586 G@RAMINE® (Stapf). [ Sporobolus, 
Coast REGION: Uitenhage Div.; Springbok Flats by the Zwartkops River, 
Cextrat REGION: see — Div.; stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 
2600 ft., Bolus, 555! gg = Div.; near Somerset East, Bowker ! Colesbere 
a REGION: Griqualand West, sie piss St. pe tt . Ola 
Orpen, 248! Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burch 43/1 ! 
Town and Witte Water, Bur chell, 1982! 1982/2 r yp Roi Free State, ‘Winbere 
nati as sie ig precise locality, Buchanan, 273! 277! ‘Transvaal ; 
ig do rg, athe ! Natal; Saal Durban, below 500 ft., Drége ! and 
vito pei ca ty, , rard, 602 
ii (Hack. in Engl. Jahr " 401) seems to be a state of bes 
w it phen lunes an nd valves. Hackel’s vlads drsics pte agrees otherwise 
point for point h 8. fimbriatus. S. Marlothii was collected by Marloth, near 
Koo Fontein, ons east of Kuruman, Bechuanaland. 
11. S. indicus (R. Br. Prodr. 170); perennial, tufted; culms 
erect, 2-3 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, usually 2-node below the 
s 
except at the often ciliate margins, smooth, the lowest sometimes 
compressed, short, broad, pallid, “the upper tight ; ete a minutely 
ciliolate rim ; blades linear, long tapering toa : fine point, 4 to almost 
12 in. by 1- 1 lin., usually convolute, glabrous, smooth ; panicle 
erect, spike “like, slender, often interrupted cipal branches — 
gl 
denticulate, about + the length of the spikelet, nerveless, the upper 
ovate- -oblong, acute or psi about > the length of the spikelet, 
sometimes l-nerved; valve anceolate-oblong, acute or acuminate, 
ceded. pale psa shorter; stamens 3; anthers } lin. ns 3 
grain ellipsoid, truncate, quadrangular, slightly compressed, } lin. 
long, brown; pericarp thin. Kunth, Enum. i. 211; Durand § 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 820 (partl y); K. Schum. in Engl. Pf. 
Ost-Afr. C. 107 (partly). S. indicus, var. capensis, Engl. Hoehge- 
birgsfl. Trop. Afr. 127. 8. capensis, Kunth, Enum. i. 212; Hochst. 
S. ruppeliana, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 160. Panicum 
caudatum, Thunb. Prod. 19. Agrostis spicata, Thunb. Prod. 19; 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 106. A. capensis, Willd. Sp. Pl. i. 372. A- 
yey Poir. Encyc. Suppl. i. 254. Vilfa capensis, Beauv. 
16; Trin, Spee. Gram. Ie. t. 56 ; Agrostid. 72 ; Nees in 
ane vii. 293 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. woe i 160. V. phan 
Steud. Le. Vilfa indica, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 162; Baker, F. 
it, 449, 
Var. B, a Stapf) ; usually more shea panicle port - 1} ft. long + 
branches m mg tant, longer, more or less spreading ; spi n secund. 
Ss, i endadaalah, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 155 ot Beawy. 8. aie yas Duran nd & 
Schinz, Cons sp. Fl. Afr. v. 822. ae nolelevee: Steud, Syn, Pl. Glum. i. 154, 
Vilfa capensis, var. lava, Nees 
