560 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Aristida. 
as in. A. congesta, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum.i. 141; Durand & Schinz, 
a Fl. Afr. v. 800. Chetaria Forskolii, Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 
ast ReGion: Cape Div.; Cape Flats, — oe Schlechter, 492! 
Uitenhage Div., Zeyher! Ecklon. Alexandri Enon, 1500-2000 ft., 
Drége, 388! B athurst Div. ; Port Alfred, Fun] ! sods Beaufort Div.; aegis 
the Kunab River and the Kat River, "Droge ; between Hermanns Kra and 
Beautort Castle, Bedi: Komgha Div.; on the Kei River, 500 ft., oan 
in, 2335! 
Centrat Region: Prince Albert Div.; by the Gamka River, near Welte- 
vrede, 2500-3000 ft., Drége! Graaff Reinet Div.; near the Sunday River, 
sentir Prat Ad ! near Graaff Reinet, 2900 ft., Bolus, 677! 
"Kat Transvaal ; Lydenburg, Atherstone ! Orange Free State; 
without p proce locality Buchanan, 
Bas : Natal; near Durban, Williamson! near Tugela, 4000 ft., 
prise 290! Wood, 3588 ! near Colenso, 3000 ft., Wood, 4418! Umsinga 
and base of Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 90! and without precise locality, 
sts as 
to A. congesta, but the branches of the panicle are more numerou 
Ne fonger,¢ the spikelets a little larger, and the mouth of the sheaths is distinctly 
bear the beards sometimes uniting into a ring at the junction of the blade 
and ie ‘shea th. 
10. A. sieberiana (Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdec 61); 
perennial, glabrous ; rhizome short, slender, oblique ; ohne Pa 
erect and “simple or branched and geniculate, +3 ft. long, as 
n 
lower at length slipping from the stem and going; in, smooth ; hale 
arrow, linear, acute, 4-6 in. by 1 lin., convolute, sinciktl below, 
seaberalous to hicpiatius above; "panic usually contracted, narrow, 
6-8 in. long, rarely open and secund ; rhachis straight or somewhat 
flexuous ; branches solitary, 2-nate or fascicled, all or some a ed 
from the base, some undivided for 4-11 in, the longest 23 in. long; 
branchlets short, filiform, scaberulous ; lateral pedicels short ; spike- 
lets pallid or purplish very narrow, up to 10 lin. long; glumes 
unequal, very narrow, the lower sublinear, about 5 lin. long, passing 
into a fine Ceiatla, ee upper linear, bifid, with a bristle 3-4 lin 
long from the sinus, lobes fine; valve teas smooth or almost 89 
4—5 lin. long; callus slender, 12 lin. long; awn stipitate, foot 
slender, twisted, 8-12 lin. long ; 4 bristles fine, 2-24 lin. long ; pale 
& Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 808. Chetaria sieberiana, Roem. & 
Schult. Syst. ii. Mant, iii. 578. 
Kat on: Transvaal; Klip —_— Nelson, 103*! Bosch Veld, 
between Elands abl cat Klippan, Rabin ¢ BLL 
ASTERN ReGion: Delagoa Bay, Mrs. sneer 
Also in Kordofan and in Southern Palestine. 
A variety with a much longer foot to the awn, occurs in Nubia, and another 
with a still longer foot, in German South-west Africa (A. stipitata, Hack. ): 
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