vee) GRAMINE sl ). 357 
aetiry Feed in the ‘Ca as well] as = Meili tceeinien countries ; but they do 
not differ = alage fram it, when clude ther m from tite var. podotric er 
podotri 
22. A. auctus (Stapf) ; SS culms erect, robust, up to 
2 lin, thick, 3-5 ft. long, glabrous, simple or more or less branched 
and 3—-5-noded below the panicle, ‘longest internode over + ft. long ; 
sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, the “lowest crowded, compressed, 
A. hirtus, except for the pedicelled spikelets having a muticous 
lower glume and subequal valves. 
Coast Reaion: Uiten a A Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 626! Queenstown 
Div.; near Shiloh, 3500 ft., r, 897! 
‘ KALAHARI Raion: un Tre State; Thaba Unchu, Burke, 427! Zeyher, 
7991 
Eas Reeion : Griqualand ea grassy slopes near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., 
Tyaon, ‘3105 ! Natal; Riet Vlei, 6000 ft., Buchanan, 222! 
a 
23. A. Schimperi (Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 
66); perennial (always?); culms erect, sometimes geniculate, 
stout, up to 5 ft. long, glabrous, up to 7-noded ; te quite 
obtuse, scario n. long; blades linear, wri to a long 
ne , +1} ft 37 lin., subrigid to almost flaccid, flat, 
glabrous, rarely scantily hirsute near the base, shat at least up- 
c 
wards, margins seabrid to subspinulous; panicle large, oblong to 
ovate, lax, decompound, up to 11 ft. long; spathes lanceolate, 
acuminate, narrow or broad, 1-14 in. long, scarious, reddish ; 
common peduncles filiform, glabrous except the curved tips, whieh 
are beset with long yellowish tubercle-based hairs = aartee in 
& 
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ong, mals : lower glume Saas to almost inete ben sian 
minutely truncate, dorsally flattened, glabrous or more or less 
villous, intracarinal nerves 5, some ai least evanescent below, keels 
Spinulous ciliate above, salle bearded ; upper membranous, 0 obtuse, 
raceintey nerves ceutwid near the tip; lower valve oblong, obtuse, 
faintly ie ae ciliate; upper shortly 2-fid, I-nerved, lobes 
KY. LE-¢4, KO Treg. Oh. W763 
