Chetobromus. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 539 
smooth, 6—12-noded, lower internodes 1-11 in. long, slender, upper 
3 much longer, stouter, shortly exserted ; leaves glabrous except at 
the sometimes scat itily bearded mouth of the sheaths ; ; sheaths rather 
loose, lower more or less slippin 
acute point, 6-10 in. by 11-24 in., flat, striate, smooth or obscurely 
oe and glaucous. from wax ek on the upper 
out 2 in. long, obliquely erect, filiform, glabrous, smooth below ; 
cee Re and pedicels contracted, soe ; pedicels very unequal, 
deciduous part 11—2 lin, long, bearde z Way, hairs equalling the 
joiut ; spikelets 71-8 lin. long, light “ack eft erect ; florets 
3-4; glumes acute or mucronulate, scabrid on the keel and 
produc ed into a fine bristle (about 2} lin. ae ; awn "6-7 lin. wie 
kneed at or couse the middle, very slender ; ; lowest valve 21-23 lin, 
long, glabro those above 2 lin. long (excluding the callus), 
ee Raticeneni, with a callus up to 1 lin, long; pales 23-2 lin, 
long ; anthers 22 lin, long. 
meen Reeion: Cape Div.; Puarden Island, Wolley Dod, 3078! 
This is probably identical with Schrader’s Avena involucrata, in Goett. Gel. 
Anzeig. 1821, iii. 2075 (Da athena inn rape , Schrad, in Schult. Mant. ii. 383 ; 
m. i. 317; ‘Trin. Gram. Gen. 7 1, tt in Mém. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 71. 
Pentameris involucrata, Nees in Linnza, vii. 310 
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Imperfectly known species. 
2-spiculate ; oeieclh hewoilly covered with ei "erect hairs 
5 li ng; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, scabrid, 5-nerved ; florets 
2; valves 2 lin. long, glabrous, smooth, faintly eh lateral 
bristles 12 lin. long, awn 41-5 lin, long, pe? at 2 of its length. 
Danthonia intercepta, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 243; De tat 5 
Schine, 351. 
Coast Reaion: « Cape District, Groote Post.” Collector not mentioned. 
Similar a en Nees, according to the author, but differing in the 
gl edee os 
XXXIX. ARUNDO, Linn. 
Spikelets 2~7-flow red, laterally compressed, in very compoun 
panicles, rhachilla diciGedlsting above the glumes and between the 
Mir joints shori, glabrous; florets Date iheoaiiay the uppermost 
ced. Glumes equal, broadly lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 
ete membranous, 3-5-nerved. Valves move or less cqualling the 
