640 GRAMINEX (Stapf). | Harpechloa. 
Desv. in Journ. Bot. iii. (1813) 69. Eleusine falcata, Spreng. Syst. 
1. 
Sourn oe Baie oe sage he age te 
endar 
Coast REGIOD Sw d. Mossel Bay Div.; between 
Duyker River a Ga sete a ge Pat 6402! Uniondale Div.; Lange 
Kloof, Ecklon. uificahe age Div.; Van Stadensber rg Range, nearest t to Galge- 
bosch, Burchell, 4729! Port Elizabeth Div. dkeerk Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 95! 
Alexandria Div. ; between Sunday River and Busk mans River, ng near Addo, 
Drége ; northern slopes of the Zuur Berg Range, . 2500 3000 ft., Drege ! Albany 
Div.; mountains near Grahamstown, 2300-2400 fe Saar Sug 1293! Burke! 
Stocken ce Div.; above ies Pty near — sources of the Kat River, Zeyher ! 
Kat Berg, 3000-4000 ft., Dré Queenstown Div. ; Finchams Nek, near 
Queenstown, 3900 ft., Galpin, 2370! Britis h Catfrari ria, ‘Cooper, 3357 ! 
ENTRAL REGION : ae Div. ; plateau on the summit of Bosch Berg, 
near Somerset East, 4800 ft., MacOwan S§’ Bolus, Herb. ek, Aust. Aft. 4 790! 
one ot AN : NP wel Kane Mountain, 5000 ft., Bolus, 137 
I REG Free Sta re Cooper, 916! aaear: TEmdaobil 
Distr, ‘Eiitakop. Goldene ib, — : 
N Region: Tembuland ; near sea, Baur, fry 2 near Pieter 
V asatea 1000-2000 ste fat “td! Riet Vlei, 4000-5000 ft., Buchanan, 
mo ! aoe River, 4000 ft., Wood, 73177 and without pated tear Buchanan, 
57! 93 
LX. CHLORIS, Swartz. 
Spikelets of 2-4 florets, sessile, crowded, unilateral, 2-seriate on & 
slender rhachis; rhachilla disarticulating ’ above the glumes, tough 
between the valves, more or less pr roduced ; lowest floret erma- 
phrodite, the second male or barren, the following, if present, barren, 
often minute. Gluwmes 2, persistent, narrow, “kee ed, acute and 
mucronate, very thin, or broad, and the upper obtuse, more or less 
bilobed and rounded on the ‘back, Hermaphrodite floret : valve 
narrow or broad, 3-nerved, acute or obtuse, minutely 2- toothed, 
usually awned from below the apex, often ‘ciliate ; ; pale almost 
equalling the valve, 2-keeled ; lodicules 2, minute, delicate, glabrous ; 
stamens 3; ovary glabrous, styles distinct, short ; stigmas * laterally 
exserted. Male floret: valve and pale as in the hermaphrodite 
ower, but smaller and glabrous. Rudimentary florets glabrous, 
awned or awnless, small to very small, usually without a trace of 
pale. Gruin oblong, triquetrous; embryo rather large ; hilum 
Janene basal. 
Perennial or annual ; leaves diet or folded ; spikes solitary or several to many in 
terminal umbels or short race erect or stellately spreadin 
Species 40-45, in the seat ‘ilk subtropical regions of both hemispheres. 
Glumes narrow, ng acute or mucronate, keeled : 
Valves lo ong awn 
imentary Aoret sihaante —_ on a long ; : 
rhachilla joint ... (1) pyenothrix. 
Rudimenta: dk Ge neate on a rather short 
rhachilla joint, more than $ the length of the 
her: ite - BR try a 
Dagheses second rudimentary floret) ... ... (2) virgata. 
Awns as long as the valve ne "Tittle beneee ; sane nd 
floret usually male ona short rhachilla joint ... (3) gayana. 
Upper glume very broad, shortly bilobed, manoronate, 
rounded or almost flat on the baal (4) petrea, 
