672 GRAMINER (Stapf). | Phrharta. 
gardens, Ecklon, 918! Mae moti ray, 398! Kloof hie the Lions Head a 
Table Mountain, Burchell, 256! Wynberg Park, Wolley Dod, 1886! W: eae 
Wilms, 3857! in ditches in 1 Sand Ros ad, Clar sd "ee Re 2384! Paarl 
a) Paa rl Mountains, iti rocks, 2000-8000 522! Worcester 
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2 
Ss endam Di 2 ‘near rootvi 
Bos oh; ze yher, 1515 Rivers ule a “between Kochmans Kloof and Guuritz 
River, pilin. ossel Bay Div.; dry ‘hills on the eastern side of Gauritz River 
Baia eanaja! rota Div. ; eer rge, in forests, Burchell, rela ! Uitenhage 
Div. ; under bushes by “the Zwartkops River, Ecklon S° Zey 186! Addo, 
Betton, Port Elizabeth Div. ; near Port Elizabeth, on oa ‘tills, E E.S.C.A 
soning gee ‘igen gt ae : ae in shady woods, 1500-2000 ft., Drage 
re 
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mgha anagan ek g eens Div 
woots be on ian (Fallowoa) River, 2000 # is 
RAL ReGton: Prince iv. Great aod Bergen, near Klaar- 
stroo’ m, 2000-3 000 ft., Drége ! pamrieete ; between the Zuurberg Range and 
Klein Brings, River, by shady brooks, 2000-30 00 ft., Drége? Bosch “Berg, 
Burche ny ec aaff Reinet Div . Klein Visch gras Ecklon (2); Albert 
Div.; S Se . in gorges, 5000-3000 ft., Drege! Aliwal North Div.; 
on the Witte or, Dré 
ARI  siecicaigle Orstige Free State ; ciara gta Rehmann, 3837! 
HasteErN Reeton: Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 411 Var r.(B; Natal Slair- 
mont, 50 ft., Wood, 7260 ! on the Drakens Bergen, near Pairs Buchanan, AT 
Umsinga and base of Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 94! Riet Vlei, Buchanan, 287 
In a slightly difterent form also in tropical East Africa as far as Abyss sinia, 
and (prob: ably introduced) i in tropical Arabia, the Mascarene Islands, i India. 
14. E. delicatula (Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 288); annual; 
culms tufted, geniculate, simple or branched below, up to by) ft. long, 
delicate, glal rous or minutely and reversedly hairy, 2 -3-node 
sheaths rather tight or loose, the lower finally slipping from t the 
culms, glabrous or hairy; ligules truncate, short; blades linear, 
tapering to a fine point, 1-41 in. by 1-82 lin., flat, ‘flaccid, scaberu- 
lous, minutely ee or glabrescent ; panicle narrow, 1-6 in. long, 
su Pee: loose; rhachis filiform, glabrous; branches in distant 
semi-whorls, seis ng, ‘vety unequa al, i to 2 in. long, simple oe 
in. long; empty valves ‘aerowy pn or stoemt e-oblong, sub- 
acuminate, peiarvok,: transversely rugose, scaberulous, beardless, the 
upper slightly longer and with 2 semicircular shield-shap 
appendages at the base ; fertile valve equalling the upper glume, 
elliptic-oblong ng, minutely truneate or subacute, scaberulous above, 
d-nerved; lodieules glabrous; stamens 3; anthers lin. gt 
stigmas ‘brush- like. E. panicea, var. cuspidata, Nees; Fl, Aft 
Au: str. 225 (var. mucronata, 226, by oo partly. 
RN Reaction: Little Necagasians, Vanrhynsdorp Divy.; near Mieren 
Kast, song ren sine 508 ! 
h Div.; Roodesand, Drege! Worcester Div. ; Hex 
River Valley. Wolter y ee reg ! wont 
Nees, Lc. 226, quote a var. mucronata” also from the following 
localities : Elleboog pc rattle Namaqualand), Ebenezer (Vanrhy nsdorp 
