ee Oe oe a ee ae 
Ecklon 
near anaticeds: Ecklon! by the railway near Rondeboseb, Wolley Dod, 3344! 
lbagh T 
Sporobolus. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 587 
TH AFRICA: without precise locality, Thunberg! Mund & Maire! 
Zeyher 4497 ! 
ae Div. ; wet rocky places on Table say es and Devils 
acl Ecklon, 941! Drége! Lion Mountain, Dré Devils Mountain, 
* Daiker Vallei below ‘'yger Mountain, etd by the vineyards 
Talbagh Div. ; Tulbagh "Waterfall, Ecklon, Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots 
Holland, Ecklon. a Div.; near Caledon and Genadendal, Ecklon. 
Robertson Div.; Boschjes Veld, "Thom, 1077! Riversdale Div. ; hills near the 
ot ae River, Bur oo seed “aa Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, 
E.S.C enhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Ecklon. Albany 
ae near Gr rahamstown, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 13809! Var. 8: Cape Div.; Devils 
eae in, Ecklon. Knysna Div.; Plettenbergs Bay, Mund & Maire! near 
Mevile, " Guest, 5472! Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Harvey, 101! Port 
Elizabeth Div.; near the Leadmine, Burchell, 4486! Bathurst ae Kasuga 
Rive MacOw 1015! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanag 
R Natal, rrard, 688! Bs Tembu wh Bazeia, 
000 ft , 405! atal, ‘‘all over the ec may Buchanan, 243! ne 
Durban, pSoemnt ge ve ae O01! at the borders of woods near the ire River, 
Krauss, 7 _/ partly ! between the Unzimkulu and Umkomanzi Rivers, 
Also in German East ee and Abyssinia, in the Mascarene ali and St.. 
Helena, and in Australia 
— Indian form of S. indicus is pee anetin with the American 8S. tenacissimus, 
Beauv., which Doell maintains as a distinct species. It has smaller spikelets and 
R. Br ( ot Dura in which 
. 
me 
ndigenous in Africa, is a different diandrous ‘ow the area of which extends 
hen Australia and New Caledonia to China and Jap 
12. 8. pu ngens (Kunth, Rév, Gram. i. 68); perennial; rhizome 
often long creeping, stoloniferous ; stolons emitting fas scicled or 
solitary ascending culms, these 2-12 in. long, alabrous, very many- 
noded, sheathed nearly all along, internodes alternately very short 
margins and bearded at the mouth, smooth ; ligule a ciliolate rim ; 
blades subulate-involute, often pungent, rarely flat towards the base, 
from }~4 in. long, rigid, firm, closely and strongly nerved, clabrous 
or scantily long-hairy above, margins scaberulous ; aaa spike-like, 
cylindric, compact, rarely somewhat loosened, }~3 in. long; —_ 
short, branched from the base, scaberulous ; sociable very short 
Spikelets light to dark olive-green, 1-11 lin. long ; glumes ri Aloe rig 
acute or acuminate, keels acute, scaberulous above, the lower 
equalling 3—* of the upper, the latter as long as the valve or bee 
longer and like it 1-nerved ; oll slightly shorter ; stamens 3; 
anthers 3—] lin, ; ; grain ellipsoid, } lin. long, light brown ; ‘peep 
thin. Kunth, ‘Bren: i. 210; Coss. i Pkt Expl. Seient, Algér. 
n Os. littorults, Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 68; Enum. i, 913 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 821. 8. vinginiou, Kunth, Rev. 
Gram. i. 67; Enum. i. 210; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. ; Durand J 
Schinz, 1c. 824. 8. Matrella, Nees, le. 152 Lunda yi Schinz, le. 
822, ’s. arenarius, Duval-Jouve in Bull. Soe. Bot. France, xvi. 294 ; 
Durand § Schins, le. 818. Agrostis arenaria, Gouan, Il. § Obs. 
Bot. 3, A, pungens, Schreb, Beschreib. Graes. ii. 46, t. 27, fig. 3 ; 
