Aristida.) GRAMINE® (Stapf). 561 
1. A. vestita (Thunb. Prod. Cap. 19); perennial, light green to 
renter rhizome very short, with dense tufts of barren shoots and 
culms, the latter erect, 1-2 ft. high, simple, 2-1-noded, terete, wiry, 
eohaee. smooth ; sheaths tight, smooth, scarcely striate, glabrous or 
the lower more or less covere with a very fugacious wool ; ligule a 
inches to more than 1 ft. by scarcely 1 lin. when expanded, rigid, 
curved or flexuous Meee smoot ip ow, seabrid to hisp idulous 
above; panicle effuse or contracted, 3-6 in. by 2-5 in.; rhachis 
strict or flexuous; lower branches Q- 3. -nate 5-8 in. long, usually 
spreading, sparingly and remotely branched ; branchlets very flexuous, 
filiform i capillary, scaberulous ; pedicels very fine, the longest 
equalling the spikelets; spikelets often secund, nodding, agg nk 
rarely purplish, 5-6 lin + tong § glumes rather firm, rounded at the 
back, obtuse or more or loss 2 “toothed, the lower linear- penal oe ut 
2 the length of the upper or less, this narrow lan ceolate- linear, 
5 lin. long ; valve linear, 41-5! lin. long, not beaked, scaberulous 
from the middle or almost smooth ; callus } lin, ae ; awn disar- 
ticulating from the valve, stipitate, foot i 21 lin _ long, twisted, 
bristles divaricate or the interal upright, 2-1 in, long; pale broad, 
y lin. long ; lodicules 2—5 lin, long, finely nerved ; anthers 2+ lin. 
Le, 
Ayrost. 30. “Art thratherum Hystriz, Nees in Linnea, vil. . 
lanuginosum, Burch. lc. 612 (index), A. vestitum, Nees, Fl. Afr. 
ustr, 17-4. 
ie parviflora (Trin. & Rupr. le. 158); culms branched with several 
naked wiry internodes below ; blidon finer than in the type, alg oi 
hed contracted, very narrow; spikelets 5 lin. long; valve 34 lin. lon 
Var. 
usnall Vv 
Var. +, schraderiana (Trin, & Rupr. le. 158) ; spikelets 7~8 lin. long ; valve 
7 Wa; foot of awn 1-2 lin., bristles 1}-12 in. 
any art ves : bya er Thunberg ! ! Boivin! Zeyher, 1811! 
ease Cape Diy ; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 976! Swellendam Div. ; 
: reede River and y Aerie Hinde River, Burchell, 7491! Uite: thage 
WV. 5 near the Zwartkops River, 50-500 ft. , Zeyher, 4504! Ecklon ; between 
- and Koega River, Drége. i 
¥ Windvogel Berg. Pay 0 ft., Dre n Div. ; Engotini 
. ége. Quee ig , 
ied Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 964! between the Klipplats gies pee the Zwart 
ve re inte Hincliams Nek, near Queenstown, 4009 ft., Galpin, 2383! 
Di ! t Eli beth Div. 3 ; hear 
Port Blizabere, ESC. a en Harvey, 153! Port iza 
Rie REGION ; Prince A sine. Div.; near Senet say the Gamka 
Di? 2300 ft., Dréye! near Klaarstroom, 2300-3000 fs., Drége. _ Aberdeen 
2000. oe 2500-3000 ft., Dréve. Somerset Div.; Little Fish Riv 
¥OL Yay » Drége, Blyde: River,. Bur: chell, 2978! Graaff — — ; hill. 
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