Puate 2604. 
ACHNERIA CAPILLARIS, Stap/. 
GRAMINES. Tribe AVENE. 
A. capillaris, Stapf; affinis A. awree, sed annua, glumis acutioribus 
tenuioribus pubescentibus valvis pro ratione brevioribus glabris diversa. 
Gramen annuum. Culmi nye e — geniculata ascendentes, 
irci 
a 
pore perforatis munite. Panicula obovata vel su mle midalis, 
onga, 3—4 poll. lata, tandem effusa, iterum trichotome 
ramis 2-natis apicem versus spiculigeris filiformibus vel capillaribus 
glabris vel ad axillas pilosis levibus preter tubercu ae ae eras 
ta. el 8 
hyaline, tenuiter pubesce sae yah Valve late ovato-oblonge 
glabre, 5-7-nerves, nervis scnuibias sub apice convergentes 
valvis subequales. Lodicule glabre, minute. Anthere 3 lin. longe. 
Holcus capillaris, nai Fl. Cap. ed. i. p. 412; ed. Schult. p. 110 
(excl. diagn.), non Prodr. p. 20. Sorghwm capillare Roem. & Schult. ii. 
. 840. Andropogon ti) aia, Kunth, Rev. Gram. I. p. 166; 
Enum. I. p. 510. 
Sourn Arrica: Cape of Good Hope, Thunberg. 
This grass does not seem to have been collected since Thunberg,~ 
nor is there any evidence that subsequent writers have seen peci- 
men. As, moreover, Thunberg’s diagnosis and description of this plant 
partly contradictory, it is no wonder 
Schultes, as well as Kunth, were misled in their endeavours to find a 
place for it in Andropogoner. Hackel (Monogr. Androp. p. 651) has 
— l.c., £ flosculo  hetshap ito nition, masculo aristato’ asi 
‘ glumis glabris,’ whilst in the Selene no mention is made of the 
* Caeg bey Schlrche be tternelum, #11370, hu aha 
a-~ MBS. 
