Ehrharta.] GRAMINE# (Stapf). 675 
pubescent, rather tight ; ligules very short, truncate, denticulate, 
ciliate ; blades linear from a clasping, often denticulate and ciliate 
base, long and gradually tapering or shortly acute, rarely subobtuse, 
1-4 in. by 1-3 lin., flaccid or rigid, flat or involute ee 
av 
seabrid ; panicle very narrow, nodding, 3- 9 ba subsecund ; 
thachis flexuous, smooth; branches in Hist semiwhorls, very 
unequal, the longest rarely more than 1 in. long, simple or scantily 
branched, spreading or erect, subcapillary, flexuous, smooth ; spike- 
tats pallid, apts purplish, oblong, 21-3 lin. long; glumes subequal, 
harrow-oblong, acute or subobtuse, 7 -nerved ; j em npty valves unequal, 
loosely villous, the lower very narrow, hinear-oblong, acute, as long 
as the lower glume or shorter, sub-5- nerved, shortly. bearded sf the 
base in front, the upper oblong, obtuse, aracronake (mucro up to 
r lo 
2 large semilunar appendages at the bas hehe ee fertile "valve 
oblong, obtuse, slightly shorter than the upper empty v ve, 
glabrous or scantily hairy, obseurely 5—7-nerved ; lodicules glabrous ; 
stamens 6; anthers 11 lin. long; stigmas brush- like ; 3 grain 
13 lin. long. Thunb. Prodr, 188; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 335; 
Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soe. vi. 53, t. 4, fig. 5; Schrad, tn Schult, 
r rand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 791. E. genieulata, Thunb. Prodr. 192; 
Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 336 ; Sw. lc. 55, t. 4, fig. 6; Sehrad. l.c., and 
in Schult f. $e. 1373 : Kunth, lic. ; Steud. le. ; Durand Schinz, 
Le. 792. “E. paniculata, Poir. Encye. Suppl. ii, 542 (by error). 
EE. adscendens, Schrad. lc. E. laxiflora, Schrad. /.c. 2078, and in 
Schult. J. le. 1373; Kunth, lic. ; Steud. lc. ; Durand § Schine, lie. 
792. Ht aurieulata, ers in Flora, 1829, 491. . ovata, Nees in 
Linnea, vii. 336 ; Fl. Afr. Austr. 203; Kunth, Le.; Steud. Syn. 
Glum. i. 7 
J; Suppl. 108. Melica geniculata, Thunb. Prodr. 21. M. festu- 
coides, Lichtenst. ex Trin. Phalar. 24. Trochera calycina, Beauv. 
— 62, #. 12, fig. 4 
R. 8, versicolor (Stapf) ; densely so — —_ usually 14-3 ft. 
ng, rigid ; le (Sia olute, rigid, up to 1 ft. spikelets 3-44 er" 
long, acu , the lower y valve slightly Pesating the lower glume; tips 0 
pper empty valve almost acute, mucronate, excveding pper g 
Vin or iene healed \ Schrad. in Goett. Gel. Anz. iii, (1821) 2078, and in 
chult. f. Syst. vii. 1874; Kunth, En si 14 Brin 8, 
Afr. Austr, 213; Steud.’ Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 6; Durand § Schinz, Cons. Fi. 
Ajr. v. 794, Ev atricta, Nees ex Trin. l.c.; Nees, a. “O14; Steud. lc 
& Schinz, Le 
lity, Thunberg/! Mund & M 
¢ yano Yara cg ee ; ; Eben ezer, ‘st the Olifants Tear, hig 
: m Div.; Wu thal 1500-2 Drége. almesbury Div. ; 
Riebeks Kasteel, Peon Cape Diy.; Lion Mountain, Ecklon, 909! ara 
a pal the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell, 255! common on 
Head, Wol lley Dod, 8528! (a state with setaceous leaves) ; saddle of 
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