402 Annals of the South African Museum. 



The so-called " Toa grass '' of travelling merchants of Namaqualand, 

 valued as fodder. 



11. A. Engleri, Mez in Fedde Repert. xvii, p. 147. 

 Namaqualand : Kuibis, Engler, 6371. 



12. A. garubensis, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xlviii, 344 (1912). 

 Namaqualand : Gravelly and rocky places, Garub, 900 m., Oct., 



Range, 508 ! 536 ! ; granitic rocks near Llideritzbucht, 800 m., Oct., 

 Range, 1069 ! 



13. A. gonatostaehys, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xlviii, 343 (1912). 

 Namaqualand : Rotekuppe, 400 m., Jan., Range, 188 ; sandy places 



near Liideritzbucht, 600 m., Sept., Range, 1177; Namib, in sand, 

 Dinter, 1022. 



14. A. geminifolia, Trin. and Rupr. F.C. 570. 



Namaqualand : S. of Obib, 500 m., Aug., Range, 586 ! ; gravelly 

 places near Liideritzbucht, 500 m., Sept., Range, 1874 ! ; between 

 Kalkfontein and Nakob, in sandy places, Pearson, 9709 ! ; Halusberg, 

 Dinter, 4099 ! 



15. A. Hermanni, Mez in Fedde Repert. xvii, p. 153. 

 Angra Pequenas (Hermann), 



16. A. hirtigluma, Steud. in Syn. PI. Glum, i, 144. 

 Namaqualand : sandy places near Gibeon, 1000 m., April, Range, 



1327 ! ; dunes near S. Kalahari and Elephant River near Gibeon, 

 1200 in., May, Range, 1434 ! : Fish River, sandstone near Gibeon, 

 1200 m., April, Range, 1408 ! : on stony soil at Bullsport, Dinter, 

 2136 ! Damaraland : Tsumeb, Dinter, 3310 ! ; Okaharui, Dinter, 

 2074! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Arabia and Syria, N. and N.E. Africa. 



17. A. Hochstetteriana, Beck ex Hack. F.C. 571. 

 Namaqualand : sandy places near Gibeon, 1000 m., April, Range, 



1328a ! ; near Gibeon, Fish River, sandstone, 1200 m., April, Range, 

 1415 ! ; common along shallow stream courses 12 km. W. of Sand- 

 verhaar, Pearson, 4605 ! ; Haikamchab, Galpin and Pearson, 7435 ! 

 7594; Quartel, near Reheboth, Dinter, 2172 ! ; on granite 114 km. 

 from old railway ?, Dinter, 2820 ! ; Luderitz, 66. 



Good fodder grass, but not widely distributed in sandy places, 

 apparently scattered and rare. 



18. A. hordacea, Kunth. Rev. Gram, ii, t. 173. 

 Damaraland : Tsumeb (Dinter). 



