Eragrostis.) GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 607 
and scaberulous ; anthers + lin. 
KALAHARI acces Varies near Pretoria, Wilms, 1713a! 
12. E. shone: (Stapf) ; perennial, compactly a ae culms 
geniculate, su , slender, terete, wiry, not quite ft. long, 
2-noded stints exserted ; sheaths very tight, ath striate, 
distinctly shorter than or almost equal to the valves, keels fine 
long. 
above the oni oie rathe r stiff, scaberulous ; Tanai 
short, simply racemose, 4—l-spicu witht or the lower agai n divide 
divaricate or subsecund and more or less contracted, sialbie cularly 
i pedicels short, scaberulous ; ; spikelets lanceolate 
searcely 1 lin., upper 2 lin. long; valves ovate-laneeolate, subacute 
to acutely acuminate in profile, $2 lin. long, membranous, smoot 
or almost so; pales equal or subequal to “the valves, Ls fine 
and almost smooth ; anthers 2 lin. long. 
Katanari Region: Transvaal ; Heather, Rehmann, 5686! 5695 ! 
13. E. Faas Meade perennial ; culms erect, simple or 
with 1~2 branches fro e upper nodes, over 2 ft. long, wiry, 
glabrous, ae Cass Pade | lowest lengthened, internodes 
about 4 ft. long , like the upper long exserted, with a ring of more 
or less distinct glands below the nodes ; ; sheaths tight, glabrous, 
smooth, substriate, intermediate 1-11 in. long; ligule a fringe of 
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erect, lax, 5-6 in. by 1-14 lin.; axis filiform, smooth ; branches 
Whorled, the lower in whorls of 4-7, obliquely erect or slightly 
Spreading, loosely divided from near the base, longest 1~12 in. long, 
capillary or subcapillary, straw-coloured, smooth, bear ed at the 
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equal to the valves, keels scaberulous and fine ; anthers $ lin. long ; 
Stain pallid, translucent, clon geelliet over + lin. lon ng. 
Katanazr Racion : Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, Abloratons/ 
