626 GRAMINEX (Stapf). —— [Eragrostis. 
smooth, divided from near the base or 3-4 lin. above it; branchlets 
straight below, capillary and flexuous above; pedicels capillary, 2 1-2 lin. 
long ; spikelets loose or rather crowded on the a more or 
less nodding, broadly ovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse or Pe: 
orbicular, vogue ay laterally 5 a whitish or usually more 
less grey, 13-23 lin. by 12-2 lin., closely 8-20-flowered ; thachilla 
disarticulating ; glumes and ‘valves very similar, broad, boat- shaped, 
membranous, keeled, subacute; lower glume 1-nerved, 3-3 lin 
Jong, upper 3-nerved, 8 lin. long; valves obliquely truncate at the 
base, 1 lin. long, keel stouter upwards, smooth, side-nerves 
ciliolate ; anthers + lin. long; grain dorsally compressed, broadly 
elliptie or suborbicular in outline, plano-convex, 2 lin. long, brown, 
smooth. Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr.v.886. Briza geniculata, 
Thunb. Prodr. 21; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 112; Kunth, Enum. i. 372 ; 
a. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 282. B. nigra, Burch. Trav. i. 587 (name 
only). 
Sourn AFrica: without precise pe wes Thunber 
ale Div 
Cc ReEGion : Rivers n the Guarite Le and Great Vals 
River, Burchell, 6527! Uitenhage ate tween the Zwartkops River and 
unday River, Ecklon §° Zeyher! ae Flats, to ye ‘aot of the Winter- 
hoek Mountains, Ecklon. Alban iv.; summit of as Berg, 2300 tt., 
MacOwan, 1277! Alexandria Div. ; Sam Tees Vlakte near Enon, Dra ge. Bathurst 
Div.; Port Alfred, Hutton, 7e! Fort Beaufort Div.; Fort Be stot, Ecklon ; 
ates River, Baur, 1063. Stockenstrom Div.; Winte erberg, near Philipton, 
ck ~ 
L Reeton: Prince Albert Div.; near arlene 5 by the Gamka 
be Su 
River, "2500-3000 ft., Drege. Jansenville Div.; betw nday River and 
the Zuur erg Range, Drége ! Somerset Div.; near So nee East, Bowker, 148 
Graaff Reinet Diy. ; stony hills near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 368! Al rt 
- ft., ie he 
657! Richmond Div. ; by the Zeekoe r, 5000 ft., era Colesberg Div: 5 
at Carolus Poort, eel ‘hell, 7631 near Goteborg, Shaw 
AHARI Rue : Griqu aland West, Hay Div erases Griqua Town and 
te Water, Burchel, 1978! Ora ners Bree, State Caledon River, Burke! 
Transvaal ; Derde Poort, near Pretoria, Nelso 
Also in acpi Africa, according to ale pa Hiern. 
40..E. brizantha (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 411); annual, with very 
few feeble barren fae culms faseicled, “goniculate-ascending 
bearded at the mouth ; ligule a fringe - short hairs ; blades ine 
tapering to a fine point, 1- “2 in _ long, 1 lin. wide at the base, flat 0 
more or less involute or convolute above, somewhat rigid, glaucous, 
scabrid except on the back towards the base, scantily “hairy on sat 
upper side or quite glabrous; panicle consisting —8 somewha 
distant dense short false spikes, to 21 in. long, straight; a 
Stut, 
smooth or slightly rough; branches up to 7 lin. long, filiform, : 
spreading, bearing dense olpsters of subsessile spikelets ; spikele 
