642 GRAMINEEX (Stapf). [ Chloris: 
black when mature, ciliate along the marginal nerves and bearded 
below the tip, finely grooved on the faces, ‘keel glabrous or minutely 
ciliate cauiled the middle ; awn 5-8 lin. long, straight ; pale giatieor ss : 
anthers 4—1 lin. long ; orain linear-oblong, obtusely triquetrous, $ lin. 
profile, 1 lin. or less long, awn from below the tip, 3-6 lin. long. Doell 
in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. iti. 65. C. compressa, DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. 
1813, 94; Nees in Linnea, vii. 300; Fl. Afr. Austr. 240; Steud. 
Syn. "PL. Glum. i. 204; Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 556. 
C. hang Pane ex Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 205; Borss. 
1. Or. C. multiradiata, Hochst. in Flora, 1855, 204; 
Durand € Sein Consp. Fl, Afr. vi. 861. C. barbata, var. meccana, 
Aschers. § Schweinf. Ill. Fl. Egypte, 170; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. ii, App. ii. 32. 
Var. 8, elegans (Stapf); spikes up to 3 in. long 5 oe riage sub- 
parcial lower valve conspicuously gibbons, 13 lin. long, more deeply groove: ed 
n the faces, keel glabrous or ciliate to, Pag _ arded at = middle, C. elegans, 
H.B.K, Now. Gen . 166 unth, Enum. i. 264; Steud. Syn. 
Pl. Glum. i. 204. @. polyaacty/ta, pink ot Gram. ‘2, . 9 (non Swarts). 
C. alba, Presl, Rel. Haenk. 289. A sila gige Oliv. in s. Linn. Soc. XxX. 
174, non DC. OC. Tacit Anderss. in Peters, sa ae 556. 
Souru Arrica: without precise siete Zeyher, 1822 
Coast REGi as oS nhage Div.; Steenbok Flats, northern apa “ Winter- 
hoeks Bergen, Ecklon; near Uitenhage, Zeyher ! MacOw Komgha 
Div. ; banks of Kel River, Drége! Queenstown Div. ; Shiloh, eens oral! plains 
of Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2363! 
oe ReGion: Aberdeen D Div.; Camdeboo ag bane 2500-3000 ft., 
Graaff Reinet Div.; by the Sunday River, north of M onkey Ford, 
Burchell, 2862! Colesberg Div.; ; near Calesberas sage! 4! Richmond Div. ; 
Winterveld, Ecklon Pebesien 843! Albert Div.; Coop 
KaLaHani RgGIon : riqualand West, “Herbert gv ; St. Clair, Douglas, 
Orpen, eae Albania, sade the Ora and Vaal River, 4500 ft-, 
Bolus, 1968! Orange Free State; Olifants Foutein, Rehmann, 3538! near the 
Ca iain River, Burke, 429! Thabunchu, Burke! Transvaal ; near Lydenburg, 
screiromady d 
N REGIon : berg otk between oa (Geua or Geuu) River, am 
hiaiee River, a aga , Drage ! oe Berea, Wood, 5943! river gg 
Tugela, 600-1000 f dg dary 186! Vau Reenens Pass, 5500 ft., Wood, 599 
Var. 8: Natal; si Wood, 687! 
Widely spread ising the tropics of both hemispheres. 
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3. C. gayana (Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 89, ii. 293, t. 58); ear 
or annual, 2-4 ft. high; culms ereet or geniculately-ascending, o f 
prostrate at the base, simple or branched, often emitting fascicles 0: 
ine poln $2 
more than | ft. by 3-4 lin. when expanded, flat or folded, glabrous 
or hirsute near the base, green, smooth below, rough above am oA 
the margins; spikes 6-15, umbelled, sessile, suberect, “ y 
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