Aristida. | GRAMINE® (Stapf), 567 
woolly below the nodes, otherwise pubescent, internodes shortly 
exserted ; sheaths tight, pubescent, nodes densely tomentose or 
vee the middle, 2 in. long, 2-4-spiculate, woolly pubescent ; 
pedicels 11-3 lin. long, tips ea nevides cua’ spikelets 4—42 lin. 
long, pallid ; glumes lanceolate, minutely truncate or obscurely 2. 
toothed, glabrous, 3-nerved, the lower over 3 ‘lin. long ; valve oblong, 
13-2 lin. long, disarticulating just above the middle ; callus 1 -lin. 
long ; awn deciduous with the ao half of the valve, bristles sub- 
beng plumose all along, long ; pale broader than long, 
lin. lon ng, truncate, nerveless ; Leticia very obtuse, 4 lin long; 
anthers almost 2 lin. long. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. “Afr. v . 807. 
‘ Cenrrat Receron: Aliwal North; between Kraai River and Witte Bergen, 
Leyher ! 
9. A. lutescens (Trin. & Rupr. Stip. 17 3) 5 ; rhizome creeping, 
Covered like the innovation-buds and the culm bases with strong 
whitish scale-like sheaths, the lowest scales oh the upper glabrous 
With muero-like blades; culms fascicled, erect, slender, 1-2 ft. long, 
truncate or Beat glabrous, 3-nerved, the lower 5-5} lin. long, 
the upper 6-7 lin. ; valve subcylindrie, smooth, purplish-grey, 8 lin. 
long, produced into and articulated with a slightly twisted beak, 
eapri above the middle ; callus 1 lin. oe middle bristle about 
lin. long, plumose all along; side-bristles somewhat shorter, eiig 
tlabrous Eeiow, scantily and epee s ciliate above; pale $ lin. 
long ; es les 3 lin. long; anthers 2-21 lin. long. Steud. Syn. be 
Glum. i. 145; Durand ia Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 804; Hack. 
Bull. Herb, Boiss. iv. App. ili. 18. Arthratherum lutescens, ia 
Fi. ink Austr. i, 179. 
vad TERN Rrciom Little Namaqualand ; hills near the mouth of the Orange 
sith below 600 ft., Drége, 727! 
Also in Rewiesiand. 
Very near A. m rensis from which it differs seer sah mi es 
» the very loose and o n panicle nd. the am 
Marlothii, Hack. in Engl. tek a - 400, i a variety, wit ith bearded el nodes ni 
Panicles occurring at Walfish 1 Bay, 
20. A. obtusa (Del. FI. Egypte, i. 175, t. 13. fig. 2); perennial, 
