i SSS SE 
Atropis. | GRAMINE& (Stapf), 717 
hase ; pales emerged ae keels ciliolate; anthers 3-1 lin. 
sé ng 
long ; grain 1 istans, vai mixta, Coss. in 
Coss ur. Hapl. Se ne Phan. 140; Durand § Schinz, Consp 
Fl. A ria Borreri, Babingt. in Engl. Bot. Suppl. t 
2797; Crépin, Man, Fl. Belg. ed. 2,347. Gt. Neesii, Steud. Syn. Pl 
Glum. 1. 286. Poa Borreri, Hook. & ‘Arn, Brit. Fl. ed. viii. 549. 
“gpg arenaria, Durand & poate lic. SS. arenaria, var, 
B*, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr, 381 (excl. syn.). S. multiculmis, subsp. 
“ii ‘baing in Engl. Bot. ed. 3, xi. 105, t. 1756. 
EGION: “Cape District,” Windvalley, on the dunes and in sandy 
fis, Bek in Ns pe West Div. ; Nieuwefeld, near Ganze Fontein, 3500 ft., 
wege 
ae! eTERN obi Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, near Ezelfontein, 
3500 ft., 
A native er Wester n Europe, along the coast of the Atlantic Bc on the 
Western shores of the Batten introduced (?) into North Am 
im not quite certain if Gussone’s Glyceria permivta from Sic iy i is ae same 
oi as ap assumes, as it is described as having fine, short, flaccid, subinvo- 
e 
A nici (Stapf); densely tufted; culms —— with 
Teter long-leaved intravaginal innovation shoots, 1 ft. long, 
erect, smooth, 1-noded near the base, terete above, ‘east compressed 
and slender below the ee sheathe d all along; leaves mostly 
crowded near the base, glabrous, glaucous; sheaths smooth, lower 
pallid or eituniel: brown, sonialeak uppermost lax, exceeding the 
base of the panicle, embraced below by the preceding two sheaths ; 
ligules up to fs lin. long, ovate ; blades very narrow, linear, acute, 
—4> in. by 4 lin. Sabah expanded), eran involute, POPE Ges 
v 
branches very unequal, in distant fascicles of about 5, finely filiform 
to capillary, scaberulous, the shortest 1—3- spiculate, sie eg up to 
3 in. long, bare for 1-3 in, ; lateral pedicels }—2 lin. long, adpressed ; 
spike, distant by about their own length, linear ts Tienes 
2-22 lin. long, loosely 3-5-flowered, pallid ; Sia oblong, with 
broad nyiline margins, "the lower over + lin. long, 1- to sub-3- ‘nerved, 
the upper up to 1 lin. long, 3-nerve ; valves ‘nigel y-oblong in 
profile, about 1 lin. long with a purple mark below the tips, minutely 
pales minutely 2-toothed, ee shortly ciliate; anthers } lin. long. 
Sclerochloa angusta, Nees, F. a Austr. 381 ; Durand § Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 911. 
vaey Reeion : Uitenhage Div. ; a saline places by the Zwartkops River, 
Ecklon 
The a tion is drawn from a specimen in the Litbeck Herbarium which is 
et aes a a loose label with ih inscription “728, Poa halophila, Sched. 
ieufeld. m. Dr 
Nieufe Drége, 1827.” sely cim with Nees’ 
description of Scleroehloa ap ble that eegrogeut the label has been mispl < 
in ——. or me that the specimen in question is Ecklon’s 
