Eragrostis. | | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 627 
vate or broad-oblong, obtuse, 11-2 lin. by 1-11 lin., compressed, 
ions ely 8-17-flowered ; rhachilla disarticulating ; : glumes and valves 
similar, membranous, whitish, becoming dar towards the tip, 
inflated, boat-shaped, 1 lin. long, side-ne 8 prominent ; pales sub- 
equal to the valves, broad, very obtuse, eels seabrid above ; ; anthers 
2 lin. long, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 272; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. ‘Afr. v. 880; Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 26. 
Western Region : Little Namaqualand ; by the Orange os near Verlept- 
pram, Drege! Great Namaqualand; between Aus an uias, Schenck, 221; 
near Gobachab, between Aus and the Orange River, Schenck, 337! ! Pohle, 17! 
Also in the tropical part of German South-west Africa. 
41. E. echinochloidea (Stapf) ; biennial (, without innovation- 
shoots (2) ; culms geniculate, suberect from a slender short rhizome, 
branched, about 12 ft. long, rather firm, glaucous, glabrous, smooth, 
3-4-no ed, internodes exserted, branches sometimes fnatseled: 
sheaths glabrous, loosely striate, upper tight, lower at length 
loosened, rather firm, more or less persistent; ligule a fringe " of 
Minute hairs ; eo linear, tapering to a fine point, 13-3 in. by 
> lin. at or nvolute, rigid, often spreading, glaucous, glabrous 
and smooth Eales scaberulous ‘and sometimes finely hairy in the 
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about 2 in. long; axis smooth, angular towards the nodes ; es 
, ing, triquetrous, more or less seeund and spike-like from 
densely clustered spikelets, the lowest up to 1 in. long; pedicels 
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very short; spikelets os subacute, strongly compressed, 2 lin, by 
1-1} lin., whitish, 7-13-flowere d, often tinged with greyish-purple ; 
thachilla disarticulating ; glumes oblong to ovate in profile, acute 
middle; anthers 2 lin, long; grain oblong, 2 lin. long, brown, 
Smooth ; pericarp loose. 
Riis ce Region: Orange Free State; between Kimberley and Bloem- 
fontein, Buchanan, 284! 
42. E. Lappula (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 412) ; perennial, densely 
cespitose ; le erect or geniculate, rm, rather stout, 2-3 ft. long, 
glabrous, sm mooth, about 3-noded, upper tans (sometimes also 
the lower} exserted ; lower sheaths firm, strongly striate, pubescent 
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harrow, linear, filiform-convolute, tapering to a fine ‘iis , 6-12 in. 
long, re lin. broad when e xpande ed, rigid, flexuous, glabrous or 
zat hairy particularly towards this base, smooth on the back, 
rulous or smooth on the face, strongly striate ; panicle erect or 
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