Eragrostis. } GRAMINER® (Stapf). 629 
Coast REGION: Cape Div. ; near Capetown, Spielhaus ! 
Eastern Recion: Natal; slo rage of Tegel, 600-1000 ft., Buchanan, 257! 
in coffee plantations, near Durban, Drége, 4285 
Southern India, tropical Africa, and Misdarite Islands, 
44. E. gummifiua (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 393); sibeeery eom- 
pactly ezspitose ; culms firm, erect, slender or so stout, 
1-2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, usually very Veoktie halite the 
at i I 
4-10 in. long, 1-2 lin. wide at when e ed, rigid, 
glabrous, smooth on the back, densely scabrid along the projecting 
ne 0 e upper side; panicle linear or w-oblong, erect, 
-10 in. long; rhachis angular, smooth; branches solitary, or 
irregularly approximate and subverticillate, erect or obliquely erect, 
short or the lower up to 3 in. long, angular, smooth, divided from 
the ae ranchlets mostly very short, subse eund, with the 
ae in —- clusters ; pedicels very short ; spikelets oblong, 
obtuse, u - 2 lin. long, purplish or slight brown, rigid, loosely 
side-nerves very prominent, keel seaberulous above ; pales subequal 
v 
to the valves, and falling with them, keels — above ; stamens 
3; anthers 2 lin. long ; Ee oblong-ellips oid, 1~1 lin. long, brown, 
smooth, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 271; Durand § Schinz, Consp. 
Fl. Afr. v. 883 
OA ion: Uitenhage Div.; by the cmp Div. be ee Zeyher, isos 
Coast Rea 
Winterhock Mountain, Krauss, 59! Homa nsdorp ee, een Galge 
and Melk River, Burchell, 4772! Uniondale Div. ; ae Kloof, aah 
Wagenbooms River and Apies River, Burchell, 4939! Komgha Diy. ; banks of 
Kei River, below 500 ft., Drege! Queenstown Div.; by the Zwart Kei River, 
4000 ft., Drd ége ! 
Katana ARI ReGion: Basutoland; near Leribe, Buchanan, 140! Transvaal 
osch Veld, between Elands River ‘and mes y) , Rehmann, 5117! Ruaenbees 
B 
sg toe omg meskes ane River, Neilson, 3 
Ea anskei ; ae of he Bashee River, Drége. Natal; 
N REG 
withont | rie vial Psat fs 
45. E. ciliaris (Link, Hort. Berol. i. 192); — or sub- 
Perennial (?), tufted; culms geniculate, ascending, ofte , from a 
Procumbent base, slender, 1-2 ft, long, glabrous, smooth, ‘sitopie or 
can 
mouth ; ligule a pa of short hairs; blades linear, tapering to a 
fine point, 3-6 in. by 1-2 lin. ete ‘involute, somewhat stiff and 
Spreading, glabrous, or with scattered fine long hairs, scaberulous ; 
“tea, spike-ike, more or se lobed or interrupted, dense to very 
dense, 9-6 j ong; axis scabrid; branches adpressed, bissatly all 
very short or he lowest ap fo. 1 in, long, divided from the base ; 
