Tragus.| GRAMINES (Stapf). 577 
Culms ascending or decumbent, 3-5-noded, with the 
uppermost internodes cacti enclosed ; upper glume 
acute, with rows of hooked spines on the stout ribs, 
ey Np uiig the floret; anthers 8 —4 lin. 
Ee ... (2) racemosus, 
1, T. major (Stapf) ; ‘wrebeat culms erect or suberect from a 
short slender rhizome or r fr om short rooting runners, ge Cs ae densely 
tufted with short innovation-shoots, s slender, 1_]t Y ft. igh, glabrous, 
tapering to a very acute point, 1-3in. by 1-2 lin., flat, rigid, glaucous, 
closely striate; panicle 1-3 in. long, slender; axis pubescent or 
glabrous below ; ; branches close or lowest more or less distant, very short, 
ia -spiculate, continued beyond the uppermost spikelet; spikelets about 
2 lin. long ; lower glumes minute, delicately hyaline, oblong-lanceolate, 
acute or notehed, up to 8 ; jin. long; BAe midi glume lanceo- 
gabrow; pale. a to the valve, obtuse or 3-toothe ge ; 
lin 
long or Fileacae 50, . racem i igh fg in Engl. Jahrb. 
i. 397 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 733. T. occidentalis, 
Nee, Fl, Afr. Austr. 72 (in part), not AT aiie. pon 286. T. ber- 
lrvannay Dur Durand § Schinz, l.c. (in part), not T. berteronianus, Schult, 
eS 
t Region : Cape Div.; above Sea Point, Wolley Dod, 1088! Uitenbag' 
Div. £ Besentiphe Flats, Ecklon § Zeyher! Ba thurs Sikh ; Port Alfred, Hutton, 
9a! Qu ueenstown Div. ; Shiloh, 3500 ft., san 94 
CENTRAL REGION: Somerset Div ; ae ah Rive r, Baur! and bag 
r 
00 ft., Drége ! 
Katanart Ree@io : Griqualand West; Du‘oits Pan, Tuck! between Griqua 
Town Vilage Water, Burchell, 1977! foot of the Asbestos Mountains, between 
] 
j Griqua T 
1877! Bechuanaland; sandy plains near Kuruman, 4000 ft., Marloth, 1514! 
r. ecient, —— Agrost. Bras. 286, is only a small state of T. racemosus, 
All., and has escribed from Brazilian specimens. It occurs, however, alsu in 
hy Old db eae one at least of Ecklon’s specimens, enumerated by Nees in Fl. 
to 
ae 
from 
=e and prada ‘neanioek Went Div. | and aad tooth the ‘a River 
- T. racemosus (All. Fl. Pedem. ii. 241); annual or subperen- 
al); culms fascieled, ae gte or branched with the branches 
