Aristida. ] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 557 
scaberulous ; ; lateral pedicels short or almost 0; spikelets a green 
to yellowish, 2-3 near the tips of the branchlets 31-41 lin. long; 
glumes un nequal, thin, acute or subacute, l-nerve ; nerve eae 
long, the upper sublinear; pon linear, convolute, produced into a 
short slightly twisted beak, s long as the upper glume, smooth or 
scaberulous below the beak ; eee “obtuse ; awns continuous with the 
valve, very fine, 7-15 lin. long ; pale = lin, long; lodicules delicate, 
lanceolate, over 1 lin. long; anthers 1 lin. long, not apiculate. 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 140; Durand §& Schinz, Consp. Fl, Afr. v 
804. 
KALanarti REGION: Orange Free State, pag 67! 
JASTERN REGION: Natal; coast land to 1000 ft SF gieedcohs Mohlamba 
0CO-6000 f 1y e Mooi River, Reimann, 
7342 ; near Durban, Williamso on, 34! Plant, 6L! sg isha precise locality, 
Buchanan, 1! 289! Drége, 4349 in the Liibeck He tb,! 
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A. Sciurus (Stapf) ; culms rather stout, over 3 ft. long, with a 
fugacious show-white adpressed woolly indumentum below the 
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involute or setaceously convolute above, over 1 ft. long, 2 lin. broad 
near the base, smoot below, asperulous above ; panicle one 
dense, 1-12 ft. b 1-11 in., erect; rhachis rather stout, smoot 
branches faseicled, the lowest up to 2 ft. long, erect, remotely as 
obgubenis 5-6 lin. long, very slender; glumes very unequal, sent 
thin, minutely truncate _ 2-toothed ‘(when expanded), the low 
lanceolate- -oblong, acute, 2 Sie long, the upper linear-oblong, 5—6 Tin, 
ong; valve linear, 4-5 lin. long, obscurely beaked, beak straight ; 
callus very short ; _— oniiviaien: with the valve, fine, oe 
7-8 lin. Jon ng; pale lin. long; lodicules few-nerved, 3 lin. long ; 
anthers 3 lin. long, “is minutely apiculate. 
Kat aan REGIoN: Transvaal; Zebedelis Kraal, near the Inkumpi River, 
Tite 26%! 
Eastern Region : : Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, 471! 
Similar to A, setacea, Retz., and A. multieaulis, Baker, but differing from both 
in the woolly, rather stout, a wiry and apparently simple culms and in the 
Woolly hgules. 
6. A. Burkei (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted, glabrous; culms ra ther 
slender, erect, 2 ft. long, wiry, smooth, 2-noded, sheathed from the 
lower node to the panicle ; sheaths firm, tight ; ligule a line of very 
short hairs or the lowest a tuft of wool ; _— coarsely setaceous, 
involute, 3~l ft. long, firm, curved or flex the uppermost 
exceeding the panicle, smooth below ; panicle abou $ ft. by 2 ft., 
Very lax ; rhachis s mooth ; branches distant, 2_3-nate, up to 6 in, 
long, scantily and remotely branched, filiform, scaberulous or smooth 
below ; ; branchlets capillary, flexnoian: ; pedicels as long as the spike- 
