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_ Triraphis. ] GRAMINEE (Stapf). 651 
Culms with scattered long spreading 
hairs ; Be nicle rather lax, often 
flexuous; glumes smooth (4) Fleckii. 
Culms ‘ee scheme ‘or some- 
pears scantily hairy; panicle dense, ‘ 
raight; glumes scaberulous ... (5) purpurea. 
Valves $ lin, ia apthers 3-4, lin. long; a 
dwarf grass eee se ... (6) nana, 
1. T. ramosissima (Hack. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb, 
- xxx. (1888) 237); perennial, coeds ; culms wiry, pa many- 
noded, profusely branched, part icularly from the le nodes, 
__ terete, smooth, branches solitary or in fascicles of 2-3, with the lower 
= nodes’ very short and sheathed by subpersistent bud- bearing scales, 
internodes exserted ; sheaths tight, terete, at length open and breaking 
_ away at the base or ‘withering ; ades very nar om linear, setaceously 
_ convolute, tapering to a ve ery fine point, 2-4 in. by 2 lin., sea- 
_ berulous above, smooth below ; panicle (isastoblony 2-22 in. long, 
_ Subcontracted ; branches subeapillary, flexuous, 3-5-nati te, 5-1-spiculate, 
up to > in long ; lateral pedieels up ; spikelets 5-7- 
red, 31-4 lin. long, light purplish; rhachilla glabrous ; glum 
lanceolate hyaline, mucronate, the low i he upper 
up to 1} lin. long, with bifid tips; valves up to 1} lin. long ; middle 
awn up to 22 lin, long, side-awns ey as bine or longer; ‘keels of 
the pale seaberulous anthers 1 Jin, long. Hack. in Bull. Herb. 
eh iv. App. 23, 24; aera & “Schine, Cae Fil. Afe. 
72. 
oe Region: Great Namaqualand; between Ausis aud Kuias, Schenck, 
2. T. Rehmanni (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 388) ; persone 
riety cxspitose, a rhizome short, oblique ; culms erect 
setaceous point, eal tightly pt 4-8 in, y ie y_ lin. 
firm, smooth, co re striate; panicle 2-12 in. 
long, contracted or open, and then 2-4 in. broad, erect or slightly 
or flexuous; pedicels 2-12 lin. long; spikelets subseeund, crowded, 
4-8-flowered, 3-5 lin. long; rhachilla glabrous ; glumes a 
erose, minutely mucronate, the lower 1-2 lin., the upper 2 lin. 
w ne lat 
oblong (when expanded), not quite 2 lin. long; awns stiff, middle 
awn 23-12 lin. long, side-awns up to 1 lin. long, or mere SACEIOS 5 
pale glabrous or the flaps hairy, keels sos beralous : anthers 2 lin. 
long ;_ grain ae terete, Z lin. by 2 lin Dipla chne andropo- 
gonoides, Nees, Fi. Afr. Austr. 258. Aiea ‘andropogonoides, Steud. 
