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Triraphis. } GRAMINEZE (Stapf). 653 
linear-oblong, mucronate from the more or less 2-toothed tips, 
I-nerved, glabrous, smooth, lower slightly over 1 lin., u per 12 lin. 
long; valves linear-oblong, 1} lin. long, middle lobe split to 
3a Way down, side-nerves ciliate all along; middle awn about as 
long as the valve, side-awns half as long; pales slightly shorter 
than the valves, keels scabrid ; anthers almost 1 lin. lo 
Westexn Recron: Great Namaqualand; Rehoboth, Fleck / 
Tesi reg Region: Griqualand West, Herbert Div. ; St. Clair, Douglas, 
Also in Angola. 
5. T. purpurea (Hack. in Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Bradenb. xxx. 
(1888) 146); annual; culms faseicled, geniculately-ascending, 
3-6 in, long, terete or compressed, glabrous or sparse airy, 
bercle . 
mbranous ciliolate rim; blades linear, tapering to a very fine 
point, 1;-2 in. by 3-3 lin., glabrous or sparsely hairy below, 
scabrous ; panicle linear to ovate-oblong, 11-21 in. long, dense, 
sometimes spike-like ; rhachis straight, angular, scabrid; branches in 
alternately approximate and distant pairs or the upper solitary, 
2-{ In. long, erect or obliquely erect, filiform, scabrid, bearing 
silky-bearded ; pales almost equalling the valve, keels scabrid ; 
anthers § lin. long. rand §& Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 872; 
4, 
Hack, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 23, 2 
: Great Namaqualand; Gubub, to the south of Aus 
WeEsTERN GION: 
hen / sandy plains near Gobachab, between Aus aud the Orange River, Schenck, 
z lin. 
ong ; valves oblong, 3 lin. long; middle awn as long as the valve, 
