Hragrostis, | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 623 
hairs; blades narrow, nee tapering to a fine point, 2-4 in. pion 
to 8 i y 1-1} lin., usually more or less convolute or involute 
rigid, glabrous, “smooth below, seaberulous above, striate ; se 
linear to oblong, contracted, 2-4 in. long, erect or nodding ; axis 
filiform, flexuous, smooth; branches solitary, filiform, angular, 
smooth, racemosely 6—2-spiculate; pedieels very short; spikelets 
crowded or sometimes more distant, ovate to ovate- oblong or sub- 
orbicular, strongly compressed, 2-6 lin. by 11-32 lin., densely 5-40- 
flowered, straw-coloured, usually tinged with dull purple; thaehilla 
long, lower ae valves obliquely elliptie-oblong in profile, 
3-1? lin long, side-nerves prominent, keel adpressedly ciliate ; 
pales subequal to the valves, broad, keels very densely and minutely 
ciliolate ; anthers { lin. long; grain narrowly ee not ike 
1 lin, by 3 2 lin, ; pericarp slightly swelling in water. Nees, F7. Afr. 
Austr, 384 3 Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum., i. °270 ; Durand § Schinz, 
i. 
m. m. 
sér. 6, i. 400. Briza capensis, Thunb. Prodr. 21; Fl. Cap. i. 419; 
ed. Schult. 112 Poa brizoides, Linn. f. Suppl. 110; Kunth, Enum. 
1.327. Megastachya brizoides, Roem. & Schult, Mant, ii. 329. 
SourH Arrica : without 8 hee sire Bergius! Zeyher, 1832! 1833 ! 
Recion: Clanwilliam Div.; by the Olifants baie and at Brack 
ontein, pe Drége, Devils Mountain, 
Ecklon, 959! north slopes of the Lions Head, Wolley Dod, ats ! between Cape- 
n slopes 
near Tokay, Ecklon, Tokay Plantation, W dope Dod, 1965! Cape chap near 
Dod, 2494! Dido Valley, Wolley 1 “+ 3826! Ww t an ad Slang 
Kop, Wolley Dod, 3297! Rail y een Kenilworth and Claremont, Wol 
Dod, 31151 3565! above enpeget cee Wolley Dod, 2951! Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh 
Kloof, Ecklon’! Paarl sandy plains near P erg, Drége tellen 
bosch Diy eo ‘Holland, Ecklon. Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, 
Drége. Swellendam ; on mountain ridges along the lower part of 
Zonder Einde River, Paes 562! Riversdale Div.; between Great Vals River 
and Zoetemelks River ! 
6695! bet he Gau River and the Great Vals River, Burchell, 6504! 
Uniondale D ; between es River and Roode Krantz River, Burchel ! 
Bathurst Dj ; between Blu antz and Kaffir ft Mili Post, Burchell, 
3708! near Port Alfred, Hutton, 44a! Port Elizabeth Div. ; amma, 
Burchell, 4537 ! Humansdor .; near Kromme River, , 365! Uitenhage 
Div.; by th tkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher! between a er River and 
Sunday River, Ke Olifantshoek Mountain n River 
Ecklon ; among shrubs in the oo —_ Range, Ecklon y eee 287 
Albany Div.; between Bushman River and Karega River, Ecklon ; and 
e 
Without precise locality, on al 153! Alexandria Div.; hills near Addo, 
Ecklon! Bathurst Div. ; Port Alfred, 44a! Zwart Hoogte, Burke ! Stocken- 
strom Div.; Winterberg ga near Philipton, Ecklon. Catheart Div. ; ; 
Glencairn, 5000 ft., Galpin, 24194 ! 
ENTRAL REGION: Fansoovill Div. ; hills near Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 3 
Drege, Graaff Reinet Diy. ; mounta an to ops near Graaff Reinet 4500 ft., rp nage tt 
Aliwal North Div. ; lees plains at the foot ‘of the Witte Bergen, 5000 3 
