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scaberulæ, glaucæ, rigidulæ. Panicula ovali-oblonga ad 30 cm longa 
effusa decomposita, rhachi lævi ad nodos inferiores barbata, ramis verti- 
cillatis (usque ad 7 in verticillo) fere capillaribus scabris ad 12 cm longis 
basi nudis, ab '/ı v. '/s repetite ramulosis, versus apicem spiculas subcon- 
gestas breviter pedicellatas ferentibus. Spiculæ anguste lineares, multi- 
floræ (e. gr. 16-floræ 9 mm lg. 1 mm It), plumbeo-virides, glabræ, flo- 
ribus laxe dispositis sese invicem vix ad !/« longitudinis tegentibus rha- 
chilla persistente glabra v. scabro-ciliolata. Glumæ steriles fertiles 
longitudine subæquantes sed ab iis subremotæ, facile deciduæ, 1-nerves, 
læves; fertiles oblongæ, obtusæ, 1,5 mm longæ, obtuse carinatæ, nervis 
lateralibus haud prominentibus, læves, in '/ı superiore albo-membrana- 
ceæ. Palea glumam æquans, oblonga, obtusa, carinis scabra. Antheræ fere 
1 mm longæ. 
Deutsch-Südwest-Afrika (Hereroland) Tsoachaub, Dinter 98. 
Südost-Afrika : Boruma am Sambesi, Menyhart. 
Affinis E. virescenti Presl, quæ differt radice annua, spiculis longius- 
cule pedicellatis oblongo-linearibus, glumis fertilibus acutis, nervis late- 
ralibus prominulis. 
Eragrostis (Sect. Platystachya) auriculata HACK. 
Perennis, cæspitosa, innovationibus partim intravaginalibus, partim 
extravaginalibus, his basi squamis flaccidis glabris v. villosulis cinctis. 
Culmi erecti ad 30 cm alti, binodes, glaberrimi, simplices. Vaginæ tere- 
tiusculæ, aretæ, internodis breviores, præter os barbatum glaberrim&. 
Ligula brevis, ciliata. Laminæ lineares v. lanceolato-lineares sensim acu- 
minat®, planæ, ad 20 cm lg. 3—6 mm It., subtus glaberrimæ, supra sca- 
berulæ, glaucæ, patentes, rigidulæ, crassinerves, subtus versus margines 
glandulis poriformibus conspersæ. Panicula ovato-oblonga, 5—16 cm Ig., 
interrupta, rhachi glaberrima, ramis solitariis distantibus, patentibus, a basi 
ad apicem spiculis ita dense obsitis ut spicas densifloras I—4 cm longas 
v. glomeros mentiant, a basi ramulosi, ramulis 3—6-spiculatis glomeri- 
formibus. Spiculæ subsessiles, patentes, dense imbricatæ, ovales, obtusæ, 
densissime 9—13-floræ, 4—6 mm Ig., pallidæ v. plumbeo-virides, gla- 
bræ, rhachilla fragili. Glumæ steriles subæquales, ovatæ, eximie acumi- 
nal, fertiles contiguos æquantes, inferior 1-superior 3-nervis, carina 
sæpius subglandulosa ; glum& floriferæ latissime ovatæ, basi subcordatæ, 
2 mm Ig., a latere visæ acutæ (explanatæ acutiusculæ), acute carinatæ, 
carina superne glandulis poriformibus (paucis vel raro nullis) obsita, 
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