474 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Avenastrum. 
awn from the middle, column 3-5 lin. long, bristle 6-8 lin. long; 
pales linear-lanceolate, 4 lin. long; keels ciliate; anthers 11-14 lin. 
long; ovary hairy above the middle. Trisetum barbatum, Nees, 
Fl. Afr. Austr. 345, not Steud. T. dregeanum, Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 227; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 838. 
Western Reeton: Little Namaqualand; Roode Berg and Ezels Kop, 
3000-4000 ft., Drége, 2625! 
3. A. quinquesetum (Stapf) ; culms 11~3 ft. long, glabrous, about 
2-noded, sheathed to 2—3 in. below the panicle ; leaves 4—6 near the 
glabrous ; panicle contracted, rather dense, narrow, 5-6 in. long, 
strict or subflexuous; branches fascicled, very unequal, branched from 
near the base, adpressed to the rhachis, the longest up to 2 in. long ; 
spikelets 5-6 lin. long, very loosely 2- to sub-3-flowered ; glumes 
the middle, column pallid, 4-5 lin. long, bristle 8-9 lin. long ; pales 
43 lin. long, keels ciliolate ; anthers 11 lin. long; ovary pubeseent 
near the hispidulous top. Avena quinqueseta, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 
485; Kunth, Enum. i. 305. Trisetum Steudelii, Nees in Linnea, 
vii. 308; Fl. Afr. Austr. 349; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 228; Durand § 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 840, 
Coasr Reaion: Cape Div.; without locality, Harvey, 295! Table Mountain, 
Ecklon, $29! 
ligule truncate, up to } lin. long ; blades linear, tapering to an acute 
point, up to 6- in. by 12 lin, flat or involute, subflaccid or more oF 
less rigid, subglaucous, glabrous, rarely scantily hairy, scaberuious 
ranched or simple, erect or a few spreading, filiform, seabrid 5 
spikelets 4-5} lin. long, greenish, compactly 3~4-fluwered ; rhachilla 
