Chloris.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf), 643 
spreading, 21—4 in, long, greenish or brownish ; rhachis seabrid ; 
spikelets 124 “lin. long, 3—4-flowered, shortly 2-awned, Evin, very 
nas long or slightly longer than the iene straight ; ; callus minutely 
bassin pale glabrous, keels scabrid ; anthers - lin. long; second 
valve with a male flower, like the saietinn: but glabrous, 1 lin. long, 
awn 1 lin, long or less; ia (and if ed “valve rudimentary, 
cuneate in profile, empty, awnless. Kun Enum. i. 2 
Suppl. 216 ; rk Fl. Afr. Aus oii 240; rari ” Syn. Pl. Glum. 
207; Oliv. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xxix. 174; Durand & Sching 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 861. C. abyssinica, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. 
Fl. Abyss. ii, 406; Steud. Le. ; ; Engl. eaganstaiee Trop. Afr. 132 ; 
Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 82; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. lc. 860. ©. glabrata, Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 
t. ii. 557, 
AST REGION : Komgha Diy.; banks of the Kei River, below 500 ft., Drége / 
Dear Komgha, Flanagan, 904! Queenstown Div.; Gwatyn, 2900 fc., Galpin, 
KAtanart ReGion: Transvaal ; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5717 : 
EAsteRN Region: Transkei, between Kei River and _ shee River, 
Drege, Natal; Umlazi River, Drege. Umaduana, Sutherland ! near Durban, 
Wiliarteon, 43! Um mpumulo, Buchanan, 188 ! 
Also in tropical Africa. 
4. C. petra (Thunb. Prodr. 20); perennial, densely tufted ; 
culms erect, or suberect, 1-2 ft. long, 2-noded, compressed below, 
ai smooth, internodes long-exserted ; leaves crowded at the 
an-like manner ; sheaths strongly compressed, keeled, 
blades linear, acute or subobtuse, 2-8 in y 3-3 lin. when expanded, 
nig folded, glabrous, sates smooth ; spikes 3-8, sessile, 
raight or gently curved ; pat 
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oblong, shortly and obtusely 2-lobed, about 1 lin. long, rounded or 
flat on the -back scaberulous, mucronate ; lower valve obliquely 
