608 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Hragrostis. 
389) 
perennial, densely tufted ; culms ascending or erect, simple, slender 
1-11 ft. rin 
lands below the nodes, terete, 3-5-noded, internodes exserted ; 
sheaths tight, glabrous exeept at the often scantily bearded 
mouth, striate, lower usually short; ligule a fringe of short hairs ; 
blades very narrow, linear, tapering to a setaceous point, flexuous, 
3-5 in, i b 
by i lin., rather soft, glabrous, smooth on the ack, 
2-6 in. by 1-2 in., lax, shortly exserted from or enclosed at the 
verticillate, obliquely spreading, subeapillary to capillary, glabrous or 
scaberulous, at least in the upper part, the longest 1-2 (rarely to 3) in. 
long, loosely and repeatedly divided from 2-4 lin. above the base ; 
acute or subacute, delicate, smooth except on the scaberulous keels, 
the lower sometimes nerveless, 3 lin. long or scareely so, upper 
2 lin. long; valves narrow-oblong to oblong-lanceolate in profile, 
subobtuse, 3 lin. long, membranous, smooth, except near the tips, 
side-nerves faint, short; pales more or less equal to the valves, keels 
smooth or scaberulous ; anthers 2 lin. long. 
Katanart Reeion: Orange Free State; near Draai Fontein, Rehmann, 
3645! Basutoland; near Leribe, Buchanan, 126! 
15. E. Burchellii (Stapf); perennial, tufted ; culms ereet or ascend- 
ing, firm, slender, branched from the lower and intermediate nodes, 
the upper part, the longest 3-2 in. long; lowest branchlets again 
divided, or like the rest simple, 4~1-spiculate, spreading or adpresset, 
all divisions yellowish ; pedicels short ; spikelets scattered, lanceolate 
to oblong, 1-2 lin. long, dark olive-grey, 2—-4-flowered ; rhac 
disarticulating ; glumes lanceolate, subequal in profile, delicate, finely 
l-nerved -or nerveless, lower about + lin., upper 2 lin. long ; valves 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, $$ lin. long, very thin, smooth or scaberulous 
towards the margins, keel smooth, side-nerves faint ; pales equat ° 
the valves, keels fine, almost smooth; anthers 2—} lin. long; st” 
obovoid-ellipsoid, } lin. by 4-2 lin. 
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