664, GRAMINE (Stapf). | Ehrharta. 
ciliate, base beardless; fertile valve ovate, subacute in profile, 
1-1; lin. long, grape pale palais near the base ; lodicules 
haeinds stamens 3, anthers ~ lin.; stigma brush- like. Nees, 
Fl. Afr. Austr. 221; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 3 .5; Durand § Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 794. 
EG10ON: Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Ebenezer, dry hills, below 300 ft., 
Drege, weld Ae -logecpe ae between ened and Hex River, 1000-1500 ft., ” 
Drege! Paa r Paarl, in copses, 500-1000 ft., Drége. Worcester Div. ; 
Hex River alley, Wolley Dod, 3700! 
2. E. longiflora (Sm. Pl. Ic. Ined. t. 32); culms geniculate- 
ascending or erect, usually simple, weak, 1-2 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, 5-4. noded, uppermost internode up to 9 in. long; sheaths 
rather ‘loose, glabrous, smooth; ligules truncate, up to 1 lin. 
long ; blades linear from a clasping fimbriate base, 3— 6 in. b 1_5 lin, 
flaccid, scaberulous or smooth, usually softly haisy or alabrescent, 
margins wavy, scabrid ; panicle narrow, up to } ft. long, flaccid, 
3+ lin. lene: lower glume oh oa peers iviel —u be lin., 5- nerved ; 
upper glume oblong, cuspidate, 15-2 lin. long, 7- wanes empty 
valves laneeolate-oblong, Brees into a beak or a scabrid subulate 
awn of varying length (1-5 lin.), 7-nerved, the lower 3 lin. long, 
with a minute beard in front a 2, small tufts of hairs at the back 
of the base, scabrid above and often transversely rugose below, the 
upper up to 32 lin. long, with a pair of inegnapienous “bearded ridges 
at the base ; fertile valve oblong, subacute, 21—2% lin. long, 7- nerved, 
glabrous, not appendaged ; lodicules ciliate ; stamens 6; anthers 
% lin. Jong; stigmas brush-like. Thunb. Prodr. 192; Fl. Cap. ed. 
Schult. i. 336; Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 56, ‘t. 4, fig. 7; 
Schrad. in Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1377 5 Kunth, ae i 14; Lt vets 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. fri vy. 792. i ‘1 ongiflora, vars. 
pay. ur A Sai sice: ones Nees, f C. abi E. Banksii, J. F. 
i, Rs Steud. Le. ve pra rand & poate l.e. 791. P. longiseta, 
Selirai, in Goett. Gel. Anz. iil. Ape sn 2078, ance is Schult. f. le. 
1377; Kunth, Enum. i. 15, longifolia, Durand § Schinz, 1c. 
792 (partly, not Schrad.), Py avenacea, Willd. ex Schult. f. lc. 
1378 ( from the description). 
Sovurn Arrica: without precise ene Thunberg ! 
Coast Region: Clanwilliam Div. r Clanwilliam, 350 ita Seblecsior> 
8591! Brak Fontein ty by the Olifants River, in sand, Dreg 
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