Eragrostis, | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 609 
Kantanari Recion; Carnarvon Div.; at Buffels Bout, Burch-ll, 1606! 
Prieska Div. ; between Modder Fontein and Keikams Poort, Burchell, 1612/11! 
16. E. dura (Stapf); perennial, densely tufted; culms erect or 
suberect, very firm, terete, simple, up to 21 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, 2-noded, internodes exserted, all long; lower sheaths firml 
papery or scarious, striate, perfectly glabrous and smooth, persistent, 
enclosing very slender fugaciously woolly innovation-shoots, upper 
loose, subcoriaceous, very finely striate, separating at length at the 
very base; ligule a fringe of minute hairs; blades narrow, linear, 
tapering to a fine setaceous point, over 2 ft. by 1+ lin. (at the base), 
canaliculate, or almost flat below, rigid, smooth on the back, scaberu- 
lous on the prominent nerves of the upper surface, those of the 
brown, shining ; rhachilla disarticulating ; glumes subequal, ovate- 
oblong, acute to acuminate in profile, about 2 lin, long, firm on the 
Karanart Region: Bechuanaland ; between Kuruman and Matlareen River, 
Burchell, 2190! 
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less exserted ; leaves crowded, and almost flabellate at the hase, 
striate, glabrous; lower sheaths strongly compressed, keeled, pallid ; 
igule a dense fringe of short hairs; blades very narrow, linear, long 
tapering to a setaceous point, tightly folded, flexuous, 3 to more 
than 12 in, long, closely striate, smooth on the lower, scabrid and 
scabrid along the angles, remotely divided from near the base with the 
Brey, loosely 7-15-flowered ; thachilla subpersistent ; glumes very 
Unequal, lanceolate to oblong, acute or obtuse, pallid, 1-nerved, lower 
about + lin. long, u 1 lin. long; valves somewhat spreading, 
obliquely oblong in profile, folded, acute or subacute, 1-14 lin. long, 
kee smooth, like the side-nerves prominent, rigid, almost straight ; 
Pales equal to the valves, keels curved, scaberulous above ; anthers 
VOL. vit, a 
