Eragrostis.] GRAMINEE (Stapf). 615 
Ff Schinz, ae Fl. Afr. v. 881. Poa er Kunth, Rev. 
Gram. ii, 543, t. 186 ; ae i. fet Suppl. 
Eas ; Umpum 2000 ft., Buchanan, 254a! near 
Durban, Williamson, 58! Valle ey of cs: Unie River, art without precise 
locality, Plant, 59! Ger rard, 481! Delagoa Bay, Kuntze, 219! 
Also in tropical Africa and the Mascareue Islands, 
When the eR are very crowded, the lower florets are often more or less 
reduced and ban 
25. E. sclerantha (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 388) ; perennial ; culms 
erect, straight, from an oblique rhizome, up to 1 ft. long, sheathed all 
along or the uppermost internode exsunted, few-noded ; leaves 
crowded at the base ; basal sheaths numerous, woolly-to thertéoee at 
long woe. > to a fine oint, 4-7 i -2 in., ti rigid, 
glabrous or adpressedly ane striate ; See narrow, contracted, 
oblong-cuneate, 23-6 in. long; axis subflexuous, filiform, smooth ; 
branches solitary, sometimes irregularly approximate, lower erect, 
"pper more or less spreading, longest up to 2 in, lon is aed 
e m 
ori 1i in , closely 6 ‘5. flowered, oie. green; rhachilla Dersisiont 
alia unequal, ovate-lanceolate, acute or suba acute, l-nerved, upper 
nes, I lin. long, keels s ees valves cblonglanceoat, ape ee 
—1 lin, long, rather firmly merabranous, side-nerves in- 
conapicuons, keel stout and sexknnle towards the tip ; ont F lin. 
long, keels scabrid ; anthers }—2 lin long. hae Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 
270; Durand & Schinz, Consp. “Fl. Afr. v. 889. 
GioN: King Williamstown Div.; between Yellowwood (Kachu) 
Coast Req 
Sth and Zandplaat, 1000-2000 ft., Drége, 43 28 | 
Katanari ReGion: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5699! 
occupying 4 or more of the culm and long exserted ; leaves crowded at 
the Ms e, more or less = with spreading often tubercle-based 
or not, ‘lowest firm, caeneaks ligule a dense fringe of very 
ss hairs ; blades linear, tapering to a fine often subeallous point, 
in. by 1-2 lin., flat or more or less eee or sor 
particularly in the upper part, rigid, smooth or scaberu 0 
Upper side, obscurely striate above, conspicuously so ay ; panicle 
ovate to oblong, 1-3 in. long, more or less contracted; axis smooth 
and reduced single spikelet, filiform, more ar, 
Scabrid ; poe ae ‘chien puberulous, very short ; tea lap, «pa 
