550 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Agrostis. 
lc. 173; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 297; Engl. mebal sa 
Trop. Afr. 128; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 829. ‘A. dre regeana, Steud. 
173; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 827 ( from the description). aaa 
lachnanthum, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 148. P. angustum, Nees, l.c. 
147. 
Coast ReGion: Cape Div.; Newlands, in a dry pond Wolley Dod, 3559! | 
Liesbeck River, Bergius; about the ponds at Salt River, Burchell, 681 ! Tulbagh 
Div. ; Tulb: bug Plesoest th Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; in stagnant water by the 
Zwartkops R Ecklon; between Sunday River and Coega River, Drége 
Albany Div. ; pe Mv on the banks of streams, MacOwan, 1846! Catheart 
iv.; bet O: i Zwart i 3500 
Dyrége ! Queenstown Div.; near Shiloh, 3500 Fag Baur, 113 
Pi aL Reaion; Graaff Reinet Div.; the Sneeuw. i — ft., 
olus, fea Aliwal North Div.; Witte Ber, jes, in a cave, 6000 ft 
Western Reaion: Little Nemagualan ion, ‘Batfels (Kousies) River ’ 
and Patek Kloof, 200-3000 t., Dré 
ALAHARI REGION ; Griqualand West, Hay Div.; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 
oil 1944! Orange Free State ; Drakens Bergen, near Harrismith, Buchanan, 
as AstERN Recion: Natal; Umpumulo, 2000 ft., common by streamlets, | 
Buchanan, 280! Riet Vlei, 4000-5000 ft., Buchanan, 286! 
Abyssinia. 
A very variable ean, so far as vo 2 peal areconcerned. Drége’s = imens 
from the Witte Bergen were collec a cave, and represent an extre 
shade 
form. They have been Seaccibed iy "Nees (FL Afr. Austr. 148) as Podloxsimt 
lachnanthum, var. humile. 
A. gymnostyla, Steud. — Pl. Glum. i. 170 (Podosemum gymno ostylum, 
Nees, Ind. Sem. Hort. Vratisl. 1850, and in Linngwa, xxiv. 236. Mii ishlenberavé 
gymnostyla, Walp. Ann. ili. o 3), is in dicated by Stendel from the Cape of & aa 
ope; but it was described from a cultivated specimen n of unknown origin, het 
Fenzl in Ind. Sem. Hort. Vi nao. 1850, says it is identical with Cin 
mexicana, Beauv. 
XLIV. CALAMAGROSTIS, Roth. 
Spikelets very narrow, lanceolate, acuminate, in contracted — 
divided panicles ; thachilla disarticulating aloe = glumes, ota 
very sein continued beyond the floret. Floret1, 3, much sho 
lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, pee lower 1-, upper Sail: 
Nias shortly bifid, 5-3-nerveil with a fine short “dorsal, rarely sub- 
Helge awn; callus small, long hairy, hairs usually much exceeding 
valve. a e 2-nerved, as long as the valve or somewhat eae 
Lodicale 3 2, hyaline. Anthers 3. Ovary glabrous ; styles oa 
short ; stigmas plumose, laterally exserted. Grain enclosed by ae 
hardly changed valve and pale, free, subterete ; hilum basal, sm» 
embryo small. | 
Perennial, usual ther flat; li les seario 
nic ie ora a les “4 ontrasted marty Othe tee ae ‘mo ch ee beaches 
ine short brane hlets and pedicels; florets surrounded by long fine hairs. 
occ on in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere 5, 
South Atr 
