Eragrostis. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 617 
2 lin. long, keel scabrid ; valves broadly and obliquely ovate-oblong 
in profile, more or ess obtuse, 1 lin. long, firm, very smooth, 
yellowish below, dull green in the upper pa tt, side- -nerves rather 
inconspicuous in reflected light; pales persisteut, ra ual to the 
valves, rather broad, keels stout and scabrid ; anthers } lin. long 
Katanart Recron: Transvaal; between Elands River and Klippan, 
Rehmann, 5116! 
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Smooth below, densely scaberulous and whitish above 3 panicle 
branches solitary, rather distant, lower up to ong, more or less 
flexuous, filiform, seaberulous, the lowest undivided for 3-1 in. or 
like the rest divided from near the base, their branchlets usually 
Persistent ; glumes subequal, ovate-oblong, acute, up to 1 lin. long, 
I-nerved, deciduous ; valves obliquely oblong, acute to subobtuse, 
3-1} lin. long, side-nerves slender minent, keel scaberulous 
above ; pales deciduous, slightly shorter than the bad keels 
Sochang anthers 2-8 lin. long; grain oblong, $ lin. by 3~—4 lin., 
bro luzoniensis, Steud, Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 266. £. 
Wataweaea Stapf in Hook. f Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 318, not of Nees. 
Poa = pongetie, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 840. 
N Region: sion near ener Williamson, 61! moist egy a 
i: Pinetown, Buchanan, 115! Umpumulo, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 
mont, Wood, 7262! ore without isis locality, Gerrard, 672 ! 
Tropical Africa and throughout tropical Asia, 
29. E. anes i — sas i — not stolo- 
niferous ; culms erect or shortly ase ang from an oblique short 
thizome, cits, or seanaity branched recom Jovi more than 1 oy long, 
oth 
ligule a fringe of v very minute hairs, sometimes mixed with long ones 
at both ends: ; blades linear, tapering to a setaceous point, 13 
More than 1 ft. by 1-2 lin., rigid to flaceid, flat or more Te less 
