610 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [Fragrostis. 
3-{ lin. long; grain oblong, % lin. lin., reddish-brown. 
Steud. Syn. Pt Glum. 1, 210% Durand gs tiie, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
Austr. 888, 
Ast REGION: wrt Williamstown Div. ; by the Yellowwood River, Drége. 
Queenstown Div. ; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2359 ! 
KALAHARI REGION: aria Wik te; between vaccine and Leribe, 
Buchanan, 216! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Wilms, 1715 
ASTERN gros ranskei ; between ae oo au 2 (Ges or Geuu) River and 
Bashee River, 1 eee ft., as! Natal; Berea, Wood, 5928! 5937! Mooi 
River, Wood, 7320! t Wei, ae MONT | near Durban, Williamson, 54! 
and without precise locality, Buchanan, 244! 
18. E. heteromera (Stapf) ; perennial ; culms ar TIRE 
stout, simple, over 2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3-noded, internodes 
(except the lowest) exserted ; sheaths quite glabrous ccnuek at the 
usually bearded mouth, smooth, more or less coarsely striate, the 
lower not compressed, often purplish ; ligule a dense fringe of minute 
hairs; blades linear, tapering to a long fine point, 6-8 i n. by 13-2 
10--12 in. long ; axis angular, striate or sulcate, 
silewhal aa arranged, in false whorls or 2—4-nate or solitary, 
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lanceolate to ahione. subacute, 1-1 lin. long, hyaline, ]-nerved ; 
valves obliquely oblong, obtuse, %—1 lin. long, keel scabrid and 
prominent like the side-nerves, rigid, almost straight ; ee equal to 
the valves, keels curved and seabrid anthers 2-3 lin. lon porobolus 
fimnbriatus, Nees in Drege, Zwei Pflanzengeog gr. “Docum. 503 (b. only). 
Poa filiformis, Krauss in Flora, 1846, 121, not Thunb. 
EasteRN Recion: Natal ; r Durban, Drége! by the et River, and 
near Pieterwaritabarg, Krauss, "3! ' by the Tugela River, 600-1000 ., Buchanan, 
241! 245a! 
E. biflora (Hack. in Bull, Herb. Boiss. iii. hie ; annual, 
Mee culms erect, or ascending, very slender, 8 in. to almost 2 ft. 
fme point, 2-10 in. by 3-1 lin., flat, very flaccid, green, glabrous of 
seantily hairy, scabrid ; panicle oblong, very loose and open, 4-10 1». 
ong; axis smooth, filifo ranches 3-—2-nate, rarely solitary, 
spreadihg, capillary, abel d Bria loosely divided from near the 
base, lowe ranchlets divided gain, and 3- or more-spiculate ; 
pedicels ae long and fine ; spikelets minute, elliptic to lanceolate, 
