606 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [Hragrostis. 
tomentose at the base, and, like the following, scantily hairy 
in the upper part, upper glabrous, all striate, beardless ; ligule a 
fringe of minute hairs; blades convolute, filiform, tapering to a 
setaceous point, erect, it ft. long, rigid, or flexuous in the upper 
glabrous, smooth “below, scaberulous on the stout equal nerves 
of te upper pone panicle erect, ovoid or pyramidal, rather stiff, 
open, lax, 5-8 in. by 3-6 in.; axis filiform, terete, smooth ; branches 
more or less in hove of 4-3, horizontally spreading or almost so 
with the tips often nodding, lowest 3-4 in. long, loosely divided 
from 1—3 in. above the base, finely filiform, glabrous, scaberulous 
above ; branchlets pn capillary, 3-5 lin. long (or lowest again 
divided an oe to 9 lin. long), mostly pendulous, ” ultimate divisions 
3-2-spiculate; pedicels 1-2 lin. long; spikelets elustered on the 
branchlets al towards the tips of the branches, light olive-green, 
13-21 lin. by 1 lin., loosely 5-6-flowered ; rhachilla disarticulating ; ; 
glumes subequal or lower somewhat shorter, lanceolate in profile, 
acute, up to more than 1 lin. a very de licate, l-nerv ed or the 
nerves faint ; pales equal to the birch, keels eh seaeralone ; anthers 
@ lin. long ; grain oblong-ellipsoid, 2—% lin. b 1 Jin., light brown. 
EGIoN: Caledon Div.; moist grounds in 7 neighbourhood of 
EGION : Bechuanaland ; between Kosi Fontein and Kneghts 
Fontein, Burchell, 2606! 
Th 
om’s specimen is imperfect and may possibly belong to another species. 
Wilmsii (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted; culms 
geniculate, suberect, simple, about 11 ft. high, smooth, glabrous, 
2-noded, internodes exserted ; lower sheaths ‘compressed, keeled, 
oan striate, glabrous except at the bearded mouth, rather frm, 
ceous except at the base, uppermost tight, terete 5 ; ne a 
fringe of very pan ee blades narrow, linear, lon ng tap 
to a fine point, 6-7 in. by yn 12 lin. when flattened, folded, Fated 
below, with the idbachet involut , or convolute in the upper 
divided from abou: t ig in. above the ae bearded a t th e rgsiles 
branchlets spreading or usually contracted, flexuous, ateapillaty’ to 
capillary, smooth or almost so, the lower again divided, up to 13 in 
long, the others loosely 3-1-spiculate ; pedicels capillary, lateral 
“8 tin. long; spikelets lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, 
13-22 lin. b 33 lin., straw-coloured or light olive-green, 
3—6-flowered ; “thachilla subpersistent, at length disarticulating; 
glumes ——— in = acute to acuminate, thin, 1-nerv 
lower 4—2 lin., upper % lin. long ; valves lanceolate in profile, acute, 
zl lin, long ; ; "keel scaberulous, side-nerves fine, tips hyaline ; pales 
