674 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Ehrharta. 
the base ; fertile valve elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 1 lin. long, loosely 
pubescent, 1- (or very obscurely 3-5-) nerved ; pale: nerveless ; lodicules 
glabrous ; stamen usually 7 rarely 3 ; anthers 1 1 jin. long ; : ae 
brushlike ;_ grain = in. iong. unth, Enum. Pl. i. ; Trin 
Phalar, 23 ; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. Sy ae Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 7; 
Durand & gs Consp. Fl. Afr. v E. caly yeina, B, MB. in 
Herb. Thunber 
R. B, ee (Nees, l.c. end more sap mae ton Lape or minutely 
persion to villous; spikelets up to 2 lin sometimes rather 
ses the Ag oT valve eae seal om peat 1. E. brevifolia, 
a adscendens Se 
Sour ama: w without any locality, Thunbe 
oast REGION: Fc ury Div.; between Suk Kloof and Saldanha 
ad — 500 f.. Draje! pate tland and Paarde Berg, Ecklon. Uniondale 
nge Kloof, Bers sa Var. 8: Vanrhynsdorp ‘Div. ; sand hills near 
Bhyneze, below ave ® , Dre e! 
on: Var. Little etapa anes near the mouth of the 
Winco River, fine 600 .ft. yore 2563 ! 
A glabrous and robust state of this variety was collected by Drummond in the 
eens River oi aup: West Australia; it has probably been accidentally intro- 
uced the 
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17. E. pusilla (Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 22); culms tufted, 3-1 ft. 
long, geniculate, ascending, slender, glabrous, 2—3-noded ; sheaths 
lax or the upper tumid, glabrous, smooth ; ligules truncate, ni to 
y lin. long ; blades linear, acute or mucronate, 1_]1 in, y 1-1; lin, 
narrow, oblong, 1-2 in. long, sometimes reduced to a raceme, flaccid ; 
rhachis flexuous, filiform ; branches 2-3-nate, short, flexuous, capillary, 
smooth, 1-3- -spiculate ; ‘pedicels subelavate, scaberulous ; spikelets 
secund, nodding ; glumes su ubequal, lanceolate, acuminate, 2-3 lin. 
long, rete asi finely 7-nerved, glabrous, paar and i 
th 
subobtuse, 2-22 lin. long, delicately 7-nerved, scantily at ; 
ape eae atuinens 6; anthers 3 lin. long ; ; stigmas br’ 6: 
lik » Fl. Afr. Austr. 223 ; _ Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 6; 
Panwa é ‘fekins 7 ie Fl. Afr. v. 
AL Recion;: ¥raserburg Div.; between Klein Quaggas Fontein 24 
Haast River, Burchell, 1 1460! Lil 
= sTERN REG Gion: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof a Sine 
Font greeny t, Droge ! simcpar Baffels Speen River a 2 nga 
an ear Ookiep, Dréye! Hazenkraals River, _ , Dreg 
Bergen, Bitles. Mouth of ‘ae eso River, Ecklo 
18. E. calycina (Sm. PL. Te, Ined. t. 33) 5 perennial, tufted, 
rarely dilute > culm usually geniculate, slender, single 
scantily branched, 1-2 ft. ae smooth, pia » very rarely penn | 
villous below, 4 6-noded ; sheaths glabrous, ee 
