(217) SGHINZ. BEITR.EGE ZUR KEiNNTNIS DER AFRIKANISCHEN FLORA. 811 



lamina ad mucronem rediicta. Spicaî 6 — 10, alternœ, graciles, 2 — 3 cm 

 longa3, rhacheos glabrse, apex non (ut in affînibus) ultra spiculas pro- 

 tractus sed occultus. Spiculse imbricatse, oblonges, 3 mm longae; gluma 

 I"ia lineari-lanceolata, acuminata, dimidiam spiculam sequans, uninervis; 

 I^'^^ lanceolata, acutiuscula, uninervis, carina scabra. Gluma florifera ste- 

 rilem Il'Jam œquans, oblonga, acuta, arista patula dimidiam gluniam sub- 

 aiquante terminata, 3-nervis, pnbescens. Palea quam gluma paullo bre- 

 vior, obovato-oblonga. emarginata, nervis ciliolata. 



Benguela : Biballa, ad radicem montis Serra de Chella, Newton. 



Aflînis W. annua Hackel, quse differt rhachi in appendicem spiculas 

 superantem protracta, gluma 11'^» undique scabro-punctata, florens brevius 

 aristulata. 



