622 GRAMINER (Stapf). [Pragrostis. 
35. E. superba (Peyr. in Sitz. Ber. Acad. Wien, Math.-Nat. Cl. 
: ly cxspitose with intravaginal inno- 
vations, glabrous ; eulms erect or geniculately ascending, 2-3 ft. long, 
rather stout, smooth, 2-noded, internodes exserted, uppermost very 
long ; sheaths smooth, bearded at the mouth, lowest crowded, broad 
at the base, keeled, persistent, upper terete, tight ; ligule a fringe of 
short hairs ; blades linear, long tapering to an acute poin t, 2— 8 in. 
or more by 1-3 lin., firm, more or less rigid, upper often ete 
usually more or less involute or convolute, rarely quite flat, smooth 
below, scaberulous on the upper side; panicle narrow, linear or 
oblong, often interrupted below, erect, 4-10 in. long; axis usually 
straight, smooth, terete below, angular above ; branches distant, erect 
or suberect, solitary, 
1- -10-spiculate, che 
4-3 lin. long ; Sue ae articulated with the pedicels, deciduous, 
rather distant or cluste owards the tips of the branches or 
branchlets, strongly compressed from the side, suborbicular, ovate or 
ovate-oblong, 3-8 lin. by 23-42 lin,, straw-coloured, rarely more OF 
lanceolate in profile, acute or mucronate, 11-22 lin. long, 1-nerved, 
firmly eae strongly keeled ; valves obliquely oblong, sub- 
acute, 13-28 
prominent and ites green ; pales 2-fid, keels winged, wings narrowed 
upwards, produced into obtuse auricles at the base, ciliolate; anthers 
1 lin, long ; grain oblong, 1 lin. long; pericarp loose ; seed truncate 
at both ends, subquadrangular, rown. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xi. 405; Durand & tape Consp. Fl. Afr. 890 ; Hack. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. i iv. App. iii. 27. EH. elata, Munro ex Ficalho & Hiern 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. "9, ii. 32; Durand § Schinz, l.c. 883. 
ilies sagen without — rane pe tp 1834 
1 Reeion: Ho e Orange “Riv ver at ‘* Amaryllis 
e l 
, Tuck, 13! Orange kev Nesrgre O 
Caledon Rives, _ 2p eg and without a locality, H’ 
n d Kosi Ponti, Burchell, ene ! Transvaal ; Bosch Veld, 
cre ‘River and Klip stole 5115 ! plains near Rustenburg, 
ar Lydenburg, gf pani ! Bee coe Ot E.S.C.A. Herb. 
gat — witht precise locality, McLea, 111! 
East 
Wood 3587 ! beaks ‘of the T Tugela River, Buchanan, 255! a 
locality, Gerrard, 468! Zululand, Wood, 7307 ! De elagoa Bay, vor 
Also in tropical Africa. 
ey p 
E. brizoides (Nees in Linnea, vii, 328); perennial, compactly 
tufted with intravaginal innovation- shoots ; culms erect or geniculate- 
ascending, slender, “firm, from 4 3 to more than 2 ft. long, Deeb 
smooth, 1-3- noded, intern 
the length of the culm; sheaths tight, ‘glabrous except the 
mouth, lowest atts crowded, persistent ; 
RuGIon: Natal ; Weenen County, 5000 ft., Wood, a6! at 3500 ft., 
mi ri 
ge 
ligule a fringe of minute 
