T'rich opteryz. | GRAMINE (Stapf). 451 
Some specimens, are on the whole so intricately related to eac 
similar forms occur in Madagascar, viz. T. stipoides, Hack., and Stipa 
madagascariensis, Baker. 
the shortly bearded nodes ; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a long 
Setaceous point, up to 6-8 in. by 1 lin., convolute, rather rigid, 
long, glabrous; lower glume 
ovate, acute, 23~3 lin. long; upper lanceolate, truncate, 4-5 lin. long ; 
lower floret ¢ ; valve lanceolate, acute, sub-5-nerved; pale linear- 
lanceolate, 3 lin, long; stamens 2 ; anthers 1 lin. long; ¢ floret: valve 
inear-oblong, 2 lin. long, pubescent, 9-nerved, shortly bifid; callus 
pungent, villous; awn about 1 in. long, fine, kneed at the middle; 
pale not quite 2 lin. long; stamens as in the g 
1 Reeion: Transvaal ; Pretoria, Rehmann, 4730! Magalies Bergen, 
at Derde Poort, Nelson, 75a! 
much branched, 1 ft. high; stems very slender, smooth, hard, flower- 
ing branches 3-noded ; leaves 3—4 at the base of the branches, the other 
kneed below the middle ; pale 23 lin. long; stamens 2; grain ovoid- 
oblong, grooved, 1 lin. long ; embryo lin. long. 
Katanart Region: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Klip Fontein, Burchell, 
2164! 2164/1! 
