450 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Trichopteryz. 
1. T. simplex (Hack. ex oe sn Nl Mays Afr. 129 in 
note); densely tufted ; culms 2-3 ft. long, glabrous, 2- (rarely 3-) noded ; 
leaves all but 2 or 3 near the base, sheathing the culm s to ft.; sheaths 
firm, tight, glabrous or more or ‘less hispid, bearded at the nodes, the 
lowest tomentose at the base and finally splitting into rigid fibres ; 
blades narrow linear, tapering to a long setaceous point, 3 ft. by 
2 lin. or less, flat or ona rigid, hirsute or glabrescent ; panicle 
erect, contracted, 6—10 in ; rhachis glaucous; branches fascicled 
or geminate, erect, very ae 1, the longest to 2-3 in. long, filiform, 
sparingly branched, scabrid or almost smooth ; ; spikelets light brown, 
5-6 lin. long ; glumes glabrous, rarely sparingly bristly, the lower lanceo- 
late-oblong, minutely subtruncate, 21—3 lin. long, the upper lanceolate, 
produced into a linear convolute ‘truncate beak, 5-7 lin. long; lower 
floret ¢: valve lanceolate, soni or acutely aoe usually shorter 
than the upper glume, glabrous or with a very few bristles along the 
outer nerves ; pale iabaeonlong. 32 lin. long; stamens 2, anthers 13-2 
lin. long; ¢ floret : valve oblong-linear, terete, 21—3 lin. long (in this 
and the following species measured from the callus to the base of the 
awn), pubescent, faintly 7- igh: shortly bifid ; lobes acute ; callus 
2-toothed, villous, bearded, + lin. long ; column of awn 4-5 lin. long; 
bristle 9-15 lin. long ; pale anceolate, acute, 3 lin. long; stamens 
as inthe g. Durand & Schina, Consp. Fl. Afr. vy. 846. K. Schum. 
in et Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 109 (partly); T. sp., Benth. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xix. 98. Tristachya simplex, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 269; Steud. 
Sy vi LL Glum, i. 238. 
R. 8, minor © (Sta) poor 1 ft. long, — — the pg ~— a 
done blades volute, eous, those he bar sh g ast 
culms, elaieous ees peo 3-6 in. elie paige 44-5 ta. yey eae! 
spain glabrous, 
AR. y, erinita (Stapf ex Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. i. 214) ; culms 1-2} 
ft. long, 1-2-noded; blades conyolute, subsetaceous, rarely flat, ‘those of the 
ont shoots 1-1} ft. long, glaucous, glabrous, nodes glabrous, rarely silky; 
panicle 5-6 in. long; spikelets 5-6) lin - lon ng lower glume 2-33 lin. long, like 
the upper bristly along the nerve valve f g shorter pao the upper glume, 
acutely acuminate, sub-5-nerved, bristly anit the inner side-nerv 
Var. 3, sericea (Stapf) ; ¢ ulms 1 -21 ft. long, 2-3-noded ; blades 5 convolute, 
ceous, i on flat, Sighs * Bey see Flabrons, ene uae 
Katana ReGIon ; Transvaal ; on the top of greeny _ in Zoutpans- 
g Div., Nelson, 88*! near Ly den nburg, Wilms, 1706! V . minor: 
pai State Oy, Buchanan ! iret mg ericea : Teanavaal Houtbosch, Rehman” 
5663 ! 5664! Houtbosch Berg, by the Broeder Stroo: 
Eastern Recion: Pondoland ; price nm St. Sob River and ‘Um tsicn —_ 
: : on 
at U ! ‘ 
Tnande, Wood, 1580! —— of ditches bec Umpumalo, 2000 ft., Buchana” 
293! and without — locality, Buchanan, 65! South Downs in 7 
Co tg 4000 ft., Wood, 4404! Drage, 4236° from Port Natal, is probably © 
song with gisbrons spikelets. Its lower branches are nodding and over 3° 
lon 
bio in tropical Africa. 
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