aie GRAMINEE ieee 685 
ae prostrate very alendak base, up to 1 ft. eit or more, i Aree 
ingly hairy all over ; sheaths tight, striate, rather thin ; ligules up 
b 
panicle linear, 8-12-spiculate, secund ; bra nehes up to 7 lin. ses 
about as long as the internodes, 3- -1-spiculate, erect, subcapillary, 
supported by ovate or oblong hyaline bracts, tips of p edicels minutely 
villous ; spikelets pallid, 3 lin. long, with 1 fertile floret ; glumes 
3 lin, long, hyaline margins very narrow; valves shorter than the 
Upper glume, fertile valve oblong, obtuse, almost Saale on the 
CenTRAL Re@ion: Graaff Reinet Div.; on sides below the summit of the 
Compass Berg, 8300-8500 ft., Bolus, 1985! 
- M. racemosa (Thunb. Prodr. 21); culms ascending from a 
usually long very slender wiry sometimes procumbent base, simple 
or branched below, 2-3 ft. Jong, glabrous, smooth or scabrid below 
the panicle, many-noded, internodes (except the uppermost) mostly en- 
closed ; leaves glabrous, scabrid, rather crowded above the base, the 
lowest more or less reduced ; sheaths tight, capa ‘iets up to 
1 lin. long; blades lines, tapering to a fine poi t, 3-6 in. long, 
2-1} lin. wide when expa nent sually convolute subglaucous ; 
panicle very narrow, 3-9 in ge, erect or ding, more or less 
Secund ; branches mostly cena ‘distant ene or suberect, branched 
or more often ss a nerorns to Bax sar flexuous, often much shorter 
than the internodes ; pedicels 3-12 lin. long, tips thickened, pubes- 
flowers 2 ; glumes unequal or subequal, 5-nerved, the lower hyaline, 
Ovate, acute, 3-3} lin. long, the upper oblong, firmer, acuminate, 
herves rather close and prominent, slightly seabrid, 33-43 lin. long; 
valves slightly exceeding or equalling the glumes, the fertile oblong, 
Obtuse or minutely truncate or emarginate, 7—-9-nerved, nerves rather 
prominent, seabrid, sides only hairy; hairs 2 lin. long; body of 
barren valves clavate, ¢ clabrous, scaberulous; anthers 1 lin. long; grain 
1-12 lin. long, semiter rete. Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 1, 417; ed. Schult. 
111; Kunth, Enum. i. 378; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v 
898. M. Ca eeegtea in Goett. Gel. Anz. ili. "as91) 2073, 
and in Schult. Mant i . 296; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 376; Nees in 
Linnea, vii, 327, and Fl. Afr. ‘Austr. 418 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 
289; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 896. 
Lions Head and Table oe wae 
Burchell, Sil nee te tales a Dod, 3107! East side of Table 
Mo ountain, near Tokay, Ecklon, Capetown, Harvey, 137! in and about Camps 
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