584 GRAMINEZ (Stapf). siti. 
1 of the 
s 
upper glume ; pale slig eal shorter ; stamens 3; anthers + lin. long; 
grain obovoid, truncate, obtusely duadrangulr, slightly compressed, 
1 lin. long; pericarp thin. urand z, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 
821. ee ioclados, Nees ex Trin. peer ee Steud. Syn. Pi. 
Glum. i 
Coast ci Uitenhage Div.; Springbok Flats, by the Zwartkops 
River, Ecklon 
ENTRAL REGION: Prince Albert Div.; Gamka Poort, Mund S Maire! 
Calvinia Div. ; Uien Vallei, 2000 ft., Drége. Richmond Div. ; Winter Veld, 
between Nie euwjaa rs Fontein ae mo naite.g 3000-4000 ft., Dre éege! Colesberg 
Diy. iggy aera 4500 ft. 
_ The Indian iS heer oe f. Fl, Brit. Ind. vii, 249) has the upper 
horter than the valve. 
8. cr (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 158) ; Ss ligne com- 
pactly hel: culms erect, rather slender, *—2 ft. long, glabrous, 
smooth, usually 2, rarely 1-noded ; lower sheaths very firm, per- 
sistent, 1-1} in. ‘long, “glabrous except the usually long- ciliate 
margins, som ekinies hairy all over, smooth, finely striate, upper tight, 
the uppermost up to ? ft. long; ligule a were (eae ciliolate rim ; 
blades linear, usually very narrow, tapering to an acute point, 
3-10 in. by 12 lin., involute, often pre ain hapa those of 
the barren shoots, rarely flat, firm, more or less glaucous, glabrous, 
except the often ‘serrulate-fimbriate lower margins, rarely scantily 
hairy, smooth below, subscaberulous above, margins rough oF 
tubercled ; age erect ovate or ovate-oblong, 1-4 in. by 3-2 in., 
erect or spreading. filiform , smooth, branched from the middle oF 
above it; branchlets contracted ; lateral pedicels very short ; spikelets 
rather crowded tow ards the tips of the branches, dark olive-grey ’ 
~~ 21 ae Sate ca hgtiape: the lower lanceolate- early gsr or 
side-nerves : ee ae. the valve; stamens a an 
long. Durand & Schinz, » one Fl. Afr. v. 819. VVitja nn fied 
Trin. Agrostid. 35; Steud. Syn. Pl. hues. i. 154. 
Var. 8, angustus (Nees, l.c. 159) ; nope setaceous ; panicle linear or spike- 
like ; branches very short, branched from 
Coa peoete ee Catheart Div. ; rae Windvogel Mountain and Zwart 
ar River, Drége 
pom Reciox > Alieal aes pie ce ie wae, Bergen, 4000-6000 ft-, 
ithe REGION : Orange Free State; on the Drakens Bergen, ne? 
Har — a 117! 
ERN : Tembuland ; Bazeia, Baur, 555 ! Griqualand East, — 
scan ren ar Kobstad, 5100 ft. , Tyson, 1473! Nat: tal; near Durban, Wil/iamson, °° 
