Eragrostis. | GRAMINEX (Stapf), 613 
da ser rh 3 without precise locality, Mund § Maire! Mossel Bay ee 
y the Gauritz Ri ited) Ecklon ; in the dry channel of an arm of the Gauri 
ives, Burchet, aie 
CenteaL ReEcIon: Calvinia Div.; Bokke Veld and Hantam, Thunbe 
pe Div: hemes Little Doorn River and Great Doorn River, Burchell, 
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WESTERN Reeton: Little Namaqualand; by the eo (Kousies) River, 
Ecklon ry baie r, 1836! between Kook Fontein and Holgat River, covering 
vast tracts, Drége |! ! plains fis ‘tween Kosies ia and Wineie Drége, 2539 ! 
dunes at the mouth of the Urange River, Dré 
he rhachilla - the spikelets is rather fragile; at the sé time, the valves 
separate easily at the base whilst the ales remain attached to the spin 
joints. The whole ba break up iss ve readily, leaving the glu 
or, as the sy are also more or les ss dec sna the esis ‘t recurved pedi cels. This i is 
22. E. patentissima (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 391); 
perennial ; culms tufted, shortly ascending, subcompressed, 3-1 ft. 
long, gl abrous, smooth, few -noded, sheathed d almost to the base of the 
end: sheaths lax, particularly the lower, glabrous except at the 
scantily bearded mouth, striate ; ligule a ciliolate rim ; blades linear 
to lanceolate- ea tapering almost from the e to a fine point, 
2-3 in. long, x, 1-2 2 lin. wide - - e shut flat or base more or less 
length of the tk. obliquely erect, divided from near the base ; 
branchlets long divaricate, 2-1- =e culate, filiform to subcapillary, 
angular, scabrid; pedicels 2-1 i . long ; spikelets oblong, com- 
pressed, 3-4 lin. ‘by 1i—1+ ln, 6-9- @ oah | light green, tinged with 
purple ; rhachilla persistent, smooth ; glumes subequal, lanceolate 
im profile, acuminate, almost 14 lin. long, herbaceous-membranous, 
l-nerved : 3 valves ee mi in profile, acuminate, 1+ lin. long, 
mly membranous; lateral nerves somewhat pro ominent, keels 
Seovenatous ; pales somewhat shorter than the glumes, strongly 
tved, keels stout and spinulously ciliolate ; anthers 2 lin. long. 
Katanarr ReGion: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5684. 
oe Reeion: Natal; hill tops at Umpumulo, 2700-2800 ft., Buchanan, 
. E. denudata (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 392) ; perennial, 
tufted ; i erect, simple, og slender, 1—2 ft. long, smooth, 
— hoded, upperm most interno very long and long exserted ; 
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except for a few ron hairs at the mouth, lowest short, pena 
Strlate, persistent, tomentose at the broader base 
at length gabrstent gels a hoe ciliate rim ; blades taewe, 
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rather figid, eh pie or with few scattered fine hairs on the 
margins, closely ob margins scaberulous ; panicle erect, linear- 
