660 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Leersia. 
scales smooth, striate; stems ereet from a prostrate or ascending 
base, igar id from the lower nodes, 2—4 ft. high, simple or very 
smooth, fiery striate ; uppermost internode longest (up to 
1 ft., rarely to 1 ft., long); sheaths rather tight or the lower 
looser and ultimately spreading, terete, usually shorter than the 
internodes, the uppermost longest, reaching to or almost to the 
panicle, glabrous, slightly scabrid or smooth, except the villous nodes ; 
ligule short, obliquely truncate or bilobed, firmly membranous ; 
blades narrowly linear, tapering to a fine point, 3-6 in. by 13-4 lin., 
glaucous, usually subrigid, Bai gael seabrid ; panicle 2-4 in. 
long, erect or noi or “les accld a ding, narrow ; pore vee: 
sean coneavo-convex, apreine ely bresued 12—2 lin. long, sometimes 
purplish ; sides of valve scabrid or smooth ; stamens 6; anthers 
1-12 lin. pee Kunth, Enum. i. 6; Trin. in — Acad. Petrop. 
ser. Gt! — te Steud. sige Pi. Glum. i, 2; Durand § Schinz, 
195; een Rév, Bie. 179, 1; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 193; 
Krauss in Flora, 1846, 121. e luzonensis, Presl, Rel. Haenk. i 
207. L. elongata, Petit-Thouars in Herb. Willd. ex Presl, 1.3 
Trin. in Mém Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, v. (1839) 172. ei bape ga 
Desv, Opuse. 61, L. mauritanica, Salem. ex Trin. 
triniana, Sieb. ex Trin. Le. LZ. abyssinica, Rah ex a. * pick 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 356. L. egyptiaca, Fiy. § De Not. in Mem. 
; i A. } : 
(name only). Seok iecantra Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. ii. 10. 
O. australis, A. Br. ex Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 300; Ascher’. 
Sf Bacar Tu. Fi. Souiite 167. 
Coast Region: Robertson Div. ; = Veld, Thom! George Div. ; Pletten- 
berg Bay, Mund. Uiten ee Div. rtkops River, Ecklon ¥ pion 510! 
in the bed of the Vanstaadens Honing uum: 2188! Lower Albany; neat | 
Glenfilling, 500-1000 ft., Drége ! Komgha Div. ; in oe valley of the Key River, — 
rége. 
Katanant Reeion: Orange Free State; near Winberg, Buchanan, 251! 
ba ppc. near Lydenbi —e. Wilms, 1703! 
Eastern Recion: Tem boland s_ near Been, 2000 ft., Baur, ope! Natal ; 
Daten Flats, Buchanan, 21 75! 96! Berea, 100 ft., Wood, 5944! by the 
Umlazi River, Krauss, 9! by the Tugela Hie, 600 ft., and at Umpumulo, 
2000 ft., Buchanan, 281! | 
Widely spread through the tropical and subtropical regions. 
LXXI. EHRHARTA, Thunb. 
Spikelets laterally compressed, panicled or racemed, sometimes 
sont pedieelled ; rhachilla dicerticuiatiag below the valves, more 
