446 GRAMINF& (Stapf). | Tricholena. 
Schinz, Ag Fi, i v. 769. iain capense, giao in Fiosm. 
» Sch , vil. 275 
St. Pétersb. sér. vi. iii. 297; Steud. eye. Pl. Glu, i. 92. 
dasyanthum, Lichtenst. ex: sting re mat Austr. l.c 
CENTRA - Prince Alb at Zwastbalete near the Gamka 
River, 2500-3000 ft., Drége, 899! “Calvin Div. ; between Lospers Plaats and 
Springbok Kuil River, ot _ 
ARI REG : Orange Free State; Jackals Fontein, Burke / Bechuana- 
land ror ia Blom vee Fichtenst ein. 
5. T. arenaria eee’ Cat. Sem. Hort. Vratisl. 1835, and in 
Linne. Lit. Ber. 130); perennial; culms branched below, 
geniculate, slender, rigid, over 1 ft. long, glaucous , rough below the 
nodes; leaves glaucous ; sheaths terete, tight, eae except at the 
5 
id, lax, open, 
long ; rhachis very slender, smooth; branches fascicled or 2-nate, 
rather distant, tiliform a in. long, often undivided for 3-3 
their length from the base, then loosely divided (the longer re- 
peatedly); branchlets and pedicels roaaered smooth, the latter 1-2 lin. 
ong; spikelets oblong, 1--14 lin. long, finely pubescent, often 
purplish; lower glume an seein ly minute ciliate scale, upper 
tancadtatelublotg, “equalling the spikelet, membranous, minutely or 
obscurely emarzinate, mucronulate or muticous, finely 5- nerved, 
pubescent all over ; lower floret t ¢: valve equal and similar to the 
+ 
upper glume, but broader and more trancat ; pale subequal, 
minutely 2 2 lobed, ciliolate above, keels glabrous; ¢ floret elliptic or 
ovate-oblong, 2 lin. long ; valve obtuse, tigidly se bends, shining, 
very faintly 5-nerved; anthers : lin. long; grain elliptic-oblong, 
+ lin. long. Dees, Afr. Austr. 20 ; Durand § Schinz, teas 
. Afr. v. 769; Hack. in Bull, Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 1 
gt uscguas Bick oY Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 92. 
R. 8B, glauca (Stapf) ; a penerecen pee the base ; asia hag 
wey tise, pore: gal bro Anthenantia glauea, Hack. in Yer Bot. 
Ve v. Brandenb. x x. 237 ; in Bull, Herb, Robes iss. iv. App. ii 
ERN REGION: Tid Namaqua'and ; sand-hills between Tekken and 
Droge, 2568! Var. 8: Great Namaqualand; Tiras, Schinz, 673! ndy 
baaias between Ausis and Kuias, Schenk, 80. 
T. glabra (Stapf); perennial; culms densely fascicled, arent 
or subgeniculate, alent Ts Pings hed and wiry below, 1-1} ft. lon, 
glabrous, smooth, 5—7-n ; upper internodes at t length eae 9 
sheaths tight, terete, potrny lower subpersistent, often. finely hairy 5 
ligule a devine fringe of fine. hairs ; blades linear, long tapering 60 
fine point, 2}-43 in, by 1-21 lin., flat or involute, somewhat rigid 
and glaucous, ‘nek. ubeseent or glabrous, smooth; paniele oblong 
or obovoid, open or contracted, lax, 21-6 in. long; rhachis slender, 
