Aristida. ] GRAMINE& (Stapf). 571 
slender, many-noded, minutely puberulous, gland-dotted, lower and 
middle internodes short, he upper gradually longer, exserted ; 
sheaths tight, gland- dotted, covered with evanescent wool near the 
mouth, margins and nodes, or more or less glabrate, those of the 
thick eylindric apie og broad with is ca blades ; blades of 
nerveless, 2 aA lodicules + lin. long; anthers 3 lin. long. 
Trin. § Rupr. Stip. ; Hack. in Bull. Herb — iv. App. iil 
i... mai ga bron Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 183 
CEn ReGion: Calvinia Div. ; near Kamos and rata Kuil, Zeyher, 
1813 Prince “Albert Div. ; rae bio the Dwyka River and Zwartbulletje, 
We ESTERN REGION: Great Namaqualand, in the southern part, Fleck, 290a. 
sage Nanagualond Silver Fontein, 2000-3000 ft., Drége/ in the Karroo, Lat. 
, 29°, D 
Imperfectly known species. 
6. A. hochstetteriana (Beck ex Hack. in Verh. Bot. Ver. 
tl Brandenb. xxx . 144) ; perennial ; ss pore convolate, 
glabrous, seabrid ; icle reduced to a spike-like raceme, 2-21 in. 
long ; spikelets oP a ile, 73-8 lin. peg ; glumes subequal, long 
acuminate, the lower shortly hirsute ; valve 3} lin. long, bearded 
(where 2), disarticulating at the waddle: awn stipitate, foot 42 lin 
long; middle bristle 3— me lin.long, the lower } on then plumose 
except at the tip; side-bristles very fine, glabrou 
WEstERN REGION: Little Namaqualand (?), ‘‘ ibe Wyley. 
Also in Hereroland. 
Evidently a marked species, but of doubtful affinity. 
XLVI. STIPA, ei 
ring or minately 2 ‘Isbed ; ealtad more or , usually 
D ungent ; mple, continuous with or jointed on pou valve, bent or 
geniculate, twisted below, plumose or naked above the knee. Pale 
