Enneapogon. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 655 
culms fascieled, geniculately ascending, 2-6 in. long, slender, often 
with a bulbous thi ckening at the base, 9-4-noded, simple or sparingly 
striate, nodes a uae to picti blades very narrow, linear, finely 
light to dark ie ; oe as lin. long ; saci mie ‘oblong, 
7-) nerved. side-nerves evanescent above e5 lower va alte. 8 Jin. long, 
shortly villous ; awns about 1-12 lin. long, shortly pluinose to or 
eyond the aa pale 1 ‘lin n. long, keels scabrid; anthers 
ellipeoid- -oblong, +—1 lin, long ; grain almost } lin. long. Pappo- 
phorum ditersseag ht ae in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 73; Gram. 
Gen. , and in Mém. Acad, Pétersb. sér. 6, i. (1831) 91; Kunth, 
Enum, A, a mr pee nor Steud. F af Bae) igh mts ‘Jaub. : 
. O : 
De Not. in Mem. Ace. ae ser. 2, xil. (i859) 254, fa ilbetit, 
Fig. § De Not. l.c. P. vincen Fae Schmidt, Beitr. Fl. Cap. 
Verd. Ins. 144; Durand i Shins, Le. 871. P. nanum, Steud. Le. 
as senegalense, Steud. l.c. 199; Durand & Schinz, Le. 8 i, 
Var. 8, macranthera ( om ; spikelets 2-24 lin. long; glumes less obtuse, 
or subacute ; anthers linear, 2 lin 
Sovutu Liki: without precise locality, Zeyher, 1795! 
Katanari amine Orange Free State; between Kimberley and Bloem- 
fontein, Bucha n, 290! Var. 8: Griqualand West; Dutoits A, Tuck ? plains 
at the foot ae the ueainisig Mountains, Burchell, 2 2078! 
The typical for Cape Verdes and in Senegambia, and from North 
Africa North. West % ndia; a variety with slightly larger anthers in Central 
Asia a (Pappophorum boreale, Ges seb.). 
2. E. mollis (Lehm. Pugill. iii. 40); perennial (sometimes 
flowering in the first year ), more or less glandular-pubescent or 
Villous all over; culms fascicled, erect or Saracen & — 
1-3 ‘fe long, pubescent to fine ely v villous, 2-5-noded, simple 
sparingly branched below, internodes more or less exserted ; heath 
tather tight, finely striate, nodes villous ; blades linear to lanceolate- 
ne 
linear, ong tapering to a 8 in. by 1-3 lin., flat or 
convolute, rigid or subflaccid, scaberulous above and along the 
Margins ; ce spike-like, often interrupted ts lobed beiow, 
i ; lowest cbaggere sometimes up to 1 in. long ; ged tt 
crowded, 1b 191 lin. long; glumes unequal, seantily and fine y 
thin, grey ish, tips ually ‘dark, the lower ovate, subacute or minutely 
truncate, rar pee agin rved, ‘the u u “ somewhat longer, oblong, 
une sig he 
2 aida cori 1-12 lin. nee ng, ae ciliolate; anthers 
ong ; grain not quite 2 lin. by } lin. Nees in Linnea, 
