a 
— MacQwan, 1321 | 
Agrostis.] GRAMINEE (Stapf). 547 
or obtuse, minutely ear bapkr or emarginate, scaberulous, keels 
scabrid, margins minutely ciliolate ; valve broa ly oblong, 2 li 
long, truncate, minutely denticulate or ciliolate, smooth, very faintly 
5-nerved, awnless ; pale almost as long as_ the valve, hyaline, 
obscurely 2-nerved, obtuse, tip eonggeort: ‘anthers apiculate, 4-1 lin. 
long; grain broadly obovoid, terete, 3 ein: ong. Trin. Gram. ad 
§ Sesquifl. 195; Gram. Te. t. 36 ; Ayrost. 358, and in Mém 
Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, ii. 370; Rei chb. Ie. - Germ. i, @.. 30, 
9. 1435; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 169; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
Afr. v. a A. alba, var. wi ‘Engl. Hochgebirgsfi. 
Trop Afr. 1 
Oast ReGIon: Cape Div.; Wynberg Park, Wolley Dod, 1816! roadside 
beyond Black River, Wolley Dod, 2200! Muizenberg Viei, Jicpee Dod, 2594! 
Cape Flats, MacOwan , Herb. Aust. Afr., 1794! MacOwan, 3157. 
Throughout the ahaa countries, and as a weed occasionally in other 
parts of the temperate zo 
3. A. bergiana (Trin. Gram. Unifl. & Sesquifi. 203); annual, 
glabrous ; culms ereet or Genteulale-encemtind: ae render, y mooth or 
r 
scaberulous ; ; ligules 1-22 lin. long ; bheies very pains: linear, tabéir- 
ing to a fine point, Ae in, by 2-1 lin., flat, flaccid, minute ly seaberu- 
0 
vel lon ng, glabrous, agen callus minutely bearded ; awn fine, 
. 7s ie, long ; acitteied lin. long, apiculate ; grain oblong, 
2 i long. ae in Linnea, vii, 296 ; Fl. Afr. Austr. 150; Kunth, 
Enum. i, 221; Trin, Agrost. 363; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i.171; Durand 
§ Schinz, Ging Fl. Afr. 826. A. stolonifera, Thunb Prodr, -¥9. 
A. capensis, Steud. in Flora, 1829, 467. A. Ecklonis, Trin. Lc. 
364; Steud. Lc. 171; Durand ¢ Schinz, l.c. 827. 
R.B, leviuseula Na sie leaves almost ager blades glaucescent, the uppe 
rang mF ri ght» nel es; panicle straight, very sien long gest pepneher 
wae Be a little pai 1 lin. long; pale ong as 
slightly’ ta thaw ch 
Bar ION: Clanwill lliam Div.; Olifants River, Ecklon. Cape mi 
ills near Capetown, Thunberg ! Table Mountain, in’ moist places, Ecklon, 913 | 
Burchell, 637! near Ca e Town, Burchell, 492! Drége! Ahirved. 148! evils 
rh 
Div. ; in the forest of Grootvaders Busch, Burchell, 7236! Knysna Div. ; 
tenberg Bay, Mund / Albany Div.; stony places near "Bothas Hill, 2000 ft., 
wn 2 
