Anthowanthum.] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 467 
glabrous or very rarely reversedly hairy or scaberulous, striate, 
usually very much shorter than the internodes, the basal bladeless ; ; 
ligules scarious, white tray obtuse, 1-2 lin. long ; blades linear, 
n. by 1 
very similar to the preceding, ¢, or sometimes empty, with a straight 
or kneed awn (3-4 lin, long) from below the middle of the valve ; ; 
uppermost floret 3, 1 lin. long, 5-nerved; anthers up to 11 lin. 
ong, Fhe dregeana, Nees ex Trin. Phalar. 37. H. Drege, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 9; ees Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 14; Durand § 
Schinz, ind Fl. male 798. 
: Cap ee the rai ent aig Claremont and Kenilworth, 
Wolley Dod, ‘3116! by Thanponberg Vley, Wolley Dod, 3112! Paarl Div.; by the 
Berg River, in the Klein Drakenstein Phe Drege! ! Worcester Div.; Hex 
Ribas Valley, “the Willows,” Wolley Dod, 3708! 
Hier erochloa Tongo (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 7), as represented by Drége’s 
Specimen from the Cederbergen, Clanwilliam Div. (2558 !), is perhaps a weak 
state of A. dregeanwm, The spikelets are rather em the glumes thinner a and 
Ad ers etimes 
reduced t 
anthers or filaments, and also in most of the acer examined t 
Phrodite flower was sf elgg | developed. It seems to be s pecially distinet 
from what Nees ribed as H. Tongo, var. minor hod fn simplex, which 
answer to Trinius’s abeoen Tongo and A, tent 
Wolle oe “ae 8 specimens from see ea ig 2 psi a dori vigorous state 
with ba ynine rig See! e stigmas of which so bifid. A similar 
condition « of Hierochloa australis, gi & Schult., is deveined by Hackel in 
Bot, Centralb. viii, (1881), 
3. A. a (Stapf) ; culms ascending, geniculate, Mier slender 
'o filiform, weak, copiously branched below, }—1 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, 3—4-no ded, uppermost internode by far the longest, <i 
few striations, those of the flow wering branches dinttee than the 
internodes ; ligules searious, white, oblong, acute or obtuse, }—1 lin. 
long ; blades subfiliform to setaceous, flat or folded, up to 3 in. by 
a5 n.; smooth, glabrous, few-nerved ; panicle contracted, narrowly 
oblong, up to 1 in. long, rather loose ve reduced to a scanty raceme ; 
The glabrous ; ; pedicels scaberulous or hairy, up to 12 lin. long; 
spikelets oblo ny, 32 lin. long, shiny ; oes broadly-lanceolate to 
usually q, rare’ rarely sm baie no about 2 lin, a. obseurely 3—5-nerved, 
With a short straight awn from 1 way below the tip; intermediate 
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