600 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [Hragrostis. 
over towards the tips, otherwise ere rit panicle open or contracted, 
rect or more or less nodding, 3- n. long ; axis filiform, more or 
ta angular, smooth, at least Coe: branches solitary, unequally 
distant or partly subverticillate, first erect, then more or less spread- 
ing, finely filiform, flexuous, smooth or almost so, glabrous or some- 
times with a few fine hairs at the axils, lower divided from 3-6 lin. 
above the base ; branchlets rather loose, usually contracted, simple or 
the lowest again divided, smooth, rarely the ultimate divisions 
scaberulous ; ‘pedicels unequal, lateral usually short, rarely up to 
2 lin. long; spikelets linear-oblong to oblong, 2-3 lin . by 1 ln, 
loosely 3-6- (rarely to 8- Fistral halts dark olive-grey ; ; rhachilla 
subpersistent, then disarticulating, more or less very minutely hairy ; 
glumes more or less unequal, fate to oblong, acute to subobtuse, 
less, keel i ae scaberulous, upper up to in. long, lower 
slightly shorter ; valves eae in profile, obtuse or sub- 
obtuse, 1 lin. long or slightly longer, membranous, scaberulous 
above the middle, tips usually hyaline and white, side-nerves fine ; 
pales equal to the valves, obtuse, keels fine, smooth or seaberulous 
above; anthers $-1 lin, long; grain subellipsoid, obtusely quadran- 
gular, 1 lin. long, brown; embryo large. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1. 
271 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 882. E. filiformis, Nees 
in Linnea, vil. 3380; Fl. Afr. Austr. 306 ; Trin. Gram. Suppl. 75, 
unb. Prod. 21; Fl. Cap. 420, ed. Schult. 112; in Mém. 
Mose. iii. 44, t.4; Kunth, Enum. i. 345. P. curvula, Schrad. im 
Goett. Gelehrt. Anzeig. 1821, 2073 ; ee in Schult. Mant. ii. 308 ; 
Kunth, lc. P. capensis, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 488. 
AR. 8, conferta (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 398) ; on the whole taller and mo 
robust ; panicle contracted, dense, with ‘te branches more or less verticillate pe 
divided from the base, divisions more often scabrid than in the type; spikelets 
usually crowded, linear to Sains up to 5 lin. long and to 13-flowered, 
light orem to dark olive-grey. 
Van. valida (Stapf); pat te usually robust, tall, 3-4- nodeds ; sheaths 
glabrous aad smooth or more or less hairy ey — tuberele-based ark i 
up to more than 2 ft. by 2-3 lin. ; panicle 4-1 fi ooth 
or scabrid; brane ches 3-6 in. long, parce Pte divided from t the “<a or eigraca 
for as much as 1 in.; spikelets linear to linear-o blong, ema lin. long, 7-18- 
peat erin and valves very slightly larger than in the 
RICA: without precise localit rk berg ! ase 289! 116! 
MacOran, aout Vik 8: eb Zeyher, 1 y; unberg ! Ys 
REGION : Cape Div.; near Canaan, Burch ell, 443! north slopes of 
the Lions Head, Wolley Dod, 3096! Table Mountain, Ecklon 50! 952! Milne, 
246! Devils Peak, Wilms, 3! by the railway h, Wolley od, 
3345! Paar’ ‘aarl Mountains, 1000-2 Drége ! (approaching var 
8). Tulbagh Div.; Piquetberg Road, 400 ft. Schlechter, 7838! Riversdale Div. ; 
eat ter oe = ell, 6632 part é reat Vals River, 
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