Avenastrum. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 475 
slender, joints up to 1 lin. long, bearded near the tips; glumes 
lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 22 1_3 lin., the upper 4-42 lin. long; 
nie exserted, oblong- -lanceolate, the lowest 31—4 lin. long 
glabrous, light green, slightly purplish below the tips ; obscurely 
granulated, tips searious, 2-toothed, teeth produced into fine bristles 
re lin. ‘long; callus bearded, very short; awn from the middle, 
rather fine, column 23~—3 lin. long, bristle 5- 6 lin. long; pales 3 lin. 
long, keels ciliate ; anthers 1_1 lin. long; ovary pubescent from 
the middle, top hispidulous ; grain 1+ lin. long. Trisetum 
antarcticum, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 346 (partly). 7. imberbe, Nees, 
Le. 347; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 22 28; Durand &§ Schinz, Consp. FI. 
Afr. v. 838, Avena turgidula, Stapf i in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 293. 
SourH Arrica: without locality, Ecklon & Zeyher, 463! 
Coast a — stown Div. ; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Drége! Baur, 776! 
Aliwal North Div. ; Leeuwen Spruit, between Kraai River 
and the Witte Bead, 4500-5000 ft., Drége 
ge 
* AHARI REGION: Transvaal; Pretoria, at Wonderboom Poort, Rehmann, 
Eastern Region: Transkei; Sed eae eee below 1000 ft., . 
Tembuland ; Bazeia, 2000 ft., , 864! msinga, and foot of + 
Biggars ae Buchanan, te ue a a beer 172! Riet Ee 
4000- t., Buchanan, 156! 
5. A. Dodii (Stapf) ; perennial; culms erect, slender, about 3 ft. 
high, g a smooth, 3-4-noded, sheathed all along or nearly so, 
with 1-2 ereet intravaginal branches from the lowest nodes; leaves 
about 3 ala near the base, and 3—4 higher up, distant ; sheaths 
narrow, tight or the na rs er loose, lowest 6-9 in. long, ‘involute, 
glabrous, smooth ; ligules oblong, up to 2 lin. long; blades linear, 
lower tapering fron a long attenuate base to a fine point, 9-20 in. 
by 2-21 lin., flat or with involute margins, rigid, more or less 
glaucous, glabrous, smooth below, strongly ' striate and scabrid on the 
upper surface ; panicle contructe d, oe in. long, narrow, joer 
is 
ery ort or scarcely any ; spikele ts 5-6 lin. long, narrow, 
erect ; pei about 4-5 ; glumes “oni linear-lanceolate, shortly 
aristulate, lower up to 4, se to big long (inclusive of the bristle) 5 : 
li 
thachil slender, joints up to 1 lin , hairs to 1+ lin. long; 
valves distinctly exserted, baie "oe 3 lin. long (up to the 
awn), glabrous, light green, rather firm, finel anulate, tips 
scarious, bifid, lobes produced into fine long bristles ; callus short, 
rather stout, hea rded ; awn from above the middle, fine, s scabrid, 
pallid, column 3-2 lin. long, bristle 6-7 lin. long; pales 2} lin. long, 
keels oan anthers 1 lin. long; ovary puberulous below the 
subobliqu 
Biiiia gies Cape Div.; wet slopes near Oatlands ae Wolley Dod, 2775! 
This differs from A. longum in the long rigid blades, the more crow wded 
smaller spike lets, t re ated of the wigs Gree, illa and the small callus. It is in 
ts in sateen between it and 4. antarcticum. This is, however, 
