624 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Fragrostis. 
KAtanari Reeion: Orange Free State; without precise locality, Cooper, 
913! 3337! Transvaal; Klip Drift, by the Vaal Riv vd Nelson, 78* ! Spitzkop 
Goldmine, Wilms, 1720a! Apies Poort, mah 4042 
8s 
nN: Transkei ; betw n Gekan (Geva or Geuu) River and 
Bashee River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége! ise ae near Bazeia, Bawr 9! 
300! Natal; Riet Vlei, , Buchanan, 251! Flats, Buchanan, 
i, 4000-5000 ft. ! 
27! near Durban, Williamson, 59! Coastla nd, Sutherland! throughout Natal, 
bree 865! Inanda, Wood, 993! Mooi Hives, Wood, 4068! Berea, Woo 
934! Van Reenens Pass, bei 7222! 7245, and without precise locality, 
Getehis, 102! 252! Plant, 62! 
37. E. truncata (Hack. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 405); perennial ; 
branched at the base, branches very short, in compact fascicles of 
slightly viscous, 2-3-noded, internodes exserted; sheaths of the 
barren shoots closely imbricate, very short, broad, strongly striate, 
covered more or less with wo ool, persistent, shea ths of culm-leaves 
i smooth ; ligule a dense, very short, woolly 
fringe ; blades of the barren shoots linear, subobtuse, or with a 
callous point, 1-1} in. by 3-12 lin., flat or folded, rigid, usually 
obliquely erect, sometimes spreading and curved, glaucous, smooth 
below, strongly nerve oe ric nese gn above ; neorns 
spreading, up to 1 in. long, divided from the base or from 2-3 Jin. 
above it, filiform, eaytnic scaberulous ; Sains very short ; suis 
lets crowded, more or less secund, strongly compressed, ovate 
oblong, 2-3 lin. by 1- ef lin., 5-12- flowered, pallid or slightly tinged 
with purple ; thachilla flexuous, disarticulating ; glumes subequal, 
oblong in profile, acute, 1 lin. long, somewhat rigidly membranous, 
keel stout and scabrid ; valves very broad, elliptic-oblong in profile, 
truncate, 1 lin. long, finely granular, somewhat r rigidly membranous 
except at the very narrow hyaline margins and a hyaline area along 
the keel, side-nerves strong, prominent, keel slightly rough ; * Lng 
equal to the ane keels acute and scabrid ; anthers 3—2 lin. 
CEN GION; Graaff Reinet Div.; near Wagenpads Berg, on “the 
southern sit Buchel 2834 
O Geawwaiend West, Hay Div.; at the foot of the Asbestos 
eae baten: tks Kloof Village and Witte Water, — ll, 2076! and 
Kimberley Div. ; Dutoits Pan, Tuck ! Philipstown Div.; between ‘‘ Bare Station” 
and ‘‘Gnu Halt,” Burchell, 2687! Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 130! Bechu- 
analand ; stony places near Kachun Fontein, 3900 ft., Marloth, 1023! 
. E. bergiana (Trin. in Bull. Seient. Acad. St. Pétersb. i. 70) + 
pre: branched at the base, branches creeping, and often rooting, 
up to 4 in, long, emitting numerous very short and imbricate curved 
barren each and one flowering culm from near the apex ; flower/ns 
culm geniculate-ascending or suberect, slender, 4-6 in. long, glabrous, 
smooth or viscous, 1-noded, internodes exserted, upper by far the 
longest ; sheaths of the barren branches closely imbricate, very short 
