Calamagrostis. | GRAMINEE (Stapf). 551 
1. C. epigeios (Roth, Tent. Fl. Germ. i. 34) var. capensis gee 
culms tufted on a creeping rhizome, erect, rather stout, 2-3 ft. 
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tapering to a setaceous a up to more 7 1 y 3-24 lin, 
ow, 5-6 in, qr erect ; ‘ache teeahe scabrid ; branches 
fascicled, erect or the lower suberect, closely and repeatedly branched, 
lowest almost to 2 in. long; branchlets and pedicels filiform, very 
short, scabrid; spikelets pallid, straw-coloured, ne appt case 
very aay 3-31 lin. long; eer subequa 
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from 3 to way 0 whe ove the base, 11-14 lin oe callus hairs 2 lin. 
long ; ‘pale 3—¢ lin. a ng; an mihiers 378 lin. long. C. ig a 
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rapes “ng : Aliwal North "ihidea at the foot of the Witte Bergen, 
4500-5000 iene ! 
meee ae REGION : Griqualand West, Hay Div.; at Griqua Town, Burchell, 
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apex of the r achilla is pi discernible as a very minute point at the base 
of the pale in the European specimens ; but I have never seen it produced and 
hairy as in the South Afriean variety. 
XLV. ARISTIDA, Linn. 
A se 1-flowered, narrow, panicled, rhachilla hepertrns 
ve the epee th t produced. eaboizs asually persistent, narrow, 
1-8-nery ed, muticous or e, awnless, Valu we rage 
i Ovary glabrous ; styles distinct, short ; stigmas 
aterally exserted. Grain slender, cylindric or oblong-cy lindrie, 
