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Ehrharta. | GRAMINEH (Stapf). 681 
VaR. y, stenophylla Stapf): ols sobbnloge and densely covered with 
imbrieate bladeless ws at the type, 2-3 ft. high, slender, 
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hard, 4-6-noded, bra Pale or ives’ tae base branches long, erect, like the 
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main culm; lower sitian purplish; blades very narrow, setaceo usly con= 
os 1-6 in. long ; ieee 44-54 lin. long ; ue few-nerved, upper 3-4 lin, 
ng. 
South A¥rrica: without pee ee orgie 
Coast aeynonhs evi : Ma ury Div.; ae ” Ri ebecks Castle, among 
shrubs, 500-10 » Drive. Var. Ke Ta ulbagh Div. ; 5 Tutbagh Water ull, 1200 ft., 
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foe Div. ; nthe Ceder nga n, near 2 ie elsbank, 3500 fr t. (Drege) : Cape 
Div., near Danaea, Ecklon) ; and Stellenbosch Div. ; Hottentots Ringe i 
(Ecklon). The description of the spikelets of “ Aira villosa” by Linn f. is 
altogether faulty and misleading ; bu t a note in Thunberg’s herbarium leaten no 
doubt that he meant Ehrharta gigantea, Thu re 
25. E. villosa (Schult. f, Syst. vii. 1374) ; perennial ; innoyation- 
buds pistes slender, only the basal scales fugaciou sly tom near ; 
culms geniculate, aseending from an often decumbent and r g 
base, up to 3 ft. lo ong, slender, hard, perfectly smooth and ane 
5-8- noded, branched below, beanuhies long and like the main culm ; 
Sheaths sthes firm, loweet bladeless, “puberulous or tomen ntose, 
glabrescent, AG: leng th aap? ee vithering away, thereby laying 
eer oal ovate-oblong, 5-6 lin. long; glumes subequal, oblong, acute, 
~52 lin. long, scarious, pallid, rarely purple, glabrous 8h i at t 
valves, subcoriaceous, 7-nerved, villous ; pale, ee and anthers 
as in H. gigantea. Nees in Linnea, vii. 3 Fil. Afr. Austr. 213 ; 
Trin. Phalar. 16, and in Mém. Acad. Pitersh. ser. i vy. 62; 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 5; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 
794. E. gigantea, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 491. 
Var. 8, maxima (Stapf) ; culms stouter; sheaths somewhat looser; panicle 
