382 BULLETIN DE L'HERBIER B0ISSIER. (86) 



spiciformis, lineari-oblonga, densa, 5-8 cm. Ig., raniis inferioribus 

 2 nis -3 nis . primario 2-5-spiculato, reliquis 1-spiculatis, omnibus rhachique 

 sericeo-hirtulis. Spiculae breviter pedicellatas (pedicello spicula 3-5-plo 

 breviore), arrectae, lineares, livide purpurascentes, albo-villosulse : 

 gluinae steriles subœquales (10 : 12 mm. longae), lineari-lanceolatae, 

 tenui-ineinbranaceœ, hyalino-acuminatae, 3-nerves, villosulae ; gluma flo- 

 rifera 6 mm. longa, linearis, violascens, callo brevi-barbato, ceterum 

 glabra, laeviuscula, stipite aristae 2 mm. longosericeo non torto neque 

 articulato, divisionibus a basi ad apicem usque (excepto mucronulo 

 nudo) sericeo-plumosis erecto-patentibus, media circ. 15 mm., latera- 

 libus 10 mm. longis. 



Transvaal : Hogge Yeld pr. Barberton (Rehm. 6793), Pretoria pr. 

 Aapies Poort (Rebm. 4046). 



Species peculiaris, nulli arctius afrlnis, indumento sericeo culmi vagi- 

 narum, glumarumque etc. insignis. 



Brachyelytrum africanum HACK. 



Totum glabrum. Culmi ascendentes, circ. 70 cm. alti, undique foliati, 

 compressi, glaberrimi, simplices. Vaginse subcompressse, laxse, lseves. 

 Ligula ovato-oblonga 4-5 mm. lg., obtusa, membranacea, denticulata. 

 Laininse e basi angustata lineari-lanceolatae, acuminatse, 20-30 cm. lg., 

 1,5 cm. lt., planaa, flaccidae, virides, utrinque scaberulœ, margine sca- 

 brae, tenuinerves. Panicula dimidium culmum occupans, ovata, laxis- 

 sima, patens, rbacbi angulosa ls^vi, ramis semiverticillato-ternatis, pri- 

 mario ad V 8 v - V 2 usque nudo dein ramuloso, ramulis inferioribus 

 iterum divisis plurispiculatis, omnibus filiformibus scabris superne sub- 

 fiexuosis. Spiculse subterminales pedicello ipsis plus duplo breviori 

 fultae, lanceolatse, teretiusculae, 8 mm. longse, virides, glabrse, rhachilla 

 supra fiorem producta in stipitem tenuem glabrum scabrum dimidium 

 fiorem aaquantem apice glumulam obsoletam aristatam (arista stipitis 

 longitudine) ferentem. Glumse steriles subsequales (inferior paulisper 

 brevior) spiculae 2 / 3 sequantes, lanceolatse, acuminatae, inferior 1-supc- 

 rior 3-nervis, nervo medio scaberulo, berbaceo-mcmbranaccse., margine 

 hyalinœ. Gluma flordfera late lanceolata, callo obtuso glabro, apice 

 acuta abiens in aristam tenuem rectam scabram circ. 1,5 cm. longam, 

 herbaceo-membranacea, margine hyalino, trinervis, dorso rotundata, 

 im tvo medio costulam facicnte scabro, ceterum kevis. Palea glumam 

 ttoriferam ajquans, lanceolata, bidcntula, bicarinata, carinis superne 



