618 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). [ Bragrostis. 
panicle erect, very slender, contracted, 2-42 in. long; axis slender, 
smooth or almost so; branches erect, adpressed to the axis, solitary, 
lowest rarely more “than 1 in. ong, usually short and like the 
uppermost part of the panicle racemose from the base, 6—2-spiculate, 
scabrid; pedicels short; hag often distant on the lower 
a close towards the top, 21-4 lin. by 1-14 lin., dark olive- 
green, closely 5-11-flowered ; shaahille subpersistent, Agee very 
short; glumes lanceolate- -oblong, subacute, equal, $— ong or 
the lower shorter, 1-nerved, membranous, keels eee valves 
obliquely oblong, subacute to ‘acute, 1 lin. long, snenbnanors, side- 
nerves prominent, keel scaberulous; pales slightly shorter than the 
valves, keels strong and spinulously ciliate; anthers 2 lin. long. 
E. sarmentosa, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 391 (in part); Drége in 
Linnea, xx. 255. 
Var. B, eo Sr eee ; ger eee nag ee aig ; iinige subgiancous, 
more pad than spik n the te tant and 0 
—— sagen p to ns A "ice a a sates “a il . long ; anthe r 
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2 lin ; grain oblong, 4 lin. by 4 lin., Seetaic-inow, et 
oye sh gnoageh oe Div.; Cape Flats, near ie ee Hoogte, Zeyher, 1839 
Paa the Berg River ome  Paich, Dré . Bt ” Swellendam Div. ; 
eat ate oe the diate Hinde River, Durchell, “76161 C 
Se appears nbees the material at Kew, as well as from the specimens in Drége’s 
Herbar at Liibeck, that tw A species, namely E. sarmentosa and 
gE “elation a have a n distributed — rege as oR. sarmentosa, Nees, var. 
pumila.” rticular spec ee i Bice sem the original number 
1666 is tered i the = a a collection is E. entose. The To eality given 
for 1666 in the Berlin rium is, according ye a kind communication from 
r. H. Harms, ‘‘am grossen "Dergtlies, Sandboden, i, Hihe.” 
30. E. sarmentosa (Trin. Gram, Gen. 398, and in Mém. Acad. 
Pétersb. sér. 6, 1. 398) ; perennial, we cespitose, stoloniferous ; 
culms ascending from a creeping or mbent base, branched below, 
+ to more than 1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, many-noded, internodes 
exserted ; sheaths tight or more or leas loose, striate, very s anos and 
glabrous except at the sometimes earded mout , short, lowest 
od ic ie Pa a fringe of very minute hairs mixed with long 
: blades linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, {-2 i0- 
a 1-1} lin., flat or involute, rigid, glaucous or subglaucous, ’ glabrous 
or with long hairs close above the ligule, finely and closely striate ; 
panicle erect, very narrowly linear, contracted, dense, 1-4 in. long; 
axis slender, smooth or almost so; branches erect, adpressed to the 
axis, solitary, ait up to more than 1 in. long, undivided for sia 
distance, then bearing (like the upper part of the axis) faseicles 5 
shortly pedicelled or subsessile spikelets on short branchlets crowd 
resembling a dense in terrupted or lobed false spike; ultimate o 
sions and pedicels seabrid; spikelets linear, 11-32 lin. by 3-5 6 
greyish-brown r purplish, closely 7- 15-flowered ; rhachilla su 
th, joints very short; glumes unequal, deciduous, —_— 
late-oblong, acute or subaeute, membranous, 1-nerved, uppet anme 
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