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THE FLORA OF THE GREAT KARASBERG 
Eragrostis curvula, Nees. Central Karasberg. Summit Scharfenstein, 
8476. 
Eragrostis Lehmanniana, Nees. Eastern Karasberg. Among granite blocks 
in ravine, Narudas Sud, 8477. 
Eragrostis chloromelas, Steud. Eastern Karasberg. Sand in river-bed, 
Narudas Slid, 8336. 
Eragrostis porosa, Nees. Central Karasberg. Among stones on bank of dr} T 
stream channel on plains south-west of Krai Kluft, 8479. 
Eragrostis bicolor, Nees. Great Karasberg. 8480. 
Eragrostis Atherstonei, Stapf. Eastern Karasberg. Among stones on river- 
bank, Narudas Slid, 8305. 
Eragrostis heteromera, Stapf. Western Karasberg. Moist patch of gravel in 
lateral ravine 100 ft. above Wasserfall Alt, 8481. 
Eragrostis denudata, Hack. Central and Eastern Karasberg. Sandstone 
plateau on summit of Long Hill, east of Krai Kluft, 8482. Stony 
flats south of Keiap R. at Narudas Sud, 8317. 
Eragrostis karasbergensis, Bol. f., n.sp., E. majori proxime accedit, sed perennis, 
multi-nodia, copiose ramosa, glumis marginibus integerrimis. 
Herba perennis; culmi geniculato-adscendentes vel suberecti, 
graciles, teretes, rigidi, copiose ratnosi, glabri, laeves, multi-nodii, 
plus minusve exserti, 0 - 37 — 0'40 met. alti; foliorum vaginae laxae, 
nervoso-striatae, saepissime marcescentes, direptae, demum a culmis 
delapsentes, plus minusve glandulosae, minute ciliatae, inferiores 
paucis longis pilis, superiores saepissime magis dense barbatae, aliter 
glabrae ; ligula e linea capillorum brevium composita ; laminae 
lineares vel lineari-lanceolatae, tenuissime setaceo-attenuatae, planae, 
valde robuste nervoso-striatae, supra scaberulae, infra laeves, saepissime 
marginibus glandulosis, subglaucae, 4 — 14 cm. longae, 02 — 0'45 cm. 
latae ; panicula ovata vel oblonga, sublaxa, axi subtereti, subflexuoso, 
superne scabrido, inferne laevi, 7 — 11*5 cm. longa, 3 - 5 — 7‘5 cm. lata, 
ramis plerumque solitariis, subdistantibus, erecto-patentibus, vel 
superiores plus minusve porrectis, firrnis, subflexuosis, inferne laevibus, 
superne scabridis, interdum axillis incrassatis, pilis paucis donatis, 
infimis ad 6 cm. longis, simplicibus ad 0'3 — 1'2 cm. supra basin ; 
pedicel li parum infra apicem viscoso-annulati, scabridi, angulares, 
lateralibus 0T — 0‘4 cm. longis ; spiculae oblongae vel ovales, 5 — 18-fl., 
0’3 — 0‘95 cm. longae, 0 - 25 — 0'32 cm. latae; glumae subaequales, 
ovatae, obtusae, dimidio superiore carinis scaberulis, inferior 1-, superior 
3-nervia, 0T5 cm. longae; valvae lateraliter visae ovatae vel oblongae, 
obtusae, nervis lateralibus prominentibus, 0'17 cm. longae; paleae 
valvis vix breviores, leviter apice emarginatae, carinis minute scaberulis 
vel ciliolatis; antherae lineares, 0T cm. longae. 
