678 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [Ehrharta. 
paired or fascicled, unequal, the longest 1—1 in. long, 3—1-spiculate ; 
pedicels puberulous, scabrid, 1-3 lin. long; spikelets erect, oblong, 
3-31 lin. long; glumes equal, usually distinctly shorter than the 
spikelet, lanceolate-oblong, acute, glabrous, pallid, 5- to sub-9-nerved ; 
yarren valves very similar, oblong, obtuse or truncate with usually 
purplish tips, scabrid, lower slightly shorter, narrower, 7-nerved, with 
a callous ridge and a minute beard at the base, upper often minutely 
cuspidate, 7- to sub-11-nerved, sometimes obscurely transversely rugose 
with a large semilunar appendage and a short beard on each side of 
the base; fertile valve subobliquely oblong, truncate, intermediate 
in length between the 2 preceding valves, glabrous, 7-9-nerved, with 
a knob on each side of the base; lodicules glabrous; stamens 65 
stigmas short, plumose. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 335; Sw. im 
Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 49, t. 3, fiy. 3; Schrad. in Goett, Gel. Anz. 11. 
(1821) 2077, and in Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1370; Kunth, Enum. Pts 1. 
12; Trin. Phalar. 25, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, v. 71 (am 
part); Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 205 (in part); Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
i. 7; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 798. E. digyna, Thunb. 
Prodr. 192. 
Coast Recion: Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000-4000 ft., Drége / Swel- 
ndam Div.; on a p near Swellendam, Burchell, 7312! Riversdale Div.; 
Zoetemelks River, Thunberg ! lower part of the Lange Bergen, near Kampsche 
Berg, Burchell, 7011! Knysna Div.; Plettenberg Bay, Mund Maire! 
Uitenhage Div.; by a rivulet between Leadmine River and Van Stadens River, 
Burchell, 4648! 
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appendage and a short beard on each side of the base ; fertile valve 
subobliquely oblong, truncate, intermediate in length between . 
preceding valves, glabrous, 7-nerved with a knob on each side of the 
