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Swellendam Div. ? at Kenko River, mga ard Riet Kuil and Hemilen ae below 
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Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, B.S es - seg onde tag oregearee rani: ; Zuu Veld, Gill! ! 
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Cente ag GION: Prince bert Div. ; near  Klaartrom, on the Great Zwarte 
Bergen 300) Drége ! Su the rland Div. ; ban G 5 
Burchell, gree (both niente = B). oven ie rset Div.; at Biesjes 
Fontein near Loots Kloof, 2800 ft. inte 1610! near * Somers et East, Bowker, 
148! Graaff Reinet Div. ; near Graaff Reinet, 2600 ft., » 555! Coles esberg 
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type) ; Umpumulo, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 248! 249a! very common at Riet Vley, 
4000 ft., Buchanan, 250; without ner ey, sek ae 249! demu 
. Beene ‘the t type). Var. y: Natal; Berea, Wood, 5940! bilgi 
tweed tn enans vee Wood, ce Pieter Uatastog Wood, 7229 
I Orange Free State; without precise locality, Geawad 
Siekoat: near rset Wilins, 1714 
Nees qnot es numerous sae localities, partly essed E. re partly under 
E. curvula, from which I have not seen any specime hey come, however, 
entirely within the area endieated by the rain cited seebis and as I am not 
certain as to the variet y under which I shou oO iene them, I pre- 
ferred omitting them altogether. int sibatineds Paa 
mentioned above, was distribu ted : as Eragrostis capillifolia, Nees. ees deser 
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hairy to villous at the ve ry base, persistent, upper ge ee 
long bearded at the mouth ; ligule a fringe of short 3 blades 
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lous on the upper side ; panicle open, ovoid to oblong, lax, 3-6 in. by 
ie erect, or slightly nodding; axis filiform, smo ooth ; lower 
ae 2-nate or sometimes eicnies or all solitary, unequally 
distant, spreading, at least prong finely surg straight and 
tather rigid or subflexuous, glabrou 
longest 1-21 a long, undivided for 11 in, ea the base, pees 
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loosely and» $ len eth) subdivaricately branched, smooth or t 
ultimate divisions seaberulous; pedicels fine, the lateral rarely 
over 1 lin, long; spikelets linear, acute, 2-4 lin. by } lin., closely 
rie eiuiaatey dark olive-grey; rhachilla subpersistent, then dis- 
