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or obliquely erect, subsecund, bearing spikelets from the base or 
ost so, angular, scabrid and finely puberulous, lowest 1_] in. long ; 
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Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 297; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
904, 
Western ReGion: Little Namaqualand; near Henkries, Atherstone, a 
Vanrhynsdorp Div.; at Strand Fontein, near the mouth of the Olifants River, 
Drege! 
Also in Damaraland and tropical Bechuanaland. 
This is evidently very closely allied to D. pungens, Hack. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
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iv, App. iii. 25), from Hererol 
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LITI. ERAGROSTIS, Beauv. 
Spikelets usually strongly laterally compressed, pedicelled in ope? 
or contracted panicles, rarely sessile in simple or compound 8 ikes, 
very rarely articulate on the pedicels; rhachilla disarticulating 
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muticous, membranous to chartaceous, 3-nerved, glabrous, ass 
rarely minutely pubescent ; side-nerves short or almost pn 
Pales equal to the valves or slightly shorter, membranous, 2-keeled, 
distinct ; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain enclos 
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more commonly falling with the deciduous valve, leaving the uit e q 
less persistent pale behind, oblong to obovoid or globose, roun an 
very obtusely triquetrous or quadrangular in cross section ; peti PR 
thin, sometimes slightly swelling or separating ; embryo © en y 
long as the grain (or sometimes longer) ; hilum punctiform, ‘ ; 
Perennial or annual, of very varying habit; blades narrow; ligule meron q 
a fringe of usually minute hairs: panicles lax to effuse or contracted to spixe-"” o q 
or transformed into simple or compound spikes ; spikelets usually more OF 7° 
