602 GRAMINE (Stapf). ee 
oe in nee subacute to obtuse, very thin to subhyaline, 
scaberulous, 1-nerved or almost nerveless, margins minutely serrulate, 
lower about 2 lin., upper 3 lin. long ; valves oblong i in profile, rounded 
on the back, closely imbricate with the tips adpressed, ne 
scarcely 1 lin. long, membranous, pallid towards the base, minutely 
scaberulous above the middle, side-nerves faint, sometimes whitish, 
keel obscure below, more distinct and scaberulous near the tip ; pales 
equal to the valves, keels fine and scaberulous ; anthers 3—2 lin. long ; 
grain obovoid- subellipsoid, obtusely quandrangular, over a lin. by 
1 lin., light brown. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i. 271; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. v. 884. 
Var. 6, ampla (Stapf); culm up ~ 3 ft. long, stout, more or less hairy below 
the nodes ; 3 lower sheaths long, compressed and more or less keele d; leaves scantily 
hairy, hairs very fine and spr cap nies up to 8 in. long, setaceous to capillary 
and flexuous.in the upper part; panicle 7 in. by 6 in. 
CEN : Graa : Reinet Div.; in shady places near Graaff ae 
2700 ft, , Bolas, 557! Colesberg Div. ; ; near Colesberg, Shaw, 9! Albert Div. ; 
rocky an and s ony places, Drége. 
rere Region: Griqualand West, Herbert Div.; St. Clair, Douglas, 
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Orpen, 257! Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burchell, "1943/2. Orange Free State 5 
between tent “and Bloemfontein, Buchanan, 280! and ‘without precise . 
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locality, Buchanan, 267! bakege ‘near Lydenberg, Atherstone ! . Var. 
oO i han 
RN Region: Natal, gi ie precise locality, Buchanan, 277! 
5. E. chloromelas (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 271); perennial, very 
densely tufted with closely packed innovation-shoots ; culms erect or 
smooth, usually 2-noded, internodes exserted, uppermost very Jong; 
lower sheaths crowded, very short, firm, adpressedly hairy to tomentose 
at the very base or ruite glabr rous, persistent, upper tight, glabrous, 
or with few fine scattered hairs, long-bear ded at the mouth ; ligule a 
fringe of short hairs; blades very narrow, filiform-convolute, eapillary 
above, flexuous, 3-6 in. long, rarely longer, 1-1 lin. broad when ex- 
panded, somewhat rigid, glaucous, glabrous or seantily hairy, scaberu- 
lous or scabrid on the upper and all over towards the tips, 
inet or Ae glabrous or staan fc with a few fine hairs 
at the axils, longest 11-4 in. long, undivided for }—1 in. from the 
base, then very loosely and at length divaricately branched, smooth, 
or the ultimate divisions scaberulous ; pedicels a gE the lateral 
1-3 lin. long ; spikelets scattered, linear, acute, 2-4 lin. by 3—$ lin. 
loosely 5-13-flowered, dark olive-grey to slate-grey ; “Thachilla sub- 
persistent, then disarticulating very slender, flexuous, smooth, 
almost so, joints up to * lin. long; glumes unequal, seston 
lanceolate to lanceolate- oblong i in profile, thinly acute or subaeute, 
