652 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Triraphis. 
in Flora, 1829, 486; Kunth, oe i. 307. Trisetum andropogo- 
notdes, Steud. ‘Syn. Pl. Glum. . 228; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
Fl. Afr. v. 837. 
“ge AFRICA: without precise ee ko laa 1829! 
tT Rea@ton: Uitenhage Div. ; es in the eign of the Zwart- 
kops River Ecklon § Zeyher, 947! Rome l Lite and Melk River, Burchell, 
4786! Alexandria Div. ; in shru eries, in Olivenhout Kloof near Enon, 
500-1 ! 
e! 
KataHAri Reaion: Bechuanaland ; between Kuruman and Matlareen — 
Winbor” ge Orange Free State ; Draai Fontein, Rehmann, 3622! nea 
in hanan, 245 ! mage Kimberley and Bloemfontein, Buchenah 
278 bis? Ce kia River, Burke, 426! Transvaal; Zoutpansberg D.strict, at 
eo Poort, Nelson, 35* 
Bur A ragga has rather larger spikelets on short stiff branches ; otherwise 
it is Hi pA spr 
3. T. Elliotii (Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1891, 73); annual (?) ; 
oe fascicled, erect, 8-11 ft. long, simple, smooth, glabrous, 
ae noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths aig smooth, glabrous ; 
1-2 in. by 3—+ lin., purplish; lowest branches up to % in. long ; 
lateral pedicels. very short; spikelets 4, hier 5 lin. long ; florets up 
to 11; rhachilla glabrous, joints up to + lin. long; glumes lanceolate 
in profile, lower acute, submucronate, 1 lin, long, upper emarginate 
with a short bristle from the sinus, up to 14 lin. long; valves 
oblong, over 14 lin. long, purple, hyaline Sig minute Nae distinct) 
at se of the middle awn ; mid awn 2-21 lin g 
side-awns 1-13 lin. long; pales 12 lin. ee, keels ‘scaberulous ; 
pp. iil. 
anthers 1 lin. long. Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. A 
24. 
Wanna Rea@ion: Little Namaqualand, Ookiep, Scully / 
Also in Damaraland. 
4. T. Fleckii (Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 23, 24) ; 
annual; culms fascicled, vd ft. high, geniculate, sometimes from a 
decumbent base, or sube rect, terete, striate, with scattered long 
—_— hairs, about 2-noded, upper internodes at length more or 
less exserted ; sheaths rather tight, terete, striate, with long 
igneiig tuberele-based hairs ; ligule a ciliate rim; blades linear, 
tapering to a fine setaceous point, 2-5 in. by 3-1 lin., flat, sub- 
flaccid, sparsely hairy ow, otherwise glabrous, seaberulos ; 
panicle linear-oblong, contracted or more or less 0 ax aD 
subsecund, 4-6 in. long; rhachis scabrid ; bein ’ distinetly 
2-nate or solitary, erect or spreading, filiform, straight or flexuous, 
scabrid, sparingly divided or ee bearing spikelets from the base 
or the upper from somewhat above it or towards the tips only ; 
lateral pedicels }—1 lin. long ; spikelets linear-oblong, more or less 
purple, 4-7 lin. long; florets 9-16; rhachilla glabrous; glumes 
