460 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Achneria. 
nerved, hairy along the margins and sometimes along the middle- 
nerve, tips rieiceines 3-toothed or entire, Seeger pales obtuse, tips 
ciliolate ; anther in. long; grain $~—1 long. Hrz 
capensis, Steud. in “Flor ay 1829, 470. E. Steudelii, ‘Nees, Fl. Afr. 
Austr. 278; Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 236. Atropsis Steudelii, Nees in Linnea, 
vii. 318; Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. 217; Enum. ; 294; Suppl. 245. 
Var. 8, firmula (Stapf) ; all parts more rigid ; panicle 1-14 in. long, and almost 
as broad, effuse ; Po Sil elets 14 lin. long; g glumes deep pom prin the base ; 
valves minutely hairy. 
VaR. y vespilace agg ea ft. long ; leaves finely filiform, up to 9 in. 
long ; shies ovate, 2-32 in ; effuse, pedicels very long and fine, up 
to 9 lin. Ion g; sc ietets 2 lin. ee * allid. 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Drége, 1673! 1687! 
Coast fy ok : Clanwilliam Div.; Ceder nae gen, Honig Vallei “ty Ezelsbank, 
000- ége. Cape Div.; top of @ Mountain, Ecklon, 949! near 
Capetown, firs rvey, 149! Cape Peninsula in es ange Kloof, Wolley "Dod, 2 2124! 
Worcester Div. ; Dutoits Kloof, 2500-3000 ft., Drége! Stellenbosch Div. ; on 
rocks in Lowrys Pass, boii 000 ft., Droge! Swellendam Div. ; Paspas Vallei, 
Ecklon. Var. firmula: Riversdale Div.; near Zoetemelks war. Burchell, 
6645! Var. salptttabel- Hiversdate a on the lower part of the Lange Bergen, 
near es cee Burchell, 6953 
A. pal oid ol ip d_& Schi — sp. ve Afr. ea Pageants pallida, 
Nees, ‘1. ren tr. 275) is = probibl a form 
pan nicles and slightly smaller spikelets. ras my S olleed gs ‘Reklon 1 in Uitenhage 
Division on the Zwartkops River. I have not seen it. 
6. A. capillaris (Stapf in Hook. Icon. Plant. t. 2604) ; eens 
flowering, uppermost internodes at length exserted; leaves loosely 
villous all over ; sheaths rather lax or tumid, the lower beset with rows 
of sessile or subsessile, finely pitted tubercles ; ; ligule a fringe of hairs ; 
blades linear, acute, 19 j in. by 1-12 lin., involute or convolute when 
dry, margins often beset. with stalked pitted tubercles ; panicle 
obovate to pyramidal, 3 in. by 3-4 im., at length very lax ; branches 
mostly 2-nate, eee! Ginko tenonay divided with the spikelets 
approximate at the tips of the ultimate divisions, subdivaricate, 
filiform to capillary, glabrous or finely hairy in the axils, smoot 
except some scattered sessile tubercles ; pedicels capillary, % to almost 
2 lin. long ; spikelets ovate-oblong, 14 lin. long, light green, “ somewhat 
shining ; continuation of rhachilla Budi minute ; clume s ovate-Jan neeo- 
late in — acute to subacuminate, hyaline, pubescent, ]-nerved 5 
anthers 3 lin. long. Holeus capillaris, Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. 1. 412 ; 
ed. Schult. 110 (exel. diagn ), not Prod. 20. Sorghum capillare, 
Roem. & Schult. Syst. i . 840. Andropogon (1) sea siheia Kunth, 
v. Gram. i 510. 
Sourn AFRICA: Peirce ua locality, Thunberg ! 
Thunberg says, “ floscul hermaphrodito mutico, mas aristato ’’ in ith 
le. and in the diagnosis of the species in Fl. Cap. l.e. viene does not agree W 
