ae eee a ee ee sl 
Eragrostis. | GRAMINEA (Stapf). 619 
what longer, up to more than 3 lin. long; valves obliquely ovate- 
oblong in profile, subacute, 3 ‘lin, long, r rather firm, side-nerves 
straight, prominent, keel seaberulous above ; pales about 3 lin. long, 
keels scabrid; stamens 3 ; anthers 3 lin. long, ellipsoid ; grain elliptic- 
ovoid, over 2 ‘lin. long, brown, opaque. Nees in innea, Vii. 330; 
Fl. Afr. Austr, 391; Trin. Gram. Suppl. 70, and in Mém. Acad. 
Pétersb. sér. 6, iv. 71; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 270; Durand § 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 889. ae sarmentosa, Thunb. Prodr. 21; 
Fl. Cap. i. 422; ed. Schult, 113; in Mém. at. Mose. iii. 45, t. 
Steud. in Flora, 1829, 488 ; Kunth ye i. 344. P. racemosa (0, 
Steud. in Flora, l.c., not of Thur 
SourH AFRica : wtthuode precise van cork 1836! 
Coast Reaion: Cape Div.; swampy places at the foot of Devils Mountain, 
Ecklon, 954! in wet places on Table oven and by streamlets between Table 
Mountain and the Lions Head, Ecklon; by the Salt River, Ecklon ; in the san 
of the ‘ee ehe. ” dunes, Ecklon ; oe Flats near Doorn Hoogte, Zeyher, 1938! 
n 
very minute soft gland-ti ipped hairs, glaucous; sheaths with long 
fine Spreading usually tubercle-based hairs, see ree towards the 
bearded nodes, sometimes more or less viscous, striate, the lower 
hairs; blades linear tapering to a fine point, 14-3 in 1-13 lin., 
Spreading, flat or involute, margins aren 3; panicle ovoid 
oblong, erect, rather stiff, 2-4 in. by 14-23 n, lax; axis 
ope 
terete or subangular, striate, scantily re_lisodeliar-pecbosants or glabrous ; ; 
branches solitary or subopposite, spreading, usually stiff, simply 
ene a lowest branchlets 2-spiculate, finely filiform to 
capillary, slightly rough above ; pedicels spreading at ight angles or 
almost so, capillary, 1-32 lin. long, with a viscous ring at the middle; 
aan: scattered, elliptic- oblong to linear, 23-4 lin. by $-1 lin., 
wh r tinged ‘with purple, 7-16-flow ered ; rhaehilla persistent ; 
glu en vce subacut te to obtuse, l-nerved or the lower nerveless, 
Keels scaberulous, lower 1~2 lin., upper about { lin. long; valves 
n 
oO 
ng, 
; grain ellipsoid, almost 
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scabrid ; anthers 2 lin, 
ng 0 
3 lin.by over 1 lin: , hollowed out in poe oe oblon 
Western Rec ton: Lit 
: tle Namaqualand, near Ookiep, Scully 
o Ratan REGION: Getaelalent West, Herbert Div. St. “oka. Douglas, 
