400 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Very common throughout the Mediterranean region to India, 

 introduced into most warm countries. 



ii. AGROSTIS, F.C. 545; F.T.A. 18. 



2. A. Bergiana, Trin. F.C. 547. 



Namaqualand : Kuibis, on cultivated ground, July, Range, 643 ! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Coast Region, Eastern Kalahari, also in 

 St. Helena. 



STIPEAE. 

 i. ARISTIDA, F.C. 551 ; F.T.A. 18. 



1. A. adscensionis, Linn. F.C. 554. 



Ovamboland : Cunene banks, Barnard, 41 ! ; Namaqualand : 

 Kuibis, quartz rock, 1400 m., May, Range, 652 ! ; Bethany District, 

 black sand at Kunab, 1300 m., April, Range, 1007 ! ; Fish River, sand- 

 stone at Kainuchas near Gibeon, 1200 m., April, Range, 1399 ! ; sandy 

 places near Schakalskuppe, 1500 m., March, Range, 1779 ! ; Great 

 Karasberg, Pearson, 8493 ! ; Grundoorn, Pearson, 3129 ! ; sandy 

 grass-steppe at Eahero, Dinter, 3406 ! ; in Aristida-steppe near 

 Quartel (Dinter). 



Common in most dry and hot countries. 



A. adscensionis, L. var. coerulescens (Trin. et Rupr.), Dur. et 

 Schinz, Consp. v (1894), p. 799. 



Damaraland : in low plains near Otjimbingue, Marloth, 1379. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Africa, with the exception of the 

 Sudan ; also in Asia and Australia. 



2. A. alopecuroides, Hack, in Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brand, xxx 



(1888). 

 Ovamboland : Olukonda, Schinz, 656. 



2a. A. altissima, Arech. in Anal. Mus. Montevid. iv, i, 80. 



Damaraland : Eahero, on stiff sandy loam, March, Dinter, 3281 ! 

 (very near A. adscensionis, Linn.). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Uruguay. 



3. A. barbicollis, Trin. and Rupr. F.C. 559. 



Damaraland : on sandy plateau between Hofinungsfelde and Haris, 

 Pearson, 9542. 



A hard, wiry, and practically useless grass. 



