Anthephora. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 441 
Kauanart ReGion: Griqualand West; between the Orange River and 
Laauwwaters Kloof, Lichtenstein ; bet ween Sm ma ua Town and Witte Watter, 
pr inealiy 1984! Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 134! Bechuanaland ; on the 
ocks at Chue Vlei, Burchell, 2387 ! = aati near Lydenburg, Atherstone ! 
Also in Hereroland. 
ented allied to A. Hochstareecs from tropical North-east Africa, which has, 
r, longer, more slender spikes and an altogether more stragg ing 
“i Hackel’s A, Schinzii es pete and (German South-west Africa) is 
ie only a patted villous weak state of A. pubescens. 
. undulatifolia (Hack. in Bull. Herb. mg iv. App. iii. 12); 
annual, dwarf ; culms fascicled, erect, about n. long, sheathed to 
be eyond the middle, slender, glabrous, smooth ; alia aths lax, strongly 
striate, sparsely beset with ‘long fine spreading ee particularly 
towards the margins; ligules membranous, obtuse, 1} lin. long ; 
blades linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, acute, at n. by 21-3 
lin., soft, sparsely pubescent, long hairy towards the san margins 
cartilaginous, strongly wavy ; fitac spike cylindri rie, about 1 in. long ‘ 
ee 
nodes ; spikelets in 1 subsessile clusters o 5-4, arded at the base, 
° lin. long, outer g or one of them reduced a the lower pees 
inner 2 ¢; lower glume lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 5 lin. lor 
coriaceous, silky villous at Se ase, otherwise glabrous, 0- to ane 
nerved, contracted at the base so as to form oblong pores with the 
«joining outer glumes ; ae: clume setaceously subulate, ciliolate, 
lin. lo ong; 1-nerved ; lower valve dorsally flattened, oblong, 
upper valve similar to the lower in the S (but glabrous), sub- 
chartaceous, oblong- lanceolate, acute in the $; pale 0 in the g 
equal to the valve in the ¢ ; anthers 11 lin. long; styles free or 
almost so, about 11 lin. long; stigmas 23 lin. Jon g. 
pak REGION: Great Namaqualand, in stony places near Rehoboth, 
é 
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The only specimen which I ert seen (in Hackel’s veer crate is a small 
oung Bits: which, when collected, was still nee Pig nection by m yo Pes a 
lengthened internode with oe grad from which ang, and ¢c of a 
single 1 flowering and several young leafy shoots, fascicled on and ee pre 
e Orst node. 
XXII. TRICHOLANA, Schrad. 
Spikelets oblong , laterally compressed, more or less gaping, panicled, 
deciduous from m. capillary pedicels ; lower floret usually ¢ or barren, 
upper 3. Glumes very dissimilar or at least unequal, sie reduced 
to a minute scale or obsolete, very rarely 3 the length of the spikelet, 
Somewhat remote from the upper; upper glume membranous, 
upper glume with a ee 2-nerved subequal pale, upper much 
pari thinly chartac glabrous, shining, obtuse or aw 
margina 
te, obscurely Rare with an ere 2-nerved pale o 
