556 GRAMINE& (Stapf). [ Aristida, 
long, produced into an often slightly exserted and more or less 
twisted almost solid scabrid beak, minutely scaberulous below it, 
violet; awns continuous with the valve, capillary, suberect, 
scaberulous, about 10-15 lin. long; pale oblong, acute, slightly over 
2 lin. long ; lodicules about as long as the pale. 
Katanari ReGion: Transvaal; Pretoria Distr., at Kudus Poort, Rehmann, 
4696! Klip Spruit, Nelson, 96* ! 
branched, wiry, 1-11 ft. long, about 3-noded, internodes exserted ; 
sheaths very tight, often sligntly widened at the base, the lower 
sometimes woolly ; blades setaceously convolute, rather ‘fine, up to 
8 ft. long, curved or flexuous, smooth below, densely pubescent 
or hispidulous and almost white above ; panicle very narrow, often 
spike-like, 2-4 in. long; rhachis straight or flexuous ; branches solitary, 
the longest up to 1+ in. long, scantily branched ; branchlets filiform ; 
lateral pedicels very short; spikelets yellowish, 41-51 lin. long; 
glumes unequal, oblong-linear, usually shortly mucronate, the lower 
2-81 lin. long, acute, the upper about 4 lin. long, acute or minutely 
truncate ; valve linear, convolute, produced into a short or usually 
more or less twisted), scaberulous below the beak ; callus 2 lin. long; 
awns continuous with the valve, divaricate 5-7 lin. long, fine ; pale 
hyaline, 2 lin. long ; lodieules 5-nerved, Z lin. long ; an nthers "14-2 
lin, long, not apiculate, 
Coast Region: Cape ; between Newlands and Clairmont, Bat ey Dod, 
2387! Sand Road near Clairmont Wolley Dod, 2388! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh, 
Schlechter, 7509! orcester Div.; mountains chess: “Worcester 
Rehman, seal 587! 2667! Cathcart Div. ; Windvogel Mountain, 3500 ft 
Baur 
searesante ReGion: Transvaal; Magalies Berg, E.S.C.A. Herb. 304! Hol 
Fontein, Nelson, 79*! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5667! Bosch Veld, between the 
Elands River and Klippan, Rehmann, 5112! 
4. A. junciformis (Trin. & Rupr. Stip. 143); perennial, loosely 
exspitose, sometimes stoloniferous; rhizome slender, 0 oblique oF 
ereeping, covered like the innovation-buds with imbricate short 
ovate acute or pungent scales ; culms fascicled, erect, 1— 1; ft. long, 
villous ; blades very narrow, gradu passing i aie Ona 
eubsetaceous, acute, up to 1 ft. long, rigid, convolute or eyaen below, 
curved or flex xuous, smooth below, minutely scaberulou s above; 
cle narrow, 2-6 ’ 
branches fascicled, erect, flexuous o or psn YF the lowest +2 in 
