760 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 
nodes except close to the base ; basal reer ferruginous-brown, 
almost viscid ; leaves 1 ft. long, fi filiform ; panicle 1-2 in. long with 
12-44 ise lowest bract overtopping the ialeconian at base 
ferruginous-brown and sheathing the stem ; spikelets subsolitary, with 
5-8 glumes. 
RAL Recion: Ceres Div.; Cold Bokkeveld, at Elands Fontein, 5000 ft., 
Schlechter, 10,018! 
The spikelets, very young, are similar to those of T. Burmanni, C. B. Clarke. 
3. Chrysithrix Dodii (C. B. Clarke) ; rhizome horizontal, 3,-7', in. 
in diam., clothed by lanceolate dirty-straw-coloured scales; stems 
12-20 in. long, terete to the Bek finely omen slender throughout, 
0-16 in. in diam. at the ; leaves = the length os the stem, 
siz im. in diam., terete, desl striate ; head 4 1 by 314 
Coast Recion: Cape Peninsula; lower plateau above Skeleton gti 
Woitey, Dod, 3550! Silvermine Me Wolley Dod, 3549! George Div 
Cradock Berg, 5000 ft., Galpin, 4840 
This rb closely, but is much slenderer in every part than C. capensts, 
Linn., var. eres, C. B. Clarke, which Mr. Galpin got at the same time 
and place. 
XXVIIa. POAGROSTIS, Stapf. 
Spikelets very small, laterally compressed, pedicelled, panicled ; 
rhachilla sen ena, above the glumes, obscurely produced beyond 
the base of the floret. Floret “1, 3, slightly shorter than the 
umes. Glumes asierge equal, lanceolate i in profile, acute, mem- 
branous, eae 3-nerved at the very base, middle nerve percurrent 
or almost Valve entire: muticous, delicately membranous, finely 
silky villows, faintly 7-n erved ; callus obscure, glabrous. Pale 
faintly 2-nerved below the middle, subequal to the valve. Lodi- 
cules 2, small, cuneate, glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary oblong, 
glabrous ; styles distinct, short ; stigmas stile laterally | exserted. 
Grain oblong, dorsally slightly le aes rg in transverse 
section ; pericarp subcrustaceous ; 
the grain ; hilum o 
A very delicate, kreg Bo tufted, much branched dwarf agains Re blades flat, 
payed: Mas. rpc a fringe of 3 panicle very scanty and lax, sometimes reduc ed 
1 spikelets, 
ate 1, on Table Mountain. 
The affinity of Poagrostis seems to lie — ssa, of which it nage 
said to represent a much reduced modificat The 2 essential a whi 
it differs from this genus are the solitary fined and the crustaceous 
