666 GRAMINEH (Stapf). | Ehrharta. 
pedicels up to 6 lin. long, tips thickened ; spikelets oblong-lanceolate, 
5-7 lin. long; glumes ovate- oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 5-7-nerved, 
the lower 14 lin. long, the upper 23-3 lin.; lower empty valve 
oblong-lanceolate, shortly awned from the gradually narrowed or 
truncate tip, 3-4 lin. long, prominently 5—7-nerved, scaberulous 
veges Sy oat bearded at the base; upper empty valve lanceolate, 
long, gradually narrowed into a rigid awn, prominently 
5-7- Spel scaberulous above, base pe or obseurely bearded 
with a linear or oblong pit on each side, awn up to 7 lin. long; 
fertile valve linear-oblong, obliquely truneate or subacute, 5-6 lin 
long, faintly 7-nerved, alabrous except at the en tips ; lodicules 
1 lin. long, glabrous 5 stamens 6; anthers 3 long ;_ stigmas 
plumose. Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 217; Steud. bin "Pl Glum. i. 5; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Ft. Afr. v. 793. 
Coast Re@ion : Tulbagh Div. ; Tulbagh pee Ecklon. bores Div. ; 
Dutoits Kloof, in bogs, 3000-4000 ft., Drége ! Swellendam Div., Mund. Rivers- 
dale Div. ; between Vet River and Krombecks fie, Burchell, fr 184! 
5. E. bulbosa (Sm. Pl. Ic. Ined. sub t. 33); perennial ; peer: 
short, slender; culms erect, 1-11 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 
2-3-noded, lowest internode swollen (normally 2) into a denn essed 
subglobose tuber 3 lin. in diam., covered by the villous sheath- 
bases ; basal leaves 3-4; sheaths rather loose to tumid, glabrous, 
smooth; ligule almost reduced to a line of short hairs ; blades 
linear, gradually tapering, 3 in. by 1 lin., glabrous, smooth or 
scaberulous, rather rigid, the es very small or suppressed ; 
panicle narrow, linear, nodding, 2 2-4 in. long, seeund, almost reduced 
to a raceme ; rhachis very slender, smooth ; branches in semi-whorls 
or pairs or solitary, erect or spreading ; pedicels aaa ed piri 
2-6 lin. long; spikelets elliptic-oblong, 3 lin. long; glum 
subequal, lanceolate- oblong, acute or subobtuse, 2-21 lin. sam 
5-7-nerved, glabrous, purplish ; : empty valves oblong or the lower 
obovate-oblong, truncate, mucronate, 5 lin. long, 5— T-nerved, strongly 
long; stigmas plumose. Lam. Illustr. t. 263, jig. 3 , a-g.; Thunb. 
Prodr. 188 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 336; Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soe: 
vz. 60, t. 4, fig. 9; Kunth, Enum. i. eT Prin: Phalar. 19; Steud. 
Syn. Pl. Glum, i. 6 ; Dar aad Sch nz, Consp. FL Afr. v. Sep 
Syst. vii. 1368; Neos, Fl Afr. Ansty. 200. “E. emula, Schra d. Le. 
: ata pon 
ourn. Phys. xiii. (1779) 225, t. 3; Beauv. Agrost. 62, 2, fig: 3, 
T’. spicata, Rich. ex Poir, Eneye. Suppl. ii. 542. 
ast ReGion: Cape Div. ; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 907! Lion Moura 
Puppe ! ! lower slopes of Lion Mountain, near Sea Point, Wolley Dod, 3532 + 
