562 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Aristidd. 
sides near Graaff Reinet, 2500-2700 ft., Bolus, 459! Colesberg Div. PO 
Shaw, 22! Albert Div.; near ae in the Klein Buffel Valei, 4500-5000 
Drege. tam Cooper, 3372 
WesTERN Reeion : Var. B: Little iedesapeabical Silver Fontein, near Ookiep, 
Katanart REG ualand West, Hay ; Griqua Town, Burchell, 
1842! 1917! Aiba Mountains, at the Kloof Villees, Burchell, 2038! Basuto- 
Jand ; Leribe, ao anan, 124! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone! 
Potgeiters Rust, near the Nylst room, ale , BBY! Bosh _— between Elands 
‘River and Klippan, Raman, 5124! Apies River, Nelson, 5* 
Also i in Hereroland. 
Trinius and Ruprecht, l.c., distinguished 7 varieties (diffusa, densa, ecklonia 
schr ihe perritors brevi ss ager and koa -h i ada of these, only the 
2 abov Tee mibed a = ko me fair ee characte 
ribin is A. a Neen ov equal glumes, was misled 
Thu n des ng h 
by the pike splitting of the ed ohanle into 2 aout halves, whilst the upper 
1 
lume is in most of the spikelets of his specimens so tightly rolled round the 
floret that it — as the lower = rt of it 
ee upper ‘surface, side w, glabrous; panicle oblong or ovate, 
lax, open, nodding, up to 1 ft. Jong; rhachis Mgt slender, smooth ; 
branches distantly 2-nate or solitary, lowest to 8 in. long, 
obliquely spreading, remotely and _ repeatedly Lexus filiform, 
seaberulous ; branchlets and aati eal flexuous, the latter 
to) 
ar. 
— not beaked, finely scaberulous ; callus slender, shortly bear 
in. long ; awn disarticulating from the valve, stipitate ; foot 23 
iong, twisted ; bristles fine, scaberulous, spreading, the middle up t? 
1+ in,, the lateral 10 lin. long; pale ovate, 2 3 om long; lodicules 
ovate-oblong, nerved, 2 lin. long ; anthers 23-23 lin. long, cells 
—— apiculate. 
AHARI REGION: Transvaal; Pretoria Div., at Kudus Poort, — — 
is: A. stipoides (Lam. Illustr, i. 157, not R. Br.) va 
r. meri 
(Stapf) ; agen: compactly tufted with a paeer" fanovation ‘ 
shoots; culms erect, 3 ft. or more long, simple or sparingly branches 
terete, glabrous, smooth, 2-3-noded; sheaths tight or lease, ne 
narrow lin near, up to 11 ft. by 1-22 lin., setanedualy convo 
flexuous, subglaucous, smooth below, scabrid above ; panicle 
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