408 Annals of the South African Museum. 



4. S. festivus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. F.C. 582, var. ? 

 Damaraland : Gaub (Dinter). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Throughout tropical Africa and South 

 Africa. 



5. S. fimbriatus, Nees. F.C. 585. 



Damaraland : among quartzite blocks in the Akam River bed, 

 Pearson, 4724 ! ; river bed between Nauchas and Areb, Pearson, 

 9030 ! ; Okahandja, edge of Cynodon-formation towards the river 

 bed (Dinter). 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : South Africa, from Uitenhage and Graaff 

 Reinet to the Transvaal (Lydenburg) and Natal. 



6. S. inconspicuus, Hack, in Vierteljahrsschs. Nat. Ges. Zurich, 



Ivii, 532 (1912). 

 Ovamboland : Ovakuanyama, Alma Kestila. 18, II, 1903. 



7. S. indicus, R. Br. Prodr. 170. 



Damaraland : Otavifontein, ace. to Heering and Grimme. Be- 

 tween Gobabis and Sandfontein, Gill-man, 16443 ! 



A wiry, tufted, and very strong grass which is usually found on 

 roadsides, old lands, and farmsteads, and spreads rapidly. It is 

 readily eaten by stock when young, but soon becomes too tough and 

 wiry, and is then usually avoided except in scarcity of other food. 



8. S. ioclados, Nees. F.C. 583. 



Namaqualand : in chalky places near Ltideritzbucht, 1400 m., 

 Range, 997 ! ; Western Karasberg, in the sandy bed of a watercourse 

 above Wasserfall Alt ravine, Pearson, 8478 ! 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : Cape Province, sporadically from Cal- 

 vinia to Colesberg and Uitenhage. 



9. S. lampranthus, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xlviii, 345 (1912). 

 Namaqualand : Bethany District ; Soromas, meadow-forming 



grass, 950 m., March, Range, 1263 ! ; Biillspoort on stony soil, Dinter, 

 2135 ! Damaraland : Karibib, Dinter, 2517 ! 



10. S. marginatus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 



Namaqualand : with Eragrostis stenothyrsa, the only two grasses in 

 Hoachanas, nr. Kl. Nuaus, Dinter, 1967 ! 



11. S. nebulosus, Hack, in Engl. Jahrb. xi, 402 (1889). 

 Damaraland : Haikamchab, old river bed, Pearson, 502 ! ; Marloth, 



1208 ; Great Barmen, Voigtsgrund, ace. to Heering and Grimme. 



