570 GRAMINEEX (Stapf). [ Aristida. 
blades et convolute, subacute, }—2 in. long, rigid, glabrous 
and smooth below, pubesce ent above; panicle erect or nodding, 
siliae shee more or less secund, 9-3 in. Jong ; rhachis smooth; 
branches 2. -nate, 1-2- separ: the lowest 3-3 in. long, erect or sub- 
erect, filiform, smooth; spikelets 6 lin. long, a or purple; 
glumes linear-lanceolate, dances glabro 3-nerved, the 
lower very slightly shorter, acute, the upper sede mucronate ; 
valve oblong-eylindric, minut ely and obtusely bilobed, glabrous, 
1: lin. long; callus 8 lin. long; awn from the sinus of the valve, 
tardily disarticulating, stipitate, “foot slightly twisted, slender like 
the middle bristle, purple, smooth, plumose above the middle, to 11 in. 
long, side-bristles much finer, up to 8 lin. ies glabrous, smooth ; 
pale very broad, % lin. long; lodicules ae ‘lin. long; anthers 
14 lin. long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 144; : Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 803 ; nee ‘ay Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 18. 
Stipagrostis dregeana, ‘Nees, F 1. Afr. Austr. 172. 
WESTERN Reaion: Great Nam ualand; Aus, Schinz, 659; sandy plains 
between Ausis and Kuias, Schenck, "219 i ttle Namaqualand ; near the mouth 
of the Orange River, below 600 ft., 
Also in Hereroland. 
24. A. geminifolia (Trin. & Rupr. Stip. a perennial, este 
from the base, almost suffrutescent, 4 ft. long or less; culms OF 
pendulous, slender, glabrous or hairy below ‘hie panicle, Siler pee 
noded, internodes very ie aes the lowest short, sheathed, the 
followin ey xserted (2-4 in.), the next very short, usually 
glabrous or bearded; blades subulate, involute, subpungent, 
1-6 lin. long, rigid, more or less eae rarely up to 1; 10. 
long and subflexuons, smoo glabrous below, pubescent 
srt Se pe Fl ap ustr. 173, 
ERN ReGion: Little Namaqualand; near;the mouth ah the a River, 
Dre slag awe Kook Fontein and Holgat River, 1000-2000 ft., Dreg 
- 25. A. brevifolia (Steud. Nomencl. ed. ii. i. rt suffrutescent, 
4-1} ft. long, branched, woody below; culms erect or asce ending, 
