644 GRAMINER (Stapf). | Chloris. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 207 ( partly); Hack. in Engl. Jahrb, xi, 403 ; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 862 (partly), non Swarte. 
Andropogon muticum, Houtt. Hand. xiii. 579, t. 98, fig. 3, non Linn. 
A. capense, Houtt. Linn. Pf. Syst. xii. t. 93, ig. 3. yale 
petrea, Spreng. Pug. ii.17 (partly). oe petraa, Nees 
Linnea, vii. 299 ; Fl. Afr. Austr. 248; Roem. J Schult. Syst. ui. 
613; Kunth, Enum. i. 262 (partly), non pee 8U. 
Sour soe tae ed «on locality, Thunberg ! 
ae ReGion: Caledo ; Genadendal, 500-1000 ft., Drége. Riversdale 
Div.; between "Zoste melks ive ‘and ua Vet River, Burchell, 6841! Uitenhage 
Div. ; between Koega River and Sun Hob Drége. Klein ‘Winterhoek Berg, 
v4 
Div. ; near Addo, Ecklon, between HE Goat Kloof and Drie Fontein, 
2000 ft., Drége! Alba any aie ee MacOwan! Bothas Berg, 
2000 1 ft., MacOwan, 493! Queenstown Div. ; n Kat Berg and Klipplaats 
River, 3000- t., Drége / on mountains at pei Nek, near Queenstown, 
3900 ft be gah 2369! ! 
CEN Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; — hills near Graaff Reinet, 
2700 ft, Bolus, 369 | Albert Div. ; Cooper, 664 
Katanart REGION: Griqualand West Ha ay Div. ; Griqua Town, Burchell, 
1951! plains at the foot of the Asbest 3 Mount: ains, Burchell, 2096! Orange 
Free State, ~ealaamalgs 268 ! Bectanaiand Marloth. 
STERN Rea Tembu Bazeia, 2000 ft., Bawr, 449! Natal; Umpu- 
mulo, Tackonihs,: 189 ! Pieter ioe 1000-2000 ft., Wood, 7234! 
Also in tropical Africa, 
Very closely allied to the South American C. bahiensis, Steud., but less to 
C. swartziana, Doell (C. petrea, Swartz), with which it has often been con- 
fused, 
LXI, ELEUSINE, Gaertn. 
Spikelets 3-6-flowered, laterally os i nae ft imbricate, 
alternately biseriate, unilateral, sessile on a ened rhachis, the 
uppermost terminal, perfect; rhachilla decrees above the 
e 
: gh, produced, sometiin’ 
terminating with a rudimentary valve. orets $. Glumes * 
subequal, Less obtuse or obscurely en membranous, 
strongly , 3-5-nerved, the lateral nerves close to the keel, ve 
lower Sea with the keel crested. Valves very anita, 3-nerve 
near the base ; lateral nerves submarginal above, with 1-2 sh 
additional nerves close to the keel. Pales slightly shorter than the 
valves, 2-keeled, keels winged. Loodicules 2, minute, cuneate 
Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous ; styles slender from a broadened bas¢, 
distinct stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain broadly-oblong 
to globose, broadly grooved; pericarp loose, delicate, breaking ‘a 
irregularly or almost circumscissile; seed finely striate ; embry 
suborbicular, basal ; hilum punetiform, basal. 
Ann ennial; leaves long, flat or pr flaccid or firm; spikes ot 
canted | ethos or the upper or all in a terminal umbel, straight, sober 
spreading or deflexed; spikelets glabrous 
Species 6 in tropical Africa and ee 1 widely spread through the trop!<* 
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