368 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [Anthistiria. 
Blockhouse, Dodd, 2749! Lion Mountain, over Sea Point, Dodd, 1609! Kastocls 
Poort, Dodd, 1365! Tokay spo: rte 1964! Simons Bay, Wright! 
2000-3 fc, ersdale Div. 
var 
eo Mou 
81! 82! Lowe r Albany; Glenfilling, =n “Y000 ft., a Var. y 
hage Div. ; nied Coega River and Sunday River, Drég 
CENTRAL ReGion: Albert Div. ; Cooper, ie Aberdeen ~ ; Camdeboo 
Mountain, 3000-5000 ft., Drege! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff gree 
4 ft., Drége, at 2700 ft., Bo ed o8! Sneeuw Berg i ge, 
5000 ft., Drége! Aliwal mea Div. ; Witte Bergen, 7000-8000, ‘ovine tee i 
Aliwal North Div. (?); by th slap Tan 5000-6000 ft., Zeyher! Var 
Colesberg Div.; near Coesberg, Shaw 
KataHARI ReGion: r. B: Get Mae West; fields to the north 
of Kimberley, Nelson, ort Transvaal ; Wonderfontein, Nelson, 1*!| Umb- 
lenga’s Kraal, Cave Mountains, Nelson, 56*! i and West; 
a iv., b en Kloo lage and Witte abit, Burchell, 
ry iw Griquatown, Burchell, 1844! and at Do iver, Burchell, 2136/2! 
range Free e; by the ner 2 ke — 197! by the Caledon River 
rooeno ediate between var. 6 a e), Burke, 423! and without precise 
a ality, Cooper, 915! Hutton! =a ott Bosch Veld, between Elands River an 
Klippan, Rehmann, 5108! 5353 ! Paid Lydenbur: g, Atherstone! by the Nylstroom 
River at ay Drift, — 40* 
Eastern Ree@ion: Tembula i Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baur, 369! 275! 
Pon alan ai between Umtata River and St. Johns River, Drage : Natal ; bank of 
the Tugela River (a form beet ree ho leaves), tian 227! between 
Umzimku tal; Ina 
Rehmann, 8244! Var. ie  eemat oh 2000 ft. ge os betwen var 6 and 
var, €), Buchan nan, 226! 
Durand & Schinz, le. 731, indicate also ‘ ee Posten var. 
ack.,’’ from Bechuanaland (Marloth, 995) and from the Cape Colony (arto, 
). Lhave not seen those x a but I suspect, they represent merely a 
usually glaucous state of A. imberbis 
e species ranges th jaan idee. tropics of the Old World. In the western 
parts of the Cape hae » it covers vast tracts of land at low or high altitudes. 
suberect, occupying }—3 of the culm, usually rather dense, compound ; 
lower branches actitars or 2-3-nate, filiform, glabrous, undivided 
often to the middle, then bearing, at equal distances, usually shortly 
peduneled dense clusters of racemes; spathes linear to su te 
from a broad lanceolate base, 2-1 in. long, glabrous or with scattered 
