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Enneapogon.| GRAMINER® (Stapf). 657 
3-5-noded, internodes usually enclosed except the uppermost; 
sheaths rather loose, the lower whitish, sae seabrid, nodes villous ; 
blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 2-41 in. by 12 lin.,. flat or 
more often convolute, rather rigid, seabiid on both sides; panicle 
spike-like, ee sometimes ‘interrupted, or oblong to ovate and 
rather lax, 1)-3 in. by 1-3 in., light to dark grey ; lowest oe tle 
up to Lin, 7a bikindhied from the base or simple in the lowest + in, 
ovate, subacute or min y truncate, scantily hairy, 7—9-nerved, 
herves prominent, 2 of the side ones som S percurrent in the 
Upper ine ony lower valve 3-1 lin. long, densely villous; awns 
+ lin News j in Dinteoits vii. 364 FL Afr, Austr, 234. Pappopiorun 
ole Kunth, Enum. i 955 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 192 ; 
urand § Mere Consp. Fil. Afr. v. 870; Hack. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iy. Ap p. iii, 22. 
Coast Rueion : Kuysna Div.; Plettenberg aE Mund. Queenstown Div. ; 
between Kat Berg and Klipph iat River, 3000-400 , Drege. 
| CENTRAL rien Calvinia Div. ; between Loenees Plaats and Springbok 
\uil River, 2000-3000 ft. , Zeyher, 1820! Beaufort West Div.; on stony heights 
and by the a hiver rat Zarate, shoe ie Drage! Graalf Reinet 
i Graaff Reinet, 2700 ft., Bolus, 556 ! Sutherland Div. ; 
n k River Hoogte, Pras oto = ! 1271! Fraserburg 
3 Dwaal River, Burchell, 1471! narvon Div. he northern exit of 
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Kan ree Bergen Poort, near Caruar von, poe ell, 1557 ! i Richmond Di v.; Zeekoe 
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4 N Recron : Great Namaqualand ; Kukans, near Aus, Schenck, 117! 
Pg Schins, 634! ae er 40. Little Namaqualand ; Silver Fontein, near 
Ookie , a to 
PR Ka Gr alana West, Hay Div. ; on the Asbestos Mountains, 
burchell, 2052 | chs t Div.; St. Clair, Orpen 
Also in tropical South-west reas Morocco, and 4 kieiete. 
LXVIIl. SCHMIDTIA, Steud. 
Spikelets yore ts 6-flowered ; rhaehilla disarticulating above the 
glumes and between the valves, joints extremely short, glabrous. 
f lirale ‘heesiva Biases except ‘the rudimentary uppermost one. 
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alves broad, rounded on the back, rather firm and villous below, 
9-nerved, the nerves excurrent into straight subulate scabrid 
“Wns, the 4 alternate ones into very thin lanceolate muticous lobes; 
callus slender, minute, bearded. blong, 2-keeled, rather 
longer than the body of valves. Lodicules 2, minute, cuneate, 
ésh ry glabrous; styles distinct, slender ; 
stigmas laterally exserted ; abe plumose. Grazn oblong, dorsally 
S opre eae ctiform, —_— embryo large, occupying 
+ Or more of the back of the 
Perennial or annual (?), more or less glandular-pubescent ; blades rather 
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