GRAMINEX (Stapf). [Ehrharta. 
glabrous, striate; ligule a line of hairs; blades linear from a 
clasping and sometimes ciliate base, long Sie to a fine point, up 
semi-whorls or pairs or solitary, unequal, up to % in. long, rarely 
longer, erect or spreading, 3—-1- (rarely to 7-) spiculate, subcapillary, 
glabrous ; pedicels up to 6 lin. long ; spikelets oblong, 33—4 lin. long ; 
glumes subequal, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-31 ‘lin. long, glab- 
rous, 5-nerved, often purplish ; lower empty valve linear-oblong, 
truncate, apiculate, exceeding the lower glume, scabrid to hispidulous 
) e keel, transversely rugose or not, bearded at the base 
in front and behind; upper empty valve similar, slightly longer and 
errower, mucronate, transversely rugose, rarely smooth, 
apiculate, ‘dabrous, 5-nerved, with a bed on robe side a the base ; 
lodicules ciliate, 3-3 lin. long ; stamens 6; anthers 13-23 lin. long; 
stigmas plumose. Trin. Phalar. 21; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 6; 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 792. E, Ottonis, Kunth, Rev. 
Gram. i. 9 (name only) ; Enum. i. 13; Suppl. 10, €. 2, fig. 2; Trin. 
fe. 20; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 201; Steud. lc. E. varicosa, Nees 
ex Trin. Le. ‘19; Nees, lc. 200; Steud. Lc. Durand § Schinz, 
ae noded ; blades ve y rigid, convolute or flat bal a be more pat 1 ir 
rong 5 panic cle up to to in. long, mo: mpound ; efeile 9 s 4-54 lin. long; 
glumes 43-4 shorter than the mad etree, the latter roel Bm rugose, 
etd and ists above 
Coast Reacion: Cape Div.; Table begin Ecklon, Bergius! Sim 
Bay, “Wright, 196! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, ‘Ecklon, cualechet, 
56 eRe Div. ; , Hottentots Holland, Ecklon ; a rege ! Pico u 
endal, ége! Var. B: Cape i Tok 
Piaitation, Wolley Dod, “ca! “lower slopes of Orange Kloof, Walley Dod, 
3343! Alban ny Div. ; near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 1294! 
rupestris (Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 25); perennial; culms 
ascending from a decumbent base, very slender r, almost woody, 
simple or almost so in the lower part, divided into short aggregate 
branches above, lower internodes pruinose ; leaves crowded, imbri- 
pruinose or almost rough, persistent ; ligules very short, } lin. long, 
woolly-eiliate ; blades folded, subulat e, obtusely keeled, pungent, 
1-13 in. by . (when meena), ‘rigid, "prominently nerved, 
densely EE on the upper surface, pruinose or almost rough 
below ; raceme erect, rigid, about 1 in. long ; oats wavy, glabrous ; 
pedicels erect, 1-11 Tin. | long, eae i spikelets 7-5, adpressed 
the thachis, broad-oblon 2-22 lin. long ; glumes subequal, 
ovate-oblong, gee obtuse, e a about 4 of the spikelet, thin, 
finely pruinose, v ry shortly ef une empty valves very unequal, 
