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Mierochloa.} GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 637 
at the mouth, smooth, the ores perestont breaking os into fibres ; 
blades subsetaceons, with a or callous point, —6 in. long, 
folded, firm, often curved, ie or scantily hairy near the base, 
smooth, margins rough ; ‘spike solitary, 9-31 in. long, usually 
curved, often purple, margins of the thachis. ciliolate ; 'spikelets 
1-flower ed, divergent and biseriate or imbricate and more or less 
grain terete, over } lin. long. 
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ee Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 202; Durand 
§ Schinz, Consp. Fil. Afr. v. 856. 
phe AFRICA ; without locality, Boivin! Harvey 
Ast Reeion: Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh Weterfall, Ecklon 5° Zeyhor! ! 
Uitenhage Div.; near the Zwar artkops River, Zeyher , 946! Stokenstrom 
erg, in grassy places, 3000-4000 ft, Dre “af Zeyher, 7 sl Ni snmngide Div. ; 5 
Bebo Flats, near Windy vogel Berg, 3000 ft., Drége. y Div.; Brand 
raha own, pe ft., MacOwan, 1272 ! 
Onievaat Reaion: Somerset Div. ; Bosch Berg, ma Ul, 3185 
KALAHARI er Tr eo Incomate pag we ‘) R River, Nelson, 13 ! 
Eastern Region: Tembulan a; Tabaze, near oe 2500 ft., Baur, 
— yer Riet Vlei, 400 0-5000 ft., Buchanan 162! gi Puce “County, South 
ft., Wood, 4403 ! Benvie, 3000—4 000 ft., Wood, 6007! Pieter 
ha eat Wood, 722 
3. M. altera ys Harpechloa altera, Rendle in Trans. Linn, 
Soe. ser. 2, Bot. . 57) var. Nelsonii (Stapf) ; eo densely 
ceespitose ; ‘culms ceo ga slender, simple, 8-10 i ong, com- 
long, exserted ; tree pe crowded at the base; pee tight or 
scantily woolly, the basal compressed, keeled, very narrow, persistent, 
at length breaking up into fibres ; blades setaceous, fo ded, acute, 
scarcely distinet from the sheat s, 3-6 in, lon , glabrous, smooth 
spike ~~ ary, 3~1 in. long, usually straight ; rhachis glabrous ; 
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biseriate, : ng, s, brown; glumes lanceolate- oblong, 
obtuse, the lower slightly longer and asymmetric, the upper firmer ; 
lower flo ermaphrodite; valve minutely bilobed, 1} lin. long, 
Ve; upper floret barren, slightly smaller ; valve and pale ite 
ae REcion : : Transvaal ; Incomate (King ond s) River, Ne age oe! 
Eastern Region: Natal; Riet Vlei, 4000-5000 ft., Buchana 163! 
Zululand, 2000-3000 fe, Wood, 7304 
The type of the species, only known from the Shire Highlands, differs mainly in 
the more robust habit , broa der bs basal sheaths, longer and curved spikes, and in the 
Upper floret being (always ?) male. 
