DOS Se ge ee eee 
Ehrharta.] GRAMINEZ (Stapf). 665 
near padande oink, Wolley ges pia Piers Road, Wynberg, Wolley Dod, 
3230! precipices by the second waterfall on ph gms Pe ‘ak, Wolley Dod, 3455! 
Dod, B01 
: Div.; Z 
River, Zeyher ! Eereyranle Divi 3 Gauritz River, Bellon, Monel Bay Div 
Attaquas Wick ¢ 
Introduced into St. Helena and Bourbon, 
. dura (Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 13) ; perennial, densely i 
culms erect, simple, 1-2 ft. long glabrous, smooth, 2-noded ; leav 
crowded at the base ; lowest sheaths very firm, kaadintesi or net ig 
» Smooth or rough, margins sometimes wavy, upper blades 
linear, convolute, short ; panicle oblong to sublinear, erect or 
nodding, 3-5 in. long, rather loose ; rhachis smooth; branehes in 
distant semi-whorls or pairs, unequal, up to 2 in. long, the lowest 
branched, the others simple, 3-1-spieulate, filiform, glabrous, tips 
thickened ; pedicels up to 6 lin. long; spikelets lanceolate- oblong 
strongly comptessed, 5 —6 lin. long, greenish; glumes ovate-oblong, 
Ww 
obtuse , the upper 22 lin., sometimes emarginate ; lower empty valve 
linear-oblong, ¢ gradually or abruptly contracted into a short bristle, 
3~4 lin. long, prominently 5+74 perved, scaberulous above, bearded at 
the base in front and behin upper empty vaive lanceolate, 
gradually narrowed into an awn, 3 lin. long, 7—-9-nerved, scaberulous, 
base with a short beard and a tympanum-like pit on each side; a 
except for a beard at the base and the ciliate tip, 7—-9-nerved ; 
lodicules piesa 1 lin. Jong; stamens 6; anthers 2} lin. long ; 
stigmas plumose. Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 218%; — Syn. Pl. 
Hum 1.5; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 791. 
Coasr eee gk see Div. 5 Talhah. Waterfall, Ecklon, Worcester Dives 
Duteits Kloo ft., on ss Drége! Swellen am Div.; a 
Mountain nea ae uspus _ Ecklon nf degher, 4518! Caledon Div. 2 eas 
Hoek Mount: rer Nienw Kloof, Burchell, 8058! Mossel Bay Div.; Patents 
Kloof, Gill! Uitenha; ge Div. ; Witteklip Mountain, MacOwan, 2126! 
4. E. microlena (Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 13) ; perennial, densely 
tuft ted; culms erect, slender, simple, 2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 
2- (rarely 3- ) noded ; leaves crowded. a the Bes ‘lower seats com- 
blade setaceous, ak ge acute, the lowe r to 3 ft. long or more, 
the upper much shorter, glabrous, smooth or seaberulous ; panicle 
i 6 
acne filiform, scaberulous except at the base ; branches 4~2-nate or 
usually simple, 2-1- (rarely 6-3-) spiculate, capillary, scabrid ; 
