604 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Bragrostis. 
7. E. conga eed eee perennial ; culms erect, rather slender, 
firm, simple, 2-3 f , glabrous, smooth, 4- noded, internodes 
long exserted ; dusths "tight, g abrous, striate, lowest compressed 
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minent nerves on the upper side, often reddish ; panicle oblong, erect 
or somewhat flaceid, 8-9 in. long; axis filiform, terete below, or 
more or less angular throughout ; branches in rather distant whorls 
tantly divided fills dh in. above tie base, the longest to more than 
3 in. long; branchlets contracted, very fine and flexuous, 4-]- 
spiculate ; pedicels up to 1 lin one ; spikelets contraeted in brush- 
like fascicles, linear, 7 lin. by % lin., loosely 7-13-flowered, pearl- 
acute or subobtuse, ery delicate, 1-nerved to nerveless, lower } lin. 
long, upper 2 lin. long valves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, 2—% lin. jong, 
membranous except at the hyaline sometimes whitish tips, smooth, 
slightly shining, side-nerves short, fine ; pales subequal to the valves, 
keels fine, scaberulous npreele anthers 1 Jin. long; grain ellipsoid- 
a 4 lin. by + lin., brown. 
ARI REGION: pai Free State; between Kimberley and roi 
tein, re 282! Transvaal ; Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehinann, 5872 
8. E. porosa (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 401) ; annual or subperennial (?), 
tufted ; oe geniculate, simple, or with leafy branches from 
lower nodes about 1 ft. long, eae encase usually with a ring 
= depressed glands below each node, more r less viscous, 3-noded, 
ternodes exserted ; leaves scantily i with eect tail spread- 
ing hairs, or the upper quite glabrous; sheaths striate, smooth, 
bearded a t the mouth ; ligule a fri nee, of ‘short hairs ; blades linear, 
aoe $—% lin. long ; a i echt smooth or sbeebs: 
