Aristida. ] GRAMINEX (Stapf). 563 
very lax, 1-11 ft. by 3-1 ft.; rhachis striet or flexuous, smooth ; 
branches 2-3-nate , spreading the lower 4-8 in. long, repeatedly and 
remotely branched ; branchlets filiform to capillary, flexuous ; pedicels 
capillary, as long as the spikelets or longer ; spikelets very scattered, 
yellowish, 4-5 lin. long ; glumes very unequal, rather firm, forded 
a-s 88 long as the ss dag the latter lanceolate-linear, 2-tvothed ; 
valve linear, not beaked, 4 shorter than the spies glume, smo oth, 
ed with i 
mottl ith purple ; callus 1-8 lin. long; awn dicartionlabing, 
stipitate, foot 21-6 lin, long, eae? twisted, Txitlos up to 1 in. 
long, fine; pale broad, over 2 lin. long; — ules finely nerved ; 
anthers 2 lin. long; grain fusiform, 3-4 lin 
Katanari Recion: Griqualand West; Hunernest Kloof, Rehmann, 3386! 
range Free State, Buchanan, 56! 68! between Kimberley and Bloewfontein, 
Buchanan, 281! Be chuanaland ; between Kuruman and Matlareen River 
Ul, 2188 ! 
The typical form is loosely tufted w ith ver ge few innovation shoots, and perhaps 
ere eee annual. It has less convolte or fi rap ge longer spikelets (6-74 lin, 
ong) and : bri 
tae 114, f. 
§ Schinz, l.c. 803. Chetarta penne Roem. ¥ Schult. Syst. ii. 393. 
Arthratherum comosum, Gay ex Kunth, l.c 
14. A. sericans (Hack. in Bull. Herb. wie ae 381) ; perennial, 
densely tufted; culms very slender, erect, 1 ft. long, wiry, softly 
airy, 1-node d, internodes exserted ; eT very tight, striate, 
hairy all over except at the nodes ; blades finely setaceous, convolute, 
acute, up to 8 in. long, glaucous, hairy below, hispidulous. above ; 
panicle spike-like, rather dense, narrow, up to 3 in, long, erect ; 
thachis hair ry; branches solitary or 2-3-nate, adpressed, the iigiak 
2~1 in. long, simple, 1-spieulate or very sparin ed; branch- 
lets and pedicels hairy or scabrid ; spikelets yellowish or purplish, 
6-7 lin, g; glumes lanceolate to linear, minate, hairy or 
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glabrous, 3- nerved, the lower 5-6 lin. long, acute, the upper 6-7 lin. 
with hy aline tips; valve linear, produced into a short twisted hairy 
beak, 33-4 lin. long, purple, smooth; callus } lin. long; awns 
continuous with the valve, the middle one 4-5 lin. long, all plumose 
except at the v. ery tips ; pale over 1 lin. long, obtuse, nerveless ; 
— finely nerved, over 2 lin. long ; anthers 2 lin. lo ong. 
P HARI ReGion: Tra ia Hooge Veld, at Standarton, Rehmann, 6793! 
war near Apies Poort, p-traniatiy 4046 ! 
15. A. ciliata (Desf. in Schrad. Neues Journ. iti. 255) ; perennial, 
compactly cespitose, with numerous, usually short innovation 
Shoots ; — geniculate, slender, 1-2 ft. long, piers smooth, 
ke ~3-n ed, rnodes exserted ; sheaths wriwded at the base, the 
owest fisiar whitish, firm, persistent woolly near the margins 
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