564 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Aristida, 
below, the upper tight, long bearded at the nodes and at the mouths ; 
blades coarsely setaceous, ‘convolute, those of the innovation shoots 
sometimes very short, recurved or like those of the culms up to 
4+ ft. long, rigid, glabrous, smooth below, minutely hairy above; 
panicle narrow, oblong-linear, usually contracted and strict, 4-6 in. 
long ; rhachis ee branches erect, solitary, often bifid near to or 
branched from ab Bess biaichlees filiform, few spiculate, tips 
clavate ; lateral castes short ; spikelets linear-oblong, 5-6 lin. long, 
straw-coloured or purplish ; glumes subequal, linear-oblong, emat- 
ginate, firm, 3-nerved, usually glabrous ; valve cylindric, 5-6 lin. long, 
ies the side-bristles hin fine, abet ci 2 lin: loi 
lodicules few-nerved, % lin. long; i i 
cylindric, truncate, 14 lin. long; hilum as long as the grain. 
iil, Fl. Boypte, 31, t. 13, fig. 3; Aunth, Enum. i. 195 ; Suppl. 150 
Trin. § Rupr. Stip. 163; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 175 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 143; Boiss. Fl. Or. v. 494, A. plumosa, 
Desf. Fl. Atlant. i, 109, not Linn. A. Schimper’, Hochst. § agi 
ex Trin. § Rupr. lc. 164. A. (?) piligenu, Burch. Trav. 1. 288 
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= 
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centrifuga, Burch. Tra 266. Arthratherum ciliatum, Nees 
Linnea, vii. 289; Jaub. § pe Tl. Pl. Or. t.334. A. papain i, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 178.  Schistachne saluate Fig. § N 
Mem. Ace. Torin. sér. 2, xii. (1852) 252. 
Coast ReGion: Clanwilliam Ve) Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8338! 
Cape Div. ; near Capetown, Schlec 37 ! bok 
CENTRAL REGION: Calvini ngs ; betw n Lospers Aging - bot 
et River, 2000-3000 ft., Zeyher, 1812 ! ! Prin ince Albert Div s Fontein, 
Soe Burke, 22! Gamka tices, Mund § Maire! Somerset Div. ; Ub ater aserburg 
ik Ri 
iver, Schenck, 326! Little Namaqualand, ar the aa. SS 
Orange fem ik eestnng fG.5 a 2548! Bitterwater, "2500 ft ikams 
Kat 1 ReGion : Prieska Div. ; between Modder Vontein sid “Keika 
Poort, “Burchell, 1612/4! 
Hackel describes (in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 18) two varieties, V aan 
tricholena with the ek of the upper glume rigidly ‘ciliate above the male, gut 
var. villosa, wit sheaths and ate woolly. To the mabe he refers spec!™ — 
collected by Schiuz at Liideritzhafen (672, see above), and by Sch agsem _ ‘4 
Nama and Tschirub (10), to the tatver, Schenck’s 327 Sota ni Anib Plai 
_ Also in Nubia and throughout the southern part of the MediterraneaD wg 
Steudel (Syn. Pl. Glum i.144) indicates A, ye me aa from the Capeof not 
ne issn = mp reer uniplum e, Dré, Ace ex parte.” ee wie 
specimen a, § 
specimen ma ze Dela 
aud numbered 901. This, geen is ruicete A. ciliata, Desf. A. pungens, ” ‘Dr. 
indicated by Hackel in Bull. Her v. App. iii. 19, as collected by 
Schenck near Aus in Great Nitsnauan is nclich also A. ciliata. 
