Ehrharta.] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 679 
base; lodieules glabrous; stamens 6; anthers 13 lin. long; stigmas 
short, p plumose. Nees, Fl. Afr. ustr, 207 (in “part) ; Steud. ‘Syn. 
v. 791 (in part). E. ramosa, Trin. Phalar. 25, and in. Mém. Acad. 
a sér. 6, v. 71 (in part); Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 205 (in 
#2). 
Var. B, naa ae leno 2 big: % ft. high; branches fascicled, very 
numerous, asce , divide : e divisions (flow i branches) about 2 in. 
long; sheaths ee short, 0 ig or almost so; panicles almost reduced 
Me racemes, about 1 i x les ers and pedicels guccias 3 spikelets 24-24 lin 
ong. 
Coast Re@ion : Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Giftberg, 1500-2500 ft., Drége! Cape 
Div. ; Table Mountain, Beaton, 914 partly! hag zed ast *Bacshall, 513! 
MacGitioray, 392! MacOwan, , Herb. Aust. Afr., 2! Simons Bay, Wright! 
Paarl Mountains, 1000-1500 ft., he | *Tolbngh Div.; Tulbagh 
Waterfall, Walon &¥ Zeyher! Worcester Div.; Bains Kloof, 2800 ft., 
Schlechter, 9180! Caledon Div. 3; Genadendal, i the fp of the mountains, 
ae a es rae £ Zuurb oe Range, between Enon and Drei Fontein, 
ar. B: re Div. ; ae of sabiittaite of Buaviaans 
Kloor near Gonnsonad Mie chell, 772 
The variet y B fase key seems to eon a vee a state E. aphylla or 
of E. ramosa, probably due to the conditions of habitat. I have placed it with 
£. a on account A ‘the: rae r culms and the eto by long glumes ; 
hs are f HE. ramosa. The pasate rhachis and pedicels 
distinguish j it from het E. “aphgila, as well as EZ. 7 
Pui E. aphylla, Other specimens which he enumerates under E. ramosa, 
which I have not seen, ma y be E. ramosa, “E. Rehmannii or E. aphylla ; 
ae _ 
Ast Region: Clanwilliam Div.; Ezelsfontein, Drege. Tulbagh Div.; 
sonnets Berg, 800-5000 ft., Ecklo n. Caledon Div.; Caledon, Ecklon. 
Zwart Berg, Dr . Swellendam Div.; Cannaland, Ecklon. Riversdale Div. 
Kochmanns Kloof 2 Ganrits River, Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; Van Sta ae 
Berg, 3000 ft., 
Drég 
WEsTERN pairs Little Namaqualand ; Rood Berg, 4500-5000 ft., Drege. 
23. E. barbinodis (Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 20); perennial ; culms 
geniculate, aseending, 11-2 ft. long, a smooth, many-noded, 
lower internodes short, Wppermioat up to 1 ft. long ; sheaths tight, 
acistug to a fin ne point, up to 14 in. a 12 lin., rather firms, flat, 
glabrous or cently hairy, margins scabrid ; panicle narrow, linear, 
erect, 3 in. long, way reduced to a raceme, loose ; rhachis pers 
branches in rather distant semiwhorls or pairs, unequa al, up to } in. 
long, usually les meroas | capillary, flexuous, glabrous ; ; spikelets 
ovate-oblong, 43-6 lin. long ; glumes ovate to lanceolate a 
vps sometimes vile. ‘the lower 23-34 lin. long, 5~7-n 
r 33-4 lin., 7-9-nerved; lower e mpty valve Bike cilong, 
obliquely truncate, mucronate, 31-42 lin. long, strongly compressed, 
