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P APPOPHOREAE 

 Schmidtia bulbosa Stapf in Dyer, FL Cap. 7: 658. 1900. 



Antoschmidtia bulbosa (Stapf) Peter, Repert. Sp. Nov. Beih. 40 1 : 307. 1931; Bremekamp 

 & Obermeyer, Ann. Transv. Mus. 16: 405. 1935. 



Chikwawa District: Chikwawa, frequent in Acacia woodlands, 200 m., October 

 3, 1946, 17909. Tanganyika Territory, southwards to South Africa. 



The name Schmidtia Steud. (1852) is illegitimate, being a later homonym of 

 Schmidtia Moench (1802) and Schmidtia Tratt. (1816), for which reason the name 

 Antoschmidtia Steud. ex Boiss. (1884) has been used in its place on a few occa- 

 sions in recent years. Because of its very extensive use in floras, etc., Schmidtia 

 Steud. "was recommended for conservation by M. L. Green (Kew Bull. 1935: 479), 

 this proposal being accepted by the special committee appointed by the 6th Inter- 

 national Botanical Congress, Amsterdam, 1935 (see Sprague, Kew Bull. 1940: 90). 



ERAGROSTEAE 



Bewsia biflora (Hack.) Goossens, S. Afr. Jour. Sci. 37 : 184. 1941. 



Diplachne biflora Hack. Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 387. 1895; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 

 593. 1900. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, occasional in Brachystegia woodland, 

 1400 m., August 4, 1946, 17127. Tanganyika Territory, southwards to Natal and 

 Orange Free State. 



Eragrostis arenicola C. E. Hubbard, Kew Bull. 1949: 345. 1949. 



Species af finis E. ciliari (L.) R.Br., sed inflorescentiis elobatis erectis rigi- 

 dioribus plerumque latioribus et laxioribus, spiculis et lemmatibus paullo majori- 

 bus, lemmatis carinis* eciliatis, fructu plerumque majore anguste ovoideo vel 

 ovoideo-oblongo differt. 



Gramen annuum, 15-45 cm. altum. Culmi laxe vel dense fasciculati, vel soli- 

 tarii, erecti vel geniculato-ascendentes, graciles vel gracillimi, teretes, 1-5- 

 nodes, e nodis inferioribus ramosi, vel simplices, glabri, laeves, infra nodos 

 glandium epidermalium parvularum annulo praediti, internodio supremo plerumque 

 longissimo e vagina superiore longe exserto. Foliorum vaginae internodiis demum 

 breviores, striatae, saepe purpurascentes, pilis e tuberculis minutis ortis sparse 

 pilosae vel marginibus apicem versus saepe ciliatis exceptis glabrae, ore laxe et 

 transverse barbatae; ligulae ad seriem ciliorum brevissimorum redactae; laminae 

 linearis, in acumen setaceum longe attenuatae, 3-15 cm. longae, 2-6 mm. latae, 

 planae vel siccitate superne involutae, virides vel glaucae, minute et obscure sca- 

 berulae, ore pilis longiusculis laxe barbatae, ceterum glabrae. Panicula lineari- 

 oblonga vel anguste oblonga vel lanceolata, contracta et densa, vel laxiuscula, 

 4-22 cm. longa, 0.5-2.5 cm. lata, erecta, purpurea, vel purpureo- et pallide viridi- 

 variegata, vel viridis; rhachis et rami minute scaberuli, glabri vel nodis sparse 

 pilosi; rami gracillimi, angulati, erecti vel leviter patentes, plerumque solitarii, 

 dense vel laxiuscule spiculati, usque 4 cm. longi; pedicelli inaequales, 0.6-2 mm. 

 longi, scaberuli. Spiculae oblongae vel late ovato-oblongae, 2.5-4 mm. longae, 1.5 

 -2.5 mm. latae, 6-12-florae; rhachilla supra glumas et inter anthoecia articulata, 

 internodiis glabris 0.2-0.3 mm. longis. Glumae paullo inaequales, explanata 

 lanceolato-oblongae vel oblongae vel ovatae, acutae, carinatae, 1-nerves, tenuiter 

 membranaceae, carina scaberulae; inferior 1-1.6 mm. longa; superior 1.3-2 mm. 

 longa. Lemmata imbricata vel demum contigua, explanata late oblonga vel oblongo- 

 elliptica, apice rotundato-truncata, 1.3-1.5 mm. longa, membranacea, prominenter 

 3-nervia, nervis minute scaberula, glabra. Paleae lemmatibus paullo breviores, ob- 

 longae, truncatae vel truncato-emarginatae, carinis ciliis patentibus usque 0.7 mm. 



