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“Blade 8 hm or less flaec  Tgules very short ; 
valves obtuse, tips ratty hya (1) Eleusine. 
lades more or less rigid ; eng sa to 24 lin. 
long ; valves usually m inutel y emarg ginate, 
sata Sibi R, minute tooth on each side and 
(2) fusea. 
Spikelets "34 ried red, reddis h; “valves: ‘shortly 
d from sala the tips ; grain terete ... (3) biflora. 
Culms densely fascicled with rous innova ts 
m 2 rong goat distichously leafy all 
along ; blades 4-2 j ong, convolute-subulate, pun- : ; 
gent, very rigid .., aoe a Sar ... (4) paucinervis. 
1. D. Ele corns o- Fl. Afr. Austr. 255); perennial, glabrous ; 
ae tufted, 1-2 ft. long, geniculately ascending, terete, smooth, 
mple or ae below, 3-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths 
tahoe tight and firm, smooth, the lower keeled; ligules membranous, 
very short, tenncate, ‘denticulate, ciliate ; blades linear, tapering to a 
fine point, 4-9 in. by 1-2 lin., more or "less flaccid, scabrid on both 
sides or rather smooth below ; panicle narrow, consisting of 2-8 
erect, distant spikes or spike- like racemes ; rhachis angular, core 
scaberulous or almost aiOUED branches 1-4 in. long, flexuous ; 
)-8-flowered, light green; glumes lanceolate in profile, obtuse or 
subacute, t nd It ie long —— whitish, keel green ; 
valves oblong, i ‘obtuse, entire, 2 lin. long, tips “broad, 
hyaline, a iake finely silky, aad * below the nee : pales 
obtuse ; anthers n ot quite 3 lin, lon g: grain elliptic, flat, 3-2 lin. by 
i lin. Uralepis Eleusine, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 248.  Triodia 
Bleusine, Durand § Schinz, Consp. = “Afr. v. 877. 
_Coasr Reeioy: Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River Poort, 2000 ft., Drege. 
Katanari Reeion: Basuto and ; Leribe, Buchanan r, 23 
Eastern ReGIon: Tembu Bee, between Bashee ror hing gh Morle ey, 1000- 
2000 ft., Drége. Transkei, near the Geka bony cm or Geun) — ver , below 1000 ft., 
Drege! ‘Natal ; banks of Tugela Pie 700 ft., Buchanan, 
2. D. fusea (Beauv. Agrost. 163) ; perennial, glabrous ; culms 
tufted, mae geniculately ascending or erect, 0 nched from 
the lower nodes, 3-5 terete, smooth, 5-4-noded, or many- 
noded when branched, internodes enclosed except the uppermost 
or shortly exserted ; sheaths smooth ost shining or the upper 
rough, the basal whitish, slightly compressed, bluntly keeled ; 
ligules hyaline, oblong, acute, up to 23 lin. long; blades std 
in 
rather rigid, rough on both sides, rarely almost smooth below ; 
Panicle erect, straight or slightly nodding, obovate-oblong to linear, 
Contracted or open; rhachis slender, angular, rough ; ranches 
scattered or 2-3 close together, often more or less flexuous, the 
