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chartacea, dorso applanata, in carinis et nervis intracarinalibus 

 plerisque tuberculato-aspera, tuberculis carinalibus pilos albos 

 rigidos breves 1 vel 2 gerentibus, nervis a facie visis viridiboe 

 carinalibus inclusis 8-9 ; gluma superior navicularis, inferiorem 

 aequans, membranacea, 5-nervis, carinata carina rigide-ciliata, 

 marginibus ciliolatis ; anthoecium inferum $ , valva oblongo- 

 lanceolata 5-6 mm. longa hyalina purpurascente 3-nervi dorso 

 minute asperula ciliolata, palea 2-nervi hyalina valvam subae- 

 quante; anthoecium superum f, valva apice minute 3-dentate 

 dente intermedio mucronulato, caeterum anthoecio inferiori simile. 

 Antherae 4 mm. longae. Spiculae pedicellatae pedicello clavato 

 extus piloso ad 6 mm. longo suffultae, sessilibus similes nisi nervi 

 glumae inferioris intracarinales tantum 3 et valva anthoecii 

 superioris masculi vel hermaphroditi vix tridentata. 



Natal. Tabanhlope, 1800-2400 m., /. Wylie (Hb. Wood 10540). 

 This grass has been named after Miss Franks, Assistant in the 

 Government Herbarium, who dissected it and has made all the 

 drawings and dissections in vol. V. of i Natal Plants,' which 

 volume includes grasses only. 



(Mr. Wood's description has been amplified from the excellent 

 material which he was good enough to communicate to Kew. 

 Technically this striking species would come under the section 

 Eii-ischaemum, but I have not been able to make out its exact 

 affinities.— Otto Stapf.) 



939. Agrostis suavis, Stapf (Gramineae) ; arete affinis A. 

 erianthae, Hack., sed panicula divaricato-effusa a folio summo 

 remota, ramis 4-5-natis semiverticillatis. 



Qramen perenne, laxe caespitosum, innovationibus mixtis, 

 extravaginalibus e basi breviter repente ascendentibus vel in 

 stolonea abeuntibus. Culmi erecti, ad paniculae basin circiter 

 50 cm. alti, 3-nodi, glabri, simplices, internodiis exsertis, summo 

 sub anthesi ultra vaginae os 8-12 cm. producto. Foliorwn vaginae 

 laxiusculae, imprimis superiores, glabrae, laeves, infimae purpura- 

 scentes ; ligulae hyalinae, oblongae, ad 5 mm. longae ; laminae 

 angnste lineares, breviter acutae, exsiccando plicatae, ad 15 cm. 

 longae (summae 3-5-4v> cm. longae), explicatae ad 2 mm. latae, 

 laete virides, glabrae, apicem versus scaberulae, facie inter nervos 

 primarios utrinque circiter 4 fere ad medium angustissime sulcatae. 

 Panicula divaricate, laxa, ambitu obovata vel oblonga, ultra 

 20 cm. longa, ad 15 cm. late; rami inferiores semiverticil- 

 lati, 4-5-ti, superiores 2-ti, plerique ad 2'5-3'5 cm. (nonnulli ad 

 6 cm.) indivisi, abhinc bis vel ter vel quater geminatim ramulosi, 

 longiores toti 12 cm. longi, filiformes; inferne laeves, superne 

 asperuli ; pedicelli capillares, terminales ad 18 mm. longi, laterales 

 3-10 mm. longi. Spiculae 4-4-5 mm. longae, stramineae, saepe 

 purpureo-suffusae ; rhachilla ad pilorum fasciculnm vix 1 mm. 

 longum redacta. Glumae aequales, lanceolatae, acutae, 1 -nerves, 

 scariosae. Valva a latere visa anguste lanceolate, explanata ovato- 

 lanceolata, 3'5 mm. longa, breviter bi6da, 5-nervis, nervis latoral- 

 ibus in mucronulos excurrentibus, dorso laxe tenuissime pilosa, 

 paulo infra medium aristem setiformem 5-6 mm. longam edens. 

 Palea hyalina, 2-nervis, truncata quam valva paulo brevior, glabra. 



