10 Tiibus I. Phalarideae. 



In gramiriosis ad pagum Sommcrsct in Ilollcnloll-lioIIandia ; 

 in nionte Kamisberg alt. IV. (Namaqualand); in humidis montium 

 Paarlberg et Modderfonteinsberg alt. 1000 — 4i500' (Tulbagh), 

 (Drcge). Oclobre et Novembre. 



Radix parva, in rbizomate verlicillato-fibrillosa. Culmus ere- 

 clus, pcdalis circiter, tenuis, inferne teres pubesccns, superne te- 

 tragonus striatus ad nodos et infra eos pubescens, supra basin fa- 

 sciculalo-ramosus ramis inaequalibus plurinodils. Vaginae inferio- 

 res internodiis acquales, superiores breviores, convolutae, mollis- 

 sime pubcscentes, suprema subvcnlricosa, longior et magis glabra. 

 Ligula truncala, bifida vel lacera. Lamina 1 — 2 polliccs longa^ 

 lineara i — 11/2 lala, lineari-acuminala, plana, mollissirae pube- 

 scens, suprerai folii duplo niinor. Pauicula densa, tbyrsoidea, ova- 

 to-oblonga, obtusa, 1 — 2 pollices ionga. Rhachis communis sca- 

 Lra* Rami alterni, semipollicares, liirli, ihyrsoideo-racemulosi, 

 ramulis subfasciculatis inaequalibui uni-quadrifloris hirtis. Pedi- 

 celli graciles, incurvi, scabri, spicula duplo salteni breviores, apice 

 callosi subbarbati, Spiculae scsquilineares, ovatae, compressae. 

 Gluraae membranaceae, carinatae, tuberculatae setulisque tuberculis 

 imposilis appressis scabrae^ carina pectinalo-ciIiatae_, pallidae: ;n- 

 ferior rainor et anguslior, oblongo-lanceolala, subulalo-acuminala, 

 uninervis; superior (dum explanatur) suborbicularis, trinervis, ner- 

 vis lateralibus anle apicem abbreviatis, carinali in setam bilinea- 

 rera scabram purpurascentem ex apice integro prominente. FIo- 

 sculi calyce duplo breviores, pedicellati» Pedicellus communis flo- 

 sculo dimidio brevior, incurvus, giaber, basi relrorsum cum callo 

 obtuso squamiformi coniunctus, sub flosculo calloso-gibbosus, pi- 

 lisque paucis (5 — 6) flosculi dimidii longitudinis tanquara involucro 

 Larbatus, Flosculus inferior in callo communis pedunculi sessilis, 

 y^ I'"ca \ix longior, hermaphroditus^ raulicus : valvula inferior 

 ovata, coraplicata, dorso oblusa, intcgra, laevis, pallida, quinque- 

 nervis, chartacea, in fruclu subcarlilaginea; superior inclusa, ac- 

 que longa, linearis, bidcntata, marginibus inflcAis comprcssa, ma- 

 gis raembranacea. Lodiculae obconicae, obtusac, integrae. Ova- 

 rium croceum; styli duoj sliguiala pcuicillala, pallida. Aulhcrac 



