568 GRAMINEE (Stapf). [ Aristida. 
compactly cespitose with numerous man shoots ; culms from a 
few inches to 1 ft. long, very slender, 1-noded, geniculate, glabrous, 
smooth, internodes exserted ; ba pcadis short, firm, persistent, 
glabrous or woolly near the margin, upper tight ; ligule a line of short 
hairs often passing into a long spreading beard at the mouth ; blades 
setaceous, convolute, 1-3 in. long, rigid, curved or flexuous, glaucous, 
glabrous, smooth beneath, minutely villous above; panicle very 
narrow, contracted, 1-6 in. long; Degnelns solitary or 2-nate, erect, 
branched from the base or simple for 1—1 in., filiform, scaberulous 
near the tips ; lateral pedicels short ; autccloia | 44a lin. long, pallid ; 
glumes equal or the lower slightly longer, the lower lanceolate, obtuse, 
-nerved, tip hyaline, the upper narrower, 1- to sub-3-nerved ; valve 
‘oblong- cylindric (broadly obovate when expanded), broadly emargi- 
nate, rs aoe smooth ; callus 3 i Jin. ee awn from the re 
anthers 2 lin. long grain subobovate, terete, almost 1 lin. nee 
whitish. Roem. 6: Schult. Mant. ii. 212; Trin. § Rupr. Stip. 167 ; , 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 805; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iil. 19. 
Stipagrostis (1) pes ‘Nees in Linnea, vii. 293 ; Kunth, Enum. Pl. 
1.198; Suppl. 154. 8S. capensis, Nees, l:c. 291; FL Ajr. power or 
Kunth, l.c.i, 197. Arthratherum obtusum, Nees, Gran. Afr. A 
179; Jaub. §& Spach, Ill. Pl. Or. iv. t. 338. 
Coast Rre1 veal reggie mer Div. ; Wind Hoek, 400 ft., Schlechter, 8343! 
CENTRAL REGION: Calvi Div.; ee Lospers Plaats and Springbok 
= River, Zouh 1815! i Peaneitines between Patrys Fontein an 
Great Bra . iver, Bhiree't 1520! between pen Riet River and Stink ae 
Burehely 1392! ae rvon Div.; at the northern exit of Karee Bergen Poort, 
arnarvon, Burchell, 1556! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuw Veld, Ecklon, 
po see Poort, oops 500 ft., Drége! 
ERN ReGIon: Great Namaqualand ; Aus, Schinz, 659! Little Namaqua- 
land, in id, between ae River and the Orange River, 1000-1500 ft., Drege 
254 421 _ mies Ber 
eon ualand West, Hay Diy. ; at Griqua Town, Bure hell, 
2961 ! ‘Binbesiy ‘Diamond fields, Tuck | , Orange Res Bute at Olifants Ponte, 
ehi 
Also in wees and in the deserts of North Africa and Arabia, 
or A. subacaulis as tend. — ed. ii. i. ee he — iS 
aren 0 ne pee 41-52 lin. long, whitish ; glomes 
linear-oblong or linear-lancedlate, Tong acuminate, 3-nerved, mem 
