394 Annals of the South African Museum. 



31 ! Olukonda, Rautanen, 84. Damaraland : Gaub (Dinter) ; on red 

 loam and sand at Tsumeb (Dinter), 84. 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Abyssinia. 



5. S. verticillata, Beauv. F.C. 429. 



Damaraland : In bed of stream at Windhuk, Gillman, 16451 ! ; 

 Grab (Heering), Namutoni, Barnard, 16507!; Okahandja, Dinter, 

 1626 ! Namaqualand : Soromas Vlei, 1000 m., flowering April, 

 Range, 665 ; Kuibis on cultivated ground, Range, 660 ! Ovamboland : 

 N. of Ondonga (Ovakuayama), Rautanen, 1 (1906). 



A useless annual naturalised weed tangles wool of sheep and goats. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Throughout Africa and India to Malaya. 

 Elsewhere (Europe, Australia, America) only as a weed. 



6. S. viridis, Beauv. Agrost. 51. 

 (ambigua, Guss.) 



Damaraland: Hereroland, Hoffner, 114c. 



ix. TRICHOLAENA, F.C. 441 ; F.T.A. 16. 



1. T. brevipila, Had-. F.C. 445. 

 Namaqualand : Gamoxab, Schinz, 631. 



2. T. monachyron, Olw. in Hook. Icon. pi. xxv (1895), t. 2374. 

 Ovamboland : Cunene banks, Great Falls, and other localities, 



growing 1 to 2 ft. high, flowering March, Barnard, 78 ! 



3. T. rosea, Nees. F.C. 443. 



Ovamboland : grass veld round Andoni, Barnard, 16490 ! ; Kachipu, 

 near Cunene banks, Barnard, 35 ! ; Onolongo, grass -steppe, Barnard, 

 33 ! ; Cunene banks, Barnard, 36 ! Namaqualand : Eastern 

 Karasberg, sandstone cliffs, Narudas Slid, Pearson, 8513 ! Damara- 

 land : between Gobabis and Sandfontein, Gillman, 16441 ! ; Sand- 

 fontein, Bleek, 16478 ! ; Gaub (Dinter) ; Kamelbaumbusch, on stiff 

 loam near Ovikokorero ; forming pasture to the exclusion almost of 

 anything else in thorn bush of Swakop (Dinter) ; Okakueyo, Dinter, 

 3331 ! Found plentifully on roadsides and old lands ; it makes 

 good hay. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : South and tropical Africa, Madagascar 

 and South Arabia. 



4. T. setifolia, Stapf. F.C. 442. 



Ovamboland : Namakunde, Barnard, 34 ! Damaraland : Awas 

 Mts., 12 km. E. of Windhuk, on quartzite slopes, Pearson, 9798 ! 

 Namaqualand : N. of Choaberib, in dry stream bed, Pearson, 9412 ! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Cape, Transvaal, Griqualand West, Natal. 



