280 cypgracem (Clarke). [ Tetraria. 
sylvatica, except that the bracts have come off in the drying ; it is not supposed 
that even bad drying would bring off the tough bracts of T. “sylvati ca. 
7. T. picta (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. 
v. 662) ; ee much dilated at the base ; Fag la contracted, about 
1 in. long; spikelets (young) more than } in. lon oblong-lanceolate, 
little compressed (the glumes only obscurely distichous) ; ; otherwise 
as T. aby Elynanthus pictus, Boeck. in Linnea, xxxviii. 254. 
Coast Ree Tulbagh Div.; mountains near New Kloof, 2090 ft., 
Mac | Hord. ge Afr, 1 683! Worcester Div., Drakenstein Mountains, 
near Bains Kloof, 1800 f tus 4077! Dutoits Kloof, 2000-4000 ft., Dreye, 
d4a! 1654aa! 
Boeckeler “age — “eho is Sy que e scion: it is A branched at Kew 
cal ri d style age be ality in Tetrar ‘There are seh 
nT. picta,3 minu fe i pogynous “bsnl, but at, are likely to occur 
poe ey he in aan eres the present section 
8. rar p eer (C. B. Clarke in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fi. 
Afr. ; glabrous; rhizome 4 in. in diam., horizontal ; stems 
12-16 j in, oa tufted, medium-sized to sle nder, terete, "pion any 
, lanceolate, acute, scareely mucronate ; hypogynous 
bristles 0; stamens 3; anthers (of the genus) with sterile ears at the 
base ; style 3-fid ; nui, including beak, Lin. long, trigonous, nearly 
smooth, yellow-white ; beak narrow conic. Chetospora ci) reinales C; 
Dre, rege, issn ” Documente 17 Ly 
fou REGION : r Div.; Ratel River, Thom’ Caledon Div. ; Houw 
ovk, 2000 ft., Schlechter, pte 7411! Riversdale Div.; on the lower part of 
H 
the Lange Bergen, near Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6952! Huma nsdorp Div. 5 
Kromme ives, ake 1000 ft., Drége ! 
9. T. wallichiana(C. B. Clarke in ae and Schinz, Conspect. 
Fl. Afr. v. 664); glabrous; stems 12-18 i long, tufted, medium- 
sized to slender, terete, without any node a the aS bract 
and the sub-basal sheaths; leaf-sheaths tine brown, 4 
striate, with many pale-brown fimbriations on the "edges ; . leaves 
nearly a foot iP aia near the base 3. in. broad, Sat; ” panicle 
2 by } in., close; 2 lower bracts 1 by 1-1 in. lancesiate, striate, 
chestnut- coloured, with pale-brown thin margins and linear 
weak tips 4-} in. long; spikelets 2 in. lon g, “clustered ; lower 
flower male with moma -_ upper bisexual, perfecting a nut ; 
hypogynous bristles 0; ens 3; anthers (of the genus) W with 
sterile ears at the base ; At pistil obovoid, hemispheric at the top, 
hispid (indicating a naee ase confluent wits is ?); style short, 
linear, branches 3 long linear, 
