620 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Eragrostis. 
32. E. major (Host, Gram. Austr. iv. 14, t. 24) ; annual, tufted ; 
culms geniculate-ascending or suberect, usually stout and branched 
below, 3—2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3-4-no oded, internodes more or 
less exserted ; sheaths loose, strongly striate, keeled in the upper 
by 13-4 lin., flat, more or less flaccid, light green or subglaucous, 
glabrous or very seantily hairy, smooth below, scaberulous above, 
usually glandular along the margins ; panicle oblong to ovate-oblong, 
stiff, 2 to more than 6 in. long, dense or rather lax; axis terete, 
smooth ; branches subsolitary, spreading, stiff or flexuous, lowest up 
to 32 in. long or all short, branched from near the base; lateral pedi- 
cels heh lin. long, all the divisions met angular, scabrid ; 
valves, broad, de scabrid or ciliolate ; tions oblong, about 
4 in. long ; grain globose, pea loose within the turgid valves, 
$-+ lin. in diameter. Stapf in ook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 320. 
E. ‘megastachya, Link, Enum. Hort. aay i. 87; Kunth, Enum. i. 333; 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Cena. 3 4. OL, jig. 1662 . Nees, Fil. Ajr. Aust’. 387 ; 
! . 6, i. 404; 
Glum. i. 263. E. multiflora, ‘Aschers. S Schweinf Beitr Fi. Aethiop. 
299, 310; Durand § Schinz, Cons ig Fil Afr." v. 885; ‘nes in toe 
g : . . 
Deser, Gram. 181; Kunt h, Enum. is doe: A. Rich. Tent. Fl a 
, 42 
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3755 | Transvaal near Lydenbur, 8 Reape oats 
Eastern Region: Tembuland ; in gardens at Bazeia, Baw, 460! Nat 
the i River, 600-1000 ft., Buskoaen, 253! and without precise 
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This ce, probably the plant, enumerated as £, powoides, Beauv ir 4 Lepr : 
= Bu ll. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 26, from Aus, in Great Namaquali 
33. E. procumbens (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 386); annual, tufted 
