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qualos : I ma spicula subduplo brevior, chartacea, lancoolata, hyalino- 

 acuminata, 3-nervis, ad nervös laterales implicata, lsevis; H ,,a spieulam 

 a'(|uans. linearis, membranacea, breviter acuminata, 3-nervia, nervo 

 medio scaberula; gluma III a spieulam œquans, longo subulato-acumi- 

 nata, membranacea, glabra, 5-ncrvis, paleam fovens ei similora bicari- 

 natam tioromque cT triandrum: gluma IV a insidens stipiti glabro, sed 

 basi in callum conicum pungentein albo-barbatum in stipitem decur- 

 rentem constrieta, lancoolata, mombranacoa, a basi ad aristae insertio- 

 nom usquc albo-pubosccns, dein in laciuias 2 subulatas glabras longe 

 aristatas tissa (aristis roctis capillaribus scabris 1,5-1,8 cm. longis), 

 inter lacinias aristam oxsorons 7-8 cm. longam glabram scabram, 

 columna quam subula duplo fere breviore. Palea ad aristo insortionom 

 usque portinons, linearis, obtusa, bicarinata. Stamina nulla. Ovarium 

 lineari-oblongum, apice pilis longis donso coronatum; Stigmata subses- 

 silia, plumosa, ad spiculas medium emergentia. 



Transvaal : Makapansborge, Streydpoort (Rehin. 5884). 



Affinis Tr. leiostachyœ Nées (brasiliensi), quœ differt eulmo lœvi, 

 foliis glabris convolutis, spiculis 4-5 cm. longis, glumœ IV œ laciniis non 

 aristatis. Tr. leueothrix Trin. differt spiculis albo-hirsutis, etc., Tr. so- 

 malensis Franch. spiculis parvis, glumis sterilibus obtusis, basi pubes- 

 centibus apice ciliatis. 



Danthonia Bachmanni (Sect. Himantoch^te) HACK. 



Perennis, esespitosa. Culmi graciles, 20-30 cm. alti, teretes glaber- 

 rimi, apice breviter nudi, simplices. Vaginae teretes, aretae, internodiis 

 breviores, ore longe patentim barbatae, parce patuleque hirsutae (pilis 

 basi tuberculatis), nodis glabrae. Ligula minuta, ciliaris. Laminas linea- 

 res, tenui-acuininatae, 8-12 cm. longae, circ. 2 mm. lt., planae, ereetae, 

 fiaeeidulae, glauco-virides, utrinque plus minus pilis basi tuberculatis 

 adspersae, nervis tenuibus confertis parum prominulis. Panicula oblonga, 

 3-4 cm. lg., densa, coaretata, subspiciforinis, rhachi ramulisque glabris 

 scabris, bis binis, altoro a basi, altero superius ramuloso, ramulis glo- 

 merato-spiculiferis. Spiculae (subterminales) subsessiles, lanceolatae, viri- 

 dulae ot basi levitor violaceo-suffusae, 3-4 florae, 5-6 mm. longae, rha- 

 chi lia glabra. Gluinae steriles nieinbranaceae, aequales, floriferas eunetas 

 superantes, late lanceolatae, acuininatae, 3-norves, carinascabrae ceterum 

 glaberrimae. Gluinae florentes obovatae, membranaceae, 2-5 mm. long», 

 ad medium usque bipartitae, laciniis lato-lancoolatis mucronato-acumi- 



