692 ~— Grastven (Stapf). [ Pingerhuthia, 
River and Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1788! Hay hg a Gri Ne Town, 
Burchell, 1876! 1961/2! plains between Griqua Tow Witte Water, 
Bur sy u, 19 yt hla ge Witte Water and Riet Fontein, gt 2009 ! and 
plain the f ees Joe Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2086! Basutoland ; 
Lain. Due ig 
Also in tropical cece and on the Afghan-Indian frontier. 
2. F. seslerieformis (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 138); culms very 
densely tufted on a short oblique rhizome, glabrous, rather robust, 
= ft. long, erect, smooth, 2-noded, internodes long exserted ; 
Riles tapering to a subsetaceous point, 4~8 in. long, 14-24 lin. wide 
when expanded, convolute, rarely flat, rigid, glaucous, smooth below, 
finely scaberulous above, margins rough ; ‘panicle ellipsoid to cylindric, 
4-21 in. by 5-6 lin., ‘sometimes purplish ; spikelets 2—4- flowered, 
23-3 lin. long; glumes lanceolate in profile, mucronate-acuminate, 
{-2 lin. long, rigidly ciliolate along the keel; valves oblong- 
lanceolate in profile, mueronate-acuminate or the upper emucronate, 
about 2 lin. long, rather firm exeept at the narrow hyaline margins, 
glabrous or scantily and minutely hairy below towards the margins, 
5—3-nerved, side-nerves rather close, more or less prominent (or the 
inner evanescent below the middle or quite suppressed) joining the 
middle nerve below the tip; lodicules obliquely eo 1 lin. long 
anthers 11 lin. long; styles 4 lin. long; stigmas +} “lin. long. 
Durand & ‘Schine, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 873. 
Soura AFRIcA: jae aia? locality, Zeyher, 1785! 
Coast Reaion: Alban .; Glenfillin B by a brook, below 1000 ft., Drege! 
in swampy ag nea ni ra acy 2300 , MacOwan 19! Queenstown 
Div.; Zwart bio Flats, 4000 ft., Drége! ans near ci acecatantt, 350) 
Galpin, 2351 
RAL Radon; Beaufort West Div.; Nieuw Veld, near Bok Poort, 
» Drége. Richmond Div.; Winter Veld, between Nieuwjaars 
Fontein and Bzels ‘Fontein 3000—4000 ft., Drége. Coles berg Div.; Wonder- 
huivel, 4 , Dréy 
ALAHARLI ab de Orange Free State, Hutton! Seven Fontein, Burke, 
206! Winberg, Buchanan, 255 ! Transvaal ; Hooge Veld, between Trigards 
Fontein and Standerton, Lamitpg 6751! 
ar Region ; Natal; Weenen County, South Downs, 4000 ft., Wood, 
LXXVII. SCHISMUS, Beauv. 
pe tape laterally compressed, panicled ; rhachilla disarticulating 
above the glumes and between the valves, slender, glabrous, Flor ets 
ot, 2. the uppermost reduced. Glumes much longer ‘than the 
single valves, acute, herbaceous on the pack with white subhyaline 
margins, subequal, the lower broader, 5-7-nerved, the upper 
aa ide Valves obliquely obovate ‘to meen ia in ee 
2-lobed or 2-fid, with or without a mucro or a minute awn from t 
sinus, thin, hairy below, rounded on the back, nerves 7-9, pss 
the lateral evanescent and obscure ely anastomosing below tie 
hyaline tips; callus small. Pales spathulate, 2-kceled pw the 
broad top, longer or shorter than the valves, Lodicu’es 2, cune 
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