404 Annals of the South African Museum. 



Elephant River, 1200 m., May, Range, 1440 ! ; near Liideritzbucht, 

 90 m., April, Range, 1560 ! ; sandy places near Schakalskuppe, 

 1500 m., March, Range, 1780 ; near Liideritzbucht, 400 m., Sept., 

 Range, 1897 ! Central and Eastern Karasberg : on sandy plains, 

 Krai Kluf t, Pearson, 8494 ! ; among granite blocks in ravine, Narudas 

 Slid, Pearson, 8498 ! ; sandy plains N.E. of Narudas Slid, Pearson, 

 8146 ; Gorup, Pearson, 4197 ! ; North of Raman's Drift, Pearson, 

 4009, 4053 ! ; Schakalskuppe, Pearson, 4778 ! ; between Gamis and 

 Bulls Mouth Pass, in bed of Great Fish River, Pearson, 8939 ! ; Little 

 Karas Mts., western foothills near Holoog, in sandy river bed, Pearson, 

 9725 ! ; at Kubib on vlei ground, Pearson, 9492 ! 9496 ! ; between 

 Choaberib and Gurumanas, in dry stream bed, Pearson, 9598 ! ; 

 Daunabis, Pearson, 6006 ! Hereroland : Nels, 72. 



Very good fodder grass. Characteristic grass of sandy stretches. 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Coast, Central, Western, Kalahari 

 Regions, N. Africa. 



24. A. prodigiosa, Welw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii (1869), 80. 

 Namaqualand : Liideritzbucht, Schinz, 663 ; on Nautilus peak, 



Schinz, 664. Ovambolancl : Olukonda, Schinz, 649. 

 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Mossamedes. 



25. A. pungens, Desf., Fl. atlant. i (1798), t, xxxv, p. 109. 

 Namaqualand : Aus, Schenck, 171 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Egypt, Nubia, Turkestan, and Siberia. 



26. A. Rangei, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xlviii, 344 (1912). 

 Namaqualand : Kuibis, quartz rocks, 1400 m., May, Range, 647 ! ; 



rocky places, district Bethany, 1600 m., March, Range, 1270 ! 



27. A. rigidiseta, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. li, 413 (1914). 

 Damaraland : between Okahandja and Otjisaru, Dinter, 2535 ; 



Okahandja (Grossert), Dinter, 1551 ; Omuramba and Omataka, 

 Seiner, 691 a ; in Omaheke Island at Okaharui (Dinter). 



28. A. sabulicola, Pilgerin Engl. Jahrb. xl, 81 (1907). 

 Namaqualand : Elymus, 200 m., Jan., Range, 174 ! ; Covinberg, 



Jan., Range, 179 ! 209 ! ; Kuisib, Gurich, 119-122. 



Damaraland : dunes near Rooebank and Walfish Bay, Schultz, 379. 



29. A. Schaferi, Mezin. Fedde Repert. xvii, p. 152. 

 Namaqualand : near Pomona (Schafer). 



30. A. sieberiana, Trin. F.C. 560. 



Namaqualand : Gibeon ; sandy places near Uriab near Kalkfontein 

 Nord, 1200 m., May, Range, 1431 ! 



