Hragrostis.| GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 625 
and broad, strongly striate, covered with a partly fugacious wool 
towards the base ; sheaths of the flowering eulms very tight, glabrous, 
smooth; ligule a dense very short woolly fringe ; blades of the 
barren Diainches linear, obtuse, 2-4 lin. by 1—5 lin., flat or — 
very rigid, spreading and soniewhat curved, glaucous, smooth 
strongly nerved and densely scabrid above; culm-blades 3-12 in. by 
lin., less rigid ; panicle ovoid or oblong, erect, usually dense, 
1-2 in. long ; xis slender, angular, smooth or ec aie rough ; 
branches solitary, obliquely erect or = ading, up t in. lon 
divided from the base or from 2-3 lin. above it, liform, angular, 
scaberulous ; branchlets and pedicels oie short ; spikelets er row ed, 
broad, elliptic to oblong, obtuse, strongly compressed, 2-4 lin. by 
130i, , )—12-flowered, more or less tinged with dull purple; rhaehilla 
flexuous, disarticulating ; glumes subequal, oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin. 
long, vigi y membranous except at the narrow hyaline margins, 
lower l-nerved, keels rough; valves broad, obliquely ovate, very 
obtuse, 1 lin. long, rigidly membranous to subchartaceous, except at 
the very narrow hyaline margins, granular-scabrid, side-nerves strong, 
prominent, keel scabrid ; pales equal to the valves, keels stout and 
scaberulous; anthers 1 lin: long. Trin. Gram. Suppl. 71, and in 
im. A : a 
% cad. Pétersh. scr. 6, iv 72; Durand §& Schinz, Consp 
Fl. Afr. v. 880, E striata, Nees, Afr. Austr. 385 
Syn, Pl. Glum, i. 270; Durand §& Schinz, lc. 890. LE. stricta, 
Nees, ex Durand & Schinz, le. 880 (by error). Poa striata, Thunb. 
Prod, 22; Fl. Cap. i. 421 ; ed. Schult. 113 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 345. 
P. bergiana, Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. 549, t. 1 89 ; Enum.i. 334 ; Suppl. 
290. P. floccosa, etm —_ been Pug. iii. "39; Nees in Linnea, 
Vii. 828 ; Kunth, Enum. i 
Coast Region: Rive rsdale Div.; banks of na Gauritz River, Thunberg ’ 
Ecklon. Qudtshorn Divs: Cannaland, ” Thunber. 
Centrat Region: Prince Albert Div. ; by es Gamka River, Bergius 
Beaufort West Diy.; near Beaufort, Eckion ; between Beaufort t and Rhinoster 
~oP in w V ountains, Dr 0 
East, Bowker, 80! Graaff Reinet Div.; by the Sunday River, 1600-2000 tt. 
7 : ar Reinet, 2500 Bolus, 552! higher parts of Compass 
Berg (Spitz Kop), Bolus, 1288! Middelburg Div.; between Wolve Kop and 
Midde elburg, Burchell, 2789! Colesberg Div. ; near Woidedbouvdd, Drége. 
39. E. obtusa (Munro ex Ficalho & Hiern in — 
Ser. 2, ii. 32); perennial, densely cexspitose, with numerous intra- 
vaginal innovation-shoots ; culms usually repeatedly pneas wiry, 
wt It. long, smooth, ‘glabr us, 2—4-noded, internodes e ; 
sheaths tight, glabrous exeept at the bearded mouth, very rarely 
finely ciliate along the margins, lowest very firm, persistent; ligule 
a line of short hairs : blades linear, long tapering to a su eou 
Point, 2- 8] lin., usually involute or convolute, rathe 
*—4in. by 4-3 in., rather lax ; axis straight, smooth ; branches solitary, 
rarely subopposite rather distant, ech cae a 
