous except the sometimes ciliate or 
the margiris rolled aa sabeats us, aa! with long fine spreading 
hairs near the base, smooth or scaberulous ; panicle erect, subflexuous 
or nodding, 8-12 in. by 1-2 in. (when o pen) ; branches solitary, 
irregularly crowded, 1-3 in. long, flat, at length more or less spreading, 
filiform, repeatedly branched frotn the base, lower secondary beach 
lets up to 9 lin. long, smooth or almost so; lateral pedicels very 
e 
5 gth of the spikelet, the upper as long as 
the valve or slightly longer, 1-nerved ; valve ovate- gence’, acute 
: , 
ong ; pericarp delicate. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 820. 
Vilfa fimbriata, Trin. Agrostid. 47; Stew?. Syn, Pl. Glum., i, 156, 
