Aristida. ] GRAMINES (Stapf). 555 
Rupr. Stip.127 and 129. A. Wee Hochst. § Steud. ge ie 
ec Trin. §& Rupr. lc. 129. A. laxa, Willd. (not Cav.) ex 
Rupr. Le. 180. A. vulgaris, Trin. § Rupr. lc. 181-136 ere vars. 
ethiopica, senegalensis, Ehrenbergii, spieigera). A. nutans, Ehren 
§ Hempr. ex Trin. §& Rupr. le. 135, A. pusilla, Trin. § Rupr. 
Le. 140; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. Pans Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. 
Ajr. v.807, A. swartziana, A. ritima, A. nana, A. ‘arabica, A. 
tenuiflora, A. modatica, A.  danptteleteas teud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 
7-139. A cheetophylla and A. Tene fe, ie d. le, 420. 0- 
chloa, Hochst. in faa 1855, 200. A. vulpioides, Hance in Ann. Se. 
Nat. sér. 5, v. 25 4. Heymanné, er “" Act. Hort. phe vii. 
(1880) 649. ee ascensionis, C. canariensis, C. cerulescens, 
C. depressa, C. elatior, C. gigantea, and C. suai, Beauv. 
Agrost, 30, es hamslie, C. bromoides and C. coarctata, Roem 
Schult. Syst. . 396. C. nana, Nees ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 340. 
C. mauritiana, ie Fl. Afr. Austr. 188. 
AST pean: Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Zeyher! Steenboks Flats, 
Beklon & Zeyher 
Centra, pia : Ceres Div.; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, 
Burchell, 1266! i Div. ; ae 149! Graaff Reinet Div. s stony hills 
near the Sunday River, 1500-2000 ft., Drége ! mountain sides near Graaff Reinet, 
2900 ft., Bolus, 678! Calvinia Diy.; between Lo a Plaats and Springbok 
Kuil, Zeyher, 1817! A — Div., Cooper, 778! 1364! 
WEsTtERN ReEGIon: Little "Namaqu aland; between Holgat River sg 
Fig River, Drage ! between Buffels River and Silver Fontein, 2000 f 
ew ARI Region: Griqualand West, Hay Div.; between the Kloof 
‘tts « an a Witte Water, Burchell, 2083! between Witte Water and Riet 
Fontein, Burchell, 2006 ! Orange Free State; between Kimberley and Bloem- 
fontein, Buchanan, 283 
Common in most fe and hot countries. 
_ Drage’s i m Little Namaqualand represent Nees’s Chetaria mauri- 
- nana (A rte dae tis Steud.). I consider them only as very dwarfed 
pase of this specie 
t , 
nodes exserted; ‘sheaths very tight throughout, smooth ; aretin a 
minutely ciliolate rim; blades setaceously convolute, fine, 2-4 in 
long, firm, strongly curved, smooth below, minutely puberulous on 
the upper surface, margins s scabri id; panicle ’linear-oblon ng, contracted, 
or somewhat open and lax, 3-4 in. ‘Jong ; ; rhachis filiform, smooth or 
subse aberulous ; branches remotely 2- or 3-nate, or = upper solitary, 
owe ae oblique, longest up more than 2 in. g and sparsely 
divided from the middle, the others almost a subeapillary, 
Scaberulous; branches 1-3-spiculate; lateral icels very short ; 
spikelets oe or tinged with purple, 4-5 lin. long; glumes 
“qual or subequal, lanceolate-linear, shortly mucronate from the 
uinutely 2-toothed tips, l-nerved ; valve linear-convolute, 3} lin. 
