Anthistiria.] GRAMINER (Stapf). 367 
ascending, 1-3 ft. long, rather slender, glabrous, simple or branched ; 
sheaths compressed, keeled, firm, glabrous or the lower sometimes 
hairy and bearded at the nodes, exceeding the internodes, except the 
upper; ligules membranous, very short, obtuse or pag aes ciliolate ; 
blades linear, long ae: to a fine point, 2-8 in. by 1-2) lin., 
solitary or the upper 2 2 Eis filiform, Bai ie bearing eatiali. 
satin, sually dense, ae of racemes ; spathes lanceolate, obtusely 
scuntnate, about 1 i . long, rarely longer, pn bearded at the 
labrous or aioe greenish or reddish; racemes 6-9 lin. long; 
a hole spikelets whorled sessile, ser Diy lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, 33-5 lin. long, rarely longer, glabrous or with scattered 
short tubercle-based hairs, ¢ ; their lower glume not or ver 
obscurely winged on one side only; lower valve generally present ; 
puidiecliod spikelets linear-lanceolate, glabrous, on short glabrous or 
subglabrous pedicels; ¢ spikelet 1, not exserted from the involucre, 
linear- oblong, subcylindric, 23-33 lin, long, callus pungent,up to 12 lin. 
long, glabrous in front, ot therwise densely earded with shining 
and shining except the rigidly pubescent or scabrid tip, obscurely 
7—9-nerved, upper glabrous ; lower valve glabrous, somewhat shorter 
a 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 562 ; eee v. ie Trans. Linn. Soc, xxix 
176, not Linn. f. A. ciliata, var. B, Nees in Linnea, vii. 285. 
ciliata, vars. hispida and ciliata, Nees, FL “4 ifr. Austr. 121. A. arguens, 
Nees, lc. 124, not Willd. A. vulgaris, Haek. in Engl. §& Prantl. 
at. Pflanzenf. ii, Abt. ii. 29. Stipa arguens, Thunb. Prodr. 20. 
Themeda rigs Be wars. vulgaris, imberbis and ack, 
Anurop. in DO, pol . Phan. vi. 660-662 ; Durand s Schind, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v 
Var. 8, mollicoma fs ee leaves, spathes and involucral spikelets more or 
less densely “villous with long soft often pape based hairs, otherwise like the 
type. A. ciliata y mollicoma, Nees, Austr.121. Themeda Forskalii, 
var, oh Hack, l.c. 661; Durand S Schine, hx 730. 
Var. y, argentea ba leaves silvery with soft closely given hairs ; 
spathes and oe spikelets glabrous or scantily hairy. argente a, Nees, 
le. raat meda Forskalii, var. argentea, Hack. lc. 661; Durand i i Schinz, 
Var 3, pong hag At ) 5 panicle laxer than in the type ; spathes rather longer 
(often up to 2 i 3 tascicles of 2-3 racemes only; involucral spikelets 
4-6 lin, = labrous or slau. Themeda Forskalii, var. Burchellii, Hack. 
lc. 661; Durand § Schinz, lc. 730. 
Soutu is RICA: sets apg Rcsee Shunbery | ! Zeyher, 4487! Ecklon, 
2) Bergius! Mund § Mai y, 284 ! 
oast Region : Clsawitiom Div, cals ae and on the Konde Paes 
near Wupperthal, 3000-4000 ft., Drege! Cape between Cape Tow and 
Table Mountain, Burchell, at “Lions Rump Caran 127! Devils P Peak, bel 
