612 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Hragrostis. 
SoutH AFrRiIca : without — locality, — Harvey, 332! Drége, 2540! 
ovau Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Lamberts Bay, Schlechter, 8546! Cape 
Div. ; in dunes anf loose bere near Capetown, Thuinbs erg! Green Point, Ecklon ; 
Table Bay and Paarden Island, Drége! sand hills of Paarden espe yom 
od, 3181! in sand at the mouth of Eerste River, False Bay, MacOwa Herb, 
ERN REGION: Great Namaqualand ; Nautilus Point near Angra Pequena 
(ex Hackel). Little Namaqualand; near the mouth of the Orange River, 
below 600 ft., Drége! 
Also in tropical German South-West Africa. 
In some of the spikelets of Harvey’s specimen I —— that the valves are 
much broader than usual, and have 1-2 additional side-ne 
am spinosa soe in Gram. Gen, 416, and in Mém. Acad. 
Péterb, sér. 6, 1. 416); perennial, creeping with a long slender 
woody rhizome or scares: branching near the surface of the soil and 
above it ; culms fascicled, sheathed at is base, stout, hard, terete or 
compressed, 1-5 in long (to the base of the panicle), glabrous, 
smooth, node-less above the base, overtopped by the cosine r more 
or less ‘exserted from them ; sheaths otal phn to scarious, Loe 
increasing upwards, from a few lines to 12 in 1 Jin., usually 
very hard and rigid, spreading, glabrous and smooth below, minutely 
papillose on the upper side; panicle oblong, narrow, very mrigit, 
open, about 3 ft. long; axis not differentiated from the culm, ending 
transverse ridges between them, glaucous; branches solitary, distant 
or some eubop posite, horizontally spreading, very rigid, pungent, 
from a few lines to 2 in. long, somewhat compressed or quite a 
and up to 1 lin. broad, smooth, glabrous, glaucous, simply racemos 
hin 1-9- cl et or with very short spinous 1-spicula ulate eancNiell 
n the lower part; pedicels sliform, smooth, 1 lin. long; a pear 
pe ey nf linear, acute, 3-9 lin. long by 11-2 lin., pallid, some- 
times tinged with purple, deflexed, radi 3-18-flowered ; rhachilla 
isarticulating, smooth or almost so; glumes subequal, lanceolate, 
acute or subobtuse in profile, about 1 lin. long hyaline, 1-nerved ; 
firmly membranous, finely scaberulous ; side-nerves almost percurrent, 
almost straight, subprominent, keel scaberulous; pales equal to the 
valves ; keels strong, seaberulous; os 1 Vir: long. Nees, L 
Afr. Austr. 382; Steud. Syn. Pl Glum. i. 270 ; Hack, in Engl. 
Jahrb. xi. 406; Durand Schinz, Consp. Fl Afr. v. 889. Festuca 
spinosa, Linn. f. Suppl. 111. Poa spinosa, Thunb. prod. 23; 
Cap. i. 425; ed. Schult. 114; Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. 551, ¢. 
Meares 334 ; Suppl. 289. 
Coast Raivitids yout nsd a Olifants River: 
400-800 ft., Drége! Olanwilien oe ‘ans es Ee 6. tklechtel: 80 
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