588 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Sporobolus. 
Cav. Icon. §& Deser. ii. t. 111; ee Te. Fl. Germ. i. ¢. XXXvi. 
fig. 1487. A. barbata, Pers. Syn. i i. 75. A. littoralis, ‘Lam. Ilustr. 
i. 161. A. virginica, Linn. Sp. Ps 63. Vilfa pungens, Beauv. 
Spec. G ; } ; 
Syn. Pl. rns i. 157. Vi - vw rginicay ge Le.; Trin. Spee. 
GC . Ne 
: 5 m, i. 157; 
Doell in tat Fl. ‘Bra ii. il, 30, vill. oon 1. Vilfa barbata, 
Beauv. lc. V. itor Beauv. lc. ; Steud. le. 162. V. murina, 
Sieb. ex Steud. Le. . Podosemum pungens, Link, Hort. Berol. 
eo) eee oe neem Link. lc. 85. Calotheca satatoos, Steud. in 
Flora, 1829, 488. Phalaris disticha, Forsk. Fl. Aigypt.- -Arab. 17 (?). 
Zoysia pungens, Neesin Linnea, vii. 399. Cr, rypsis maritima, Munro 
ex MacOwan in Cape Monthly Mag. new series, iii. (1871), Suppl. 7 
South AFrica: ge oe. = Boivin! Mund §° Maire! Zeyher! 
Coase gta vio se Green Point, Ecklon! in saline soil near Doorn 
Hoogte and between Ty ger B org snd Simons Ber ore, 100-200 ft., Drege! Muizen- 
Burchell, 4032 | mouth of the Kaan and Kowie Eieir, ‘Wade an, 710! 
RN REGION: a neg N kata iid; in sandy saline plains at the mouth 
of the Sas hiiver, Dré ' 
ASTERN REGION: Natal ; at the mouth of the Umzimkulu River, Dréve! 
coe around Durban Bay, Krauss, 67 ! 
very variable litoral plant of most warm countries. The specimens from 
Polo Division and from Natal are rather different in habit from the western, 
approaching the form common in the Mediterranean region which originally was 
understood under S. pungen 
13. 8. subtilis (Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. t. 124); perennial, 
densely cesspitose, sometimes stoloniferous, erect, 1-1} ft. long, 
puna glabrous, about 4-noded, internodes enclosed or shortly 
xserted ; leaves glabrous, smooth; sheaths very tight, m more or less 
enule at the mouth; ligule a minutely eiliolate rim; blades very 
narrow, setaceously als apg acute, 2-5 in. long, striate ; panicle 
embraced at the base by the uppermost sheath, “ovoid to oblong; 
open, = lax, 2-4 in. tie much ger iggy and 
up to 5 lin. Resi: in the = nae Utila, ; spikelets lanceolate, 
acute, 3 lin. long; rhachilla produced into a fine bristle half as lo 
to almost as long as the floret; glumes subequal, veaegagiin . 
; v 
profile, acute, 1-3 ng, lower I-, w 1—3-nerved; V 
ovate-lanceolate in profile, 2 lin. long, 3-nerved, lateral nerves 
evanescent above the middle; pale as long the valve or very 
slightly longer ; keels very fine, pereurrent or evanescent below the 
subciliolate tips; anthers ms om long; grain oblong, = lin. by 
1-1 lin., subterete, finely stria pericarp adnate to he seed, 
indistinct ; aie not quite 3 $ the length of the grain. Ku i 
Enum. i, 215; Suppl, 171 ; Krauss in Flora, 1846, 118; Duran 
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