628 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Hragrostis. 
nodding, narrow, eee to lanceolate, contracted, dense, sometimes 
spike- like, 6-8 i Se axis filiform, ae branches ger: 
sistent; glumes subequal, lanceolate, acute, 1 lin. long, thin, 
deciduous, keel scabrid ; valves s omewhat spreading, stiff, lanceolate 
in profile, acute, 1 lin. long or slightly longer, membranous, side- 
nerves prominent, like the keels rigidly ciliate, with the cilia 
tubercle-based (or rarely with the keels glabrous) ; pales subequal to 
the valves, keels tubercled, long and rigidly ciliate from the tubereles; 
anthers over + lin, long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 272; Durand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 
divaricata (Stapf) ; ony open, broadly oblong or ovate; branches 
and branchlets more or less divaricate ; pedicels up to 3 lin. lon ne 
Katawari Reeion: Transvaal; Klip Spruit, Nelson, 58*! B: Bechu- 
an: sland  Pellat Plains ‘bet ween Matl: areen River and Takun, ae 2199! 
Reeion: Natal; near Durban, Drege! Plant, 63! Gerrard, oe 
ie Williamson, 57! Wood, 6047! Rehmann, 8630! Berea, Wood, 5938! 
Zululand, Buchanan, 30 
43. E. aspera (Nees, Fl. ra Austr, one annual; eulms scantily 
faseieled, erect or suberect, 1—% ft. long (excluding the panicle), 
la brous, smooth, simple, Sasand; sicanades usually enclosed ; 
sheaths keeled, glabrous, except at the bearded mouth, or sparingly 
hairy, hairs fine, tubercle- based ; ligule a fringe of long hairs ; 
blades linear, nese to a long setaceous point, “4 in. to more than 
1 ft. by 2-3 lin , flat, flaceid, scabrid on both sides, glabrous ; panicle 
large, very lax and open, thyrsiform, oblong to obovate-oblong, 
8-20 in. long ; axis terete, filiform, smooth below ; branches whorled 
or irregularly appro ximate, finely filiform to capillary, scabrid, 
bearded at the callous base, loosely and repeatedly divided from near 
the base, longest up to 6 in. long; pedicels very long and fine; 
spikelets scattered, linear, obtuse, 21—4 lin. by 2—% lin., pal allid or 
tinged with purple, loosely 4-16-flowered ; : a EN et slender, 
breaking up; glumes subequal, oblong, obtuse, } lin. long, 1-nerve ed ; 
valves obliquely ovate-oblong, truncate, 2—% lin. long, “thin, side 
nerves prominent, strong; pales equal to the valves and falling with 
them, obtuse, keels seabrid; anthers about 1 lin. long 5 
globose, about + lin. in diameter, brown, loose in the somewhat turgid 
florets. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 272; Engl. Hochgebirgsf. pies 
Afr. 133; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii, App. ii. 3 ‘a 
§ Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 879 ; Stapf in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. T 
vil. 314. EF. laxiflora, Schrad. in Linnea, xii. 451 reel ten 
tl F Paes. Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 884. Poa aspera, J 
i 56; Kunth, on i. 332 (exel. var. rn B)s A 
bik: Tent. PL yi . 427. 
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