566 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Aristida. 
WesterRN REGION: VAR. . a Namaqualand ; Kamies Bergen, Ecklon! 
-.. Kas spambots — ft., and in the plains between Kuil and 
r Fon , 3500 f , Dr sch Vaithyn nsdorp Div. ; Karee Bergen, 1500 ft., 
totoonter, 33131 near Ebeneeer, Drége 
ratherum capense 8, Nees, Fl. te Austr. 176, from Tulbagh and Paarl 
Mountains belongs probably to var. B, which, coun represents hardly more 
than individual variatio 
with ahi, of erect branches from the lower or the middle 
nodes, several feet fh glabrous, rar ; Seas very tight, firm, 
pallid, glabrous, and smooth or hairy, longer or slightly shorter than 
nodes ; blades setaceous or subulate , convolute, 1-8 in. long, 
when short, then very rigid and pungent, glaucous, glabrous, smooth 
below, hispidulous above; panicle narrow, linear, more or less con- 
tracted, 3-8 in. long; rhachis straight or subflexuous, smooth; branches 
solitary, erect or suberect, bifid orsparingly branched from near the base, 
the lowest 1-2 in. long, scabrid and filiform like the branchlets ; lateral 
pedicels very much shorter than the spikelets, the latter yellowish, 
6-7 lin. Jong; glumes rather firm, lanceolate to linear, acuminate, 
3-nerved, glabrous, tips minutely truncate or 2-toothed, involute, the 
lower shorter ; valve subcylindric, 3-42 lin. long, glabrous, smooth, 
produced into and articulated with a straight or slightly twisted beak, 
articulated at or below the middle; callus? lin. long; bristles plumose 
to the very tips, the middle 9- 12 lin. long ; pale. broad, 3 3 lin. long, 
nerveless ; lodicules 3 lin. long, fow-nerved ; anthers 21 lin. long. 
Trin. § Rupr. Stip. 174; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 145 ; ‘Durand 5 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. ¥.805 ; Hack.in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iti 
19. A.(?) fruticans, Burch. Trav. i. 492. Arthratherum namagquense, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 185. “Aristida capensis a, Thunb. MS.” 
Souru Arrica: shed precise locality, Thunb 
Coast Recion : Uitenh so 3 Kromme Rives “3000 ft. Drége. Queens 
CENTR on: Calvinia Div.3 ; between gy de Plaats and Springbol 
Kuil River, Zeyher, 1814! Worcester Div.; on the Karoo, at ‘ pene s Fontein” 
(probably Mutjies Fontein), Rehmann, 2910 ! Prince Ae t Div. ; Hitterwer 3 
near the Gamka River, 2500 ft., Drége; by the Gamka River, Mun aX Matr 
Graaff Reinet Div.; on the banks of dried-up streams in the Sneeuwberg Ranze, 
near Riviertje, 3700 ft., Bolus, 1981! Victoria West. Div.; ciaewe Veld, near 
River, 300 ft., Drége 
VESTERN Recion: Great Newlaguihina: Rehoboth, Fleck, 21a! Warmbad, 
Wandres, 28! Little Namaqualand, Vanrhynsdorp Div. ; Bushmans gt 
thon ‘reise eit Fontein and Plat Klip, 3000-3500 ft., Drege, 2040! 8 
on yher f 
18, A, proxima (Steud. Syn, Pl. Glum. i. 145); suffrutescon®s 
branched from the base; culms 3-1 ft. long, 1-2-noded, glauco 
