¥1, X, Oaest Afr. p. 20), quarum flos supi-emns in quavis spiciila 

 feminins, iiiferiore.:! herraaphroditi sunt Sed haec species a 

 iiosti-a valde diflEerunt radice annua, ghimis fertilil)us ad nervos 

 :sei'iceo-pilosis etc. Flos infirnus in P. heterogama modu hei-ma- 

 plii'odito (ovario lainus evoluto quam in superioribns) modo 

 mere masculino : in superioribus indium vestigium staminai-um 

 •adest. 



Cakimagrosfin Huttonia', Haclc. n. sp, — Mrs. C. Hutton. No. 

 .:}S4 (Howick, Natal, Dec. 1902), 



This number in<:;ludes 2 different plants : a number of 

 >;talks (l)ut (uil}' one leaf) torn off high up with inflorescence 

 which undoubtedl}' belongs to a species of Calamagrostis, for 

 the valve has at the base a tuft of hair of nearly its own 

 length and it has besidf^s a very short bearded ^'rolono■ation 

 of the axis on the same side as the pale, therefore belono-s to 

 the subgenus Deyeuxiu. The species is certainly new, but cannot 

 he thoroughly diagnosed as the lowei- parts are completely wanting 

 and I must delay drawing up a description until more complete 

 specimens have been collected, but there is another matter t> be 

 cleared up. With the specimen there was a single, complete, 

 flowering stalk, which represents Agrofitis lacltnantha, Rees, only 

 slightly differing from the type. Both grasses, therefore, grow at 

 the same place, and it is now remarkable to notice that almost all 

 cliaracters (leaves, spikelets, relative sizes, form and nervation of 

 the giumae steriies and glumae fertiles) agree in Ijoth, the onlv 

 <lifterence is in the indument, for A. lachnantha has at the base 

 of the valve only short hairs and just such hairs at the sides and 

 on the back ; it is entirely without the piolongation of the axis. 

 The present material is insufficient to decide in what relation the 

 two grasses stand to one another. It is very desirable that more 

 material be procured. Perhaps we may be dealing with a hybrid 

 form ? 



Spovoboius pectinatus^ Hack. (Oestr. Botan. Zeit. lUUo, p. 198) 

 var. (nova) coluratus — differt a typo non solum colore subfusco 

 ypicularum sed etiani glnma I 1/H spiculae aequans (non 2/3 ut in 

 typo). 



Johannesburg, Mrs. C. Hutton, No. 25^>, April 1<S*.)()- 

 Panicum gaadrifarium, Hochst. 

 Warrenton, Miss C. Adams, No. 11, April 1902. 

 This species is omitted in Flora Oapensis, Vol. VII. 



