Aristida. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 559 
into a ng mucro, 3 lin. long, the upper linear, emarginate, long 
mucronate, 3}—5 lin. long; valve linear, produced into a short 
twisted beak, usually slightly deat than the upper glume, minutely 
scaberulous above ; callus 2 lin. long; awns jointed with the valves, 
bi not disarticulating, diverging, fine, 5-7 lin. long ; pale not quite 
z lin. long, nerveless or almost so; lodicules as lin. long, 5-6- 
nerved ; anthers $ lin. long; grain o 18 long, deeply 
grooved. Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. t. 172; Enum. i. ; Suppl. 
152; Trin. & Rupr. Stip. 153; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 142; 
§ 
Durand f aos: Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 802 ; Hack. in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv. App. iii. 18. A. coarctata, Lichtenst. ex Roem. § Schult. 
lec. 401. Cheetaria congesta, Nezs, Fl. Afr. Austi 
Sourm AFRIcA: nme precise pepraene Zeyher, 1818! 
Coast REGron : Uitenhage Div. ; Steenboks Flats, Ecklon 5; Zeyher ! Kom- 
gha Div.; Kei River, 500 ft, Droge. Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Bawr, 55! 
Wodehouse Div. ; Indwe, Baur, 
CENTRAL ReGion: Somerset oa ; Bowker, 184! 148! oer Reinet Div. ; 
near Graaff Keinet, 2900 ft., Bolus, 679! Colesberg Div. ; r Oolesberg, in 
crevices of rocks, 4500 ft., Drege ! ‘Shaw, 16! Albert £ Dives without precise 
ESTERN REGION : Great Namaqualand; Gubub, Schinz, 657! Warmbad, 
Wandres, 19! 
Katanart Recion: Prieska Div. ; near Keikams Poort, ede 1612! 
Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Witte Water ” Lichtenstain, betw n Griqua atown 
r 
49! Bee 
land; Mar 96! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone ! Bosch Veld, 
ef the Elands joa Rehmann, 4999 ! Pretoria Div., at Kameel Poort, Welson, 
oes Region: Natal, Buchanan, 124! 
ve; 
flexuous, smooth ; branches solitary, distant, filiform, spreading, 
flexuous or straight, seaberulous, dense, spike-like from 1—1} in. above 
the base; pedicels very short ; spikelets 32 lin. long ; glumes keeled, 
the lower lanceolate, shortly mucronate, 2 lin. long, keels smooth or 
scabrid, the upper linear, emarginate, mucronate, 32 lin. long ; valve 
‘Near, produced into a short, stout, tightly twi isted beak, somewhat 
shorter than the upper glume, minutely scaberulous gr the beak ; 
callus than 3 lin. long; awns jointed with the valve, not 
disarticulating, fine, 5-9 lin. long ; ae LE denlan ii and grain 
