558 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Aristida, 
lets or shorter; spikelets yellowish, secund, often nodding, 5-6 lin. 
long; glumes iis her firm, rounded at the tuk, obtuse or emarginate, 
not mucronate, the upper twice as long as the lower; valve linear, 
produced into a short slightly twisted — smooth, somewhat 
exceeding the upper saa callus 2 lin. long ; awns continuous with 
the valve, up to 1 in, long, fine; pale broad, 4 lin. long, 2-nerved ; 
lodicules 2 lin. long ; ‘anthers 2 lin. long, cells apiculate. 
Katawari Recion : aa Free State; near the Vaal River, Burke, 169! 
near Hoopstad, Grindon Her 
7. A. bipartita (Rupr. & Trin. Stip. 144) ; perennial, light green to 
glaucous ; Diesen short, oblique with compact tufts of short barren 
shoots and culms, these erect or ascending 
below the nodes, about 3-noded; basal sheaths short, compressed, 
firm, persistent, whitish, the upper widened and loose in the upper 
part, at length open, smooth or bearded at the mouth ; blades very 
narrow . linear, acute, 1-4 in. by 1 lin, rigid, curved, "folded, ee 
. bY 
1-3-spiculate at the tips, filiform, straight or flexuous, scabrid ; latera 
pedicels very short ; spikelets 3-4 lin. long, sometimes purplish ; 
glumes subequal, linear- hcetets, abruptly and shortly mincrone 
or the upper emarginate; valve linear, not or obscurely beaked, a 
long as the glumes or slightly shorter, smooth or finely Pisces or 
above, purplish ; callus 1 lin. long; awns continuous with the vaiv®, 
subequal, divaricate, 4 lin. long; pale 2 lin. long, shortly 2-nerved 5 
a up to 3 lin. long, 3- grt ved; anthers 1-2 lin. long. ewd. 
. Glum. i. 140; Dura nd Sching, ie Fl. Afr. v. 801. 
Paar bipartita, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
Sourm AFRICa: without precise ie 1810 
oast Recion: Fort Beaufort Div.; Kat River, Dr ity 
CENTRAL Pecita: Somerset Div. ; Bowker 6! 
1 Re@ron: Orange Free e; Vaal eng Erte 430! Bloem- 
—— Rehmann, 3736! facitotand: Leribe, Buchan 
stern REGion : Natal; Biggars Berg, iienens 7108! 
8. ngesta (Roem. et Schult. Syst. ii. 401); perennial, 
tufted, tight green or glaucous, glabrous ; culms slender, ‘vather wiry; 
erect or geniculately ascending, compressed below, 1-2 ft. lo 
simple or branched from some of the lower nodes, 3—-4- noded ; sheaths 
tight, smooth ; blades usually very narrow, linear, acute, 1-6 in. by 
1 lin., rarely larger, usually folded or convolute, rigid, curve ed, rarely 
flat, smooth below, seabrid to hispidulous above; panicle spike-like, 
often interrupted, with 1-2 shortly peduncled, more or less spre reading 
lateral pseudo-spikes, 2-6 in. long; pedicels very short; spikelets 
densely crowded, 33—4 lin., rarely up to 5 lin. long; glumes” keeled, 
keels smooth or almost so, the lower lanceolate, gradually 
