Fragrostis. | GRAMINER (Stapf). 621 
eulms geniculate, ascending, branched, } ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 
about 3-noded, internodes shortly (or the uppermost long) exserted ; 
sheaths loose or the uppermost tumid, striate, eglandular, scantily 
bearded at the mouth, otherwise glabrous ; ligule a fringe of 
short hairs; blades linear, tapering to an acute point, 1-2 in. by 
lin., flat or involute, glabrous, smooth, eglandular; panicle 
oblong, dense or almost spike-li e, 11-2 in. long; axis terete, 
smooth ; branches subsolitary, irregularly approximate, short or 
reduced to subsessile fascicles of spikelets ; pedicels very short, all 
the sof pee filiform, smooth or almost so; spikelets ovate- -oblong to 
linear, 2-81 lin. by 1-12 lin. long, light green, 5—15-flowered ; 
long, side-nerves prominent, stron pales persistent, somewhat 
shorter than the eh, keels soubiid : ating ellipsoid, 3-} lin. 
ones se oe oblong, 2 lin. by 2 lin., reddish-brown. Steud. Syn. Pl. 
1,270; Durand © Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 
CENTRAL factor : Aberdeen a eS on the flats and ei the river near 
Camdeboo icicle, oe 
Very closely allied to E. m ek wit rei smooth, eglandular leaves, narrower 
and acute valves, seahey waitin: and oblong, not globose, grains. 
34. E. barbinodis (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 390); annual (2) ; 
culms ascending, geniculate, simple or wit . leafy branches from 
the intermediate nodes, from less than 1 to more than 2 ft, long, 
ctahnd hairy below the nodes, and soendties resinous, 5—6-noded, 
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mouth, otherwise glabrous or beset with very fine often tuberele- 
ased he airs ; ligule a short-ciliate rim; blades linear to lanceolate- 
linear, acute to o pungent, S_4 in, by 2 21 lin., more or less spreading, 
flat or convolute rigid, glaucous, with aeukueewe fine tu tub bercle-based 
spikelets : Yatetel eho short ; sae ht Fined, slightly pence 
3} lin. lon by 3 lin 6-8-flowered, greyish-green ; rhachilla sub- 
lower over 2 lin., upper over #% lin. long, membranous, I-nerved, 
Margins minutely serrulate ; valves oblong, obtuse to subaeute, about 
+ lin, long, a ineren seabed from papilla, mbar 4 along the 
minutely serrulate ; als equalling the valves, Eests seaberulous ; 
“nthers 3-2 lin. long; grain elliptic, slightly compressed from the 
back, 2 lin, long, brown ; pericarp slightly swelling in w 
sat tAMART Reeton: Transvaal; Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5362 ! 
