686 GRAMINES (Stapf). | Melica. 
Bay, dacag Dod, 3106! lower slopes of Smithwinkel Bay, Wolley Dod, 2977 | 
Riversdale Div. ; near the - ~ melks River, Burchell, 6631! Uitenhage Div. 
amo va daub on sand hills near the Ae sa River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 253! 
n n forest on Olifants ‘Toek, Port Elizabeth td near ort 
Elizabeth, Ecklon, E.S.C.A. Herb. a “Alexandr Div.; near Addo, in woods 
and grassy places, 1000-2000 ft., Drege Alban nS Div. ; hood Page one, 
1000-2000 ft., Drége! in the scrub near Brand Kraal, t., MacOwan, 
1282! in woods near pen si River, MacOwan, 705! Prone Fisher | ! King 
Williamstown Diy ola Mountains, Buchanan , 53! Komgha Div. ; near 
Komgha, Flanagan, ‘gat Slieiae Div.; in nounts ain woods, by the sources 
of the Kat River, a eae eat Cusemetiwt Div.; on rocks of 
00 ft., Dré 
CENTRAL REG1 Y Middelburg Div. ; between Compass Berg and Rhinoster 
Bergen, 4500-5000 it, Drége. 
Katanari REGION: oo Cooper, 335 
Hastern Recion: Tembuland ; "Ba azeia, at ve Krantz, 2000 ft., Bawr, 410! 
Griqualand East; moun are ies around Clydesdale, Tyson, 2863! Natal ; 
Berea, near Durban by the roadside, Wood, 3926! Merebank, near Durban, 
bok 7258! Vernon, Buchanan, 155! Weenen County, 4000 ft., Wood, 
Very like the Mediterranean M. ciliata, but sige in the rough leaves, 
the less acuminate upper glume and the more obtuse valve 
M. ovalis (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 417); culms aoe from a 
very slender, wiry base, simple, 2 ft. long, glabrous or ” slightly 
belied below the panicle, otherwise smooth, man nen internodes 
(except the lower) exserted ; leaves glabrous, aba; sheaths rather 
tight, striate ; ligule up to *% lin. long ; blades ee acute, 3 2-3 in. by 
4 “lin., con nvolute, rather rigid, e rect 5 supe linear, 2-5 in. long, 
O48 in. long, pie flexuous, the ower ae thd 
Consp. in. 4 ee 
Coast Reaion; ne Div.; Stormberg Range, 5000-6000 fi., Drége! 
rather rigid ; panicle reduced to a jones < 6-spiculate secund racem 
1-14 lin. long ; ; pedicels erect, es curved; spikelets ie 
22.3 lin. long, pallid; fertile florets 2; glumes subequal, bot 
scarious, the lower ovate, acute, up to 2 lin. long, the upper ee 
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