Tricholena. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 445 
south-west as far as “Swellendam.” I have not seen any specimens from there 
nor from various other localities which he quotes. They may be either T. rosea 
or T. setifolia. 
3. T. brevipila (Hack. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 
xxx. 143); annual; culms geniculate, branched below, slender, 8-10 
in. long, terete, glabrous; sheaths subterete, uppermost often 
fringe of short hairs ; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 2-22 in 
—1i lin., flat, flaceid, scantily pubescent and more or less rough 
on the upper side ; panicle oblong, 2—4 in. long, scanty, lax ; rhachis 
very slender, scaberulous ; branches 2-nate or solitary, sparingly 
branched from near the base, capillary like the pedicels, scaberulous 
or almost smooth, tips of the latter thickened with a few long fine 
hairs ; spikelets oblong, 21-31 lin. long, olive-brown, minutely 
eae shortly bearded at the base; lower glume oblong, obtuse, 
3 i 
1 In. jong, glabrous, upper equalling the spikelet, chartaceous, 
obliquely ovate-lanceolate, slightly gibbous below the middle, 
obtusely or subacutely 2-toothed with a fine awn from the sinus 
oblong, obtuse, glabrous ; valve emarginate, faintly 5-nerved, mem- 
branous. Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 769; Hackel in 
ili. 15. 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Apy. iii. 
WestTERN REGION : Great Namaqualand, Gamochab, Schinz, 631! 
: 
Linnea xi. Lit. er. 130); perennial, very glancous ; culms erect 
or geniculately ascending from a short rhizome or a suffrutescent base, 
all over; lower floret 3d: valve very similar to the upper glume, 
slightly longer and broader, minutely emarginate and mucronate ; 
Pale subequal to the valve, ciliate on the keels; ¢ floret oblong, 
obtuse, 2 lin, long ; valve rigidly membranous, shining, obscurely 5- 
herved ; anthers 3 lin, long. Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 19; Durand § 
