426 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Setaria. 
Katanart Reeton: Orange Free State; by the Caledon River, Burke! Draai 
Fontein, Reimann, 3676! 
JAS REGion: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 1158! 
Schlechtendal’s Setaria dasyura was described from specimens raised from seeds 
collected in the Nilgherris. It occurs also in Abyssinia and is a form of S. aurea, 
from which S. flabellata differs very conspicuously in the formation of long stolons 
or rhizomes and compressed more or less flabellate fascicles of shoots. 
8. S. rigida (Stapf): perennial; culms erect, rather stout, over 
ough. 
sukangular, hairy; branches reduced to subsessile clusters of 5-8 
partly arrested spikelets, each of which is subtended by 1 coarse 
scabrid subflexuous bristle, 3-5 lin. long; pedicels very short, tips 
cupular ; spikelets oblong, acute or subacute, slightly curved, slightly 
over 1 lin. long, straw-coloured ; lower glume ovate or almost round, 
oblong, membranous, 5-nerved; pale 0; ¢ floret oblong; valve 
subcoriaceous, very finely punctate, 5-nerved; anthers over } lin. 
long. 
Eastern Region : Natal; Umpumulo, 2400 ft., Buchanan, 12! 173! 
at least flowering the first year ; rhizome short, oblique, covered with 
b 
ciliate rim ; blades linear, long tapering to an acute point, 3-1} ft. by 
1-4 lin. or rarely 6 lin., flat, rather firm, sometimes rather rigid and 
