112 AJhnnij Musfiim Records. 



On some South African Grasses in the Herbariutn of the All)any 

 Museimi. By Prof. E. Hackkl, S. Polten, Austria, 



Poa lieterogama. Hack., n. sp. 



Perennis, caespitosa, innovationil)US intravaginalibus. Cuhiii 

 erecti, gracillimi, circ. 35 cm. alti, compressi, ghiberrimi, superne 

 longiuscule nudi, binodes, nodo siiperiore infra medium culmi sito. 

 Vaginae arctae, internodiis breviores, compressae, glabrae, sursum 

 scaberiilae, vetustae inferiores dem.um in fibras parallelas v. 

 flexnosas tennes flavescentes solutae. Ligulae 1 — 2 mm. longae, 

 late ovatae, obtusae, denticulatae. Laminae anguste lineares, 

 acutiusculae, planae, inferiores 12 — 20 cm., summa ad 3 cm. longae, 

 1 mm. latae, flaccidae, virides, scabrae, tenuinerves. Panicula 

 ovata V. ovato-oblonga cii-c, 7 cm. longa, patula, laxa, flaccidula, 

 rhachi laevi, ramis binis subcapillaribus scabris in -/g inferiore 

 indivisis, primario inferiore paniculam dimidiam aequante v. 

 superante apice 5 — 6-spiculato, secnndariis 2 — -4 spicuiatis, spiculis 

 in apice ramorum confertis breviter v. (subterminales) brevissime 

 pedicellatis. Spiculae ovali-oblongae circ. 4 mm. longae, 2 — 3 

 florae, flore imo masculino vel hermaphrodito, 1 — 2 superioribus 

 femineis, pallide virides, rhachillae glabrae internodiis gluma 

 fertili 5 — G-plo brevioribus. Glumae steriles subaequales, 2 et 

 2"r) mm. longae, lanceolatae, acutae, laeves, I. 1 — II. 3-nervis, 

 dimidiam longitudinem floris superpositi tegentes. Gliimae 

 fertiles oblongae, fere -l mm. longae, obtusae, apice hyaliuae, 

 ceterum subherbaceae, 5-nerves, nervis parum prominnlis, in 

 ^\^ inferiore nervorum laxissime et brevissime v. obsolete 

 pilosulae, callo glabro, laeves. Palea glumam subaequans ob- 

 longa, obtusiuscula, bidentula, carinis scaberula. Floris infimi 

 stamina 3, antheris linearibus 2 mm. longis ; florum superiorum 

 ovarium ovoideum, stigmatibus sessilibus longis. 



Kentani, alt. 1000', Aug. 1902, leg. Miss Alice Pegler, No. 50. 



Species peculiaris, nulli arctius affinis. Structura spicularum 

 •AQ,Qe(\\t in\. P. annuam L., et P. dihior/ihanthcun Murb. (Contrib. 



