454 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Tristachya. 
long, glabrous, 2-(rarely 1-) noded; leaves mostly basal; lowest sheaths 
ery firm, rigid, persistent, fulvously tomentose below, glabrescent 
saaoree: upper “rather tight, sparsely hairy or glabrous ; nodes villous ; ; 
blades linear, tapering to a fine point or ee 6-9 in. by 13-2 lin., 
uppermost much shorter, rigid, glabrous and smooth, or sparsely 
hairy, rarely hispidly villous ; triplets of “afials ets 1-12 in. long, 
5-3 in racemes, rarely 2 or solitary ; peduncles 3-12 in. long, flexuous, 
glabrous and smooth or hispid above ; pedicels very short, stout or 
hardly any; lower glume lanceolate, acute or subulate-acuminate, 
9-12 lin. long, firm, 3-nerved, with long white soft spreading hairs 
from closely crowded small tubercles along the nerves; upper glume 
lanceolate, long subulate-acuminate, 14-18 lin, long, scarious, 3- 
nerved, minutely tubercled and spreadingly hairy along the margin ; 
lower floret t g: valve similar to the upper glume, but slightly longer, 
7-nerved, sompenen close to the margins with a double row 0 
i ring glands 
lin. long. Nees in piles vii oe FL Afr. Austr. 9 67 ; Kunth, 
Enum. i. 308 ; Trin. Pan. Can. 337 : Drege in Linnea, xx. 253 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 238; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xyix. 
174, ¢. 115, fig. B; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 845. T- 
monotephala. Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 120; Steud. l.c. 938; "Deine 
s Schinz, l.e. 845. TT. hispida, K. "Relais. 3 n Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. 
109. Avena hispida, Thunb. Prodr. 22. Anthistiria hispida, 
ae rig Ai yp. ed. Schult. 107, Danthonia hispida, Spreng- 
Syst. Veg. i. 
Coast Recion : Swellendam Div.; Mund. George Div.; Mund. ernaeet 
nge K 
cael loof, Thunberg ! Human i K iver, Thunbe 
Port Elizabeth Div. ; Krakakamma Mountains, Ecklon. Port Elizabeth, B.S 
b., 87! Alexandria Div.; Zuur Bergen, Dréye; Zwar , Burke! Addo, 
ége. y Div.; near Grahamstown, — eyhe 5! . 
tock m 
Ecklon. King Williamstown Div. ; near the et se i Yallow wood) “Ri ver, 1800 ft 
Drége. Komgha Diy.; near Komgha, Flanagan, ah 
CENTRAL Pog So t Div.; on the plateau at the summit of Bos ch 
Berg, 4800 ft., MacOwan § Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr Afr. 789! Alexandria 
Div.; on the rocks of Zwartwater Poort, Burchell, 3381 
RI ReGion: Transvaal; near penne. Wilms, 1709! Spitzkop, = 
Letelbacle' diatinek, ¥ elson, 93* ! 
ASTERN REGION: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 275 partly! sgt 
land; between St. Johns River and Umtsikuba River, Drége! Natal; © 
summit of Table Mountain near Pieter Maritzburg, Krauss, 366! In Inanda, Wo 
1594! Umpumaulo and Riet Vlei, Buchanan, 237! and without precise lout: 
Buchanan, 59! 
Also in tropical Africa, 
