630 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Hragrostis. 
igi es short; spikelets crowded, ovate, strongly compressed, 
almost 2 lin. long, loosely 6-12- flowered, pallid, sometimes 
ee a Tachi breaking up; glumes oblong- lanceolate, acute, 
2 to almost + lin. long, 1-nerved, keel scabrid ; Aigo oblong in 
profile, ue ole Hore and mucronulate, spreading, ‘about 2 lin. long, 
thin, side-nerves prominent, keel s cabrid ; ; pales equal to the valves 
and falling with them, keels of jake very long ba rigidly ciliate ; 
anthers 1-1 lin. long ; grain elongate-ovoid, 1 lin, long, brown. 
Trin. Gram. Gen. 397, and in Mém. Acad. Péborsb. ser. a i, 897; 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 413 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 265; ‘Anderss. 
in Peters, ees ope es Bot. 558; Baker, Fl. Maurit. 456; Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 881; Stapf in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vii. 314. E. lepida, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 424. EE. 
pulchella, Parl. in Hook. Niger Fl. 188. Poa ciliaris, Linn. Sp. 
Pl. 102; Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. ii. t. 304; Kunth, Enum, i. 337. 
Rich. Le. 493, once siliaris, ’ Beauv. Agrost. 167; Roem. 
& Schult. Syst. ii. 
EASTERN REGION ene common near the coast, Buchanan, 160! margins 
of woods near he Unlasi River, Krauss, 349! near Durban, McKen, 124! 
sie Flats, Buchanan, 38! Berea, Wood, 5926! between Umz zimkulu River 
d Umkomanzi River, Drage, 4270! and without precise locality, coeur 601! 
182! Delagoa Bay, Wilms, 1691 
Common throughout coaies! Africa and America, and in North India. 
Linhas a, “Lit, -Ber - 1 : annual or ce ul 0, tutte’ 
culms erect, ied 1_] ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 1-noded, simple, 
ae open an a ong, 4-6 i 
branches solitary or 2-3-nate or irregularly approximate, erect or 
obliquely — rather loosely and repeatedly divided from near 
the base, all divisions subeapillary, gach aie = be ost sO ; 
nerves prominent, smooth, like the keel; pales subequal t oe 
valves, keels smooth, falling with the valebas ; stamens 2; anthers 
b 
Steud. Syn. l. Glum. i. 272. E. inten vrupta, ar. are 
Var. 8, robusta (s tapf) ; ii sate. Bad be 3 ft. high, ae single og 
branched below ; sheaths long, exceeding the internodes (except t he uppermost) 
usually re from the stem and rolling mati in the upper part; Sgn 
3-14 ft. 1 ng contracted, dense; branches more numerous, often 
long; ant Raa } lin 
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