NEW GRASSES FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 881 
soidea vel ovata, rachi cum ramis ramulis et petals apebridalis: : 
radiis verticillatis plus minus patentibus in parte inferiore nudis 
pedicellis quam spicule +i ape brevioribus ; glumis aterilibus ovatis 
acutis cum carina scabridula ¢ Aggies slabra; gl. fertili dense albo- 
pilosa, cum arista dora duplo long 
Th owering culms a eo 1 m. in length, and 
contain generally four elongated internodes increasing rapidly in 
faa upwards; the few lowest shortened internodes are clothed 
with the short sheaths of leaves, the flat linear suberect blades of 
which form a tufted growth 10 to 12 cm. high; saline leaves 
erect, rigidulous, more or less convolute with subpungent apex, 
4-5 to 10 cm. long, and 2 mm. broad at the base; liga brittle, 
scarious, 4 to 5mm. long. Panicle 10 to 12cm . long, 7 cm. or less 
in breadth ; Branehse filiform, two to five at each note ae longest 
reaching 7 ¢ spikelets a little over 3 mm. long, becoming brown 
with a Ae tinge ; outer barren glume the length of. the spikelet, 
mucronulate, the inner acute slightly shorter and narrower ; fertile 
e on back, a m 
long, kneed below the middle, callus shortly hairy; pale flat 
a ovate-lanceolate, 2 mm. long; rhachis end slender, pilose, 
r A. lachnantha pees but distinguished by its larger con- 
spicuonsly awned spikelet 
No. 10274. 
A. aristulifera Rendle, sp. nov. Planta minor annua cxspitosa 
glabra scaberula, culmis tenuibus erectis basi ascendentibus seepis- 
sime simplicibus; foliis brevibus linearibus acutis, ligula scariosa 
paascuel pannicula ut in A. lachnantha sed breviore, aig Vix 
dorsali minuta, callo breviter barbato, ‘aie elliptica subacuta. 
Plants 18 to 30 ft. high; leaves on small basal yes shoots 
short, slender, flaccid, 4 cm. or less in length by 1 mm. or less in 
bre adth, ¢ auline leaves 5 cm. or less by 2 mm. or Pi “p sch 
lan ea more or less flex 
than 1 to 2cm zs Doom cakes finely gaa ig sionagtar ag rau 
low 
at the nodes, 3 cm. or less in length, gen 
f mec meray boned with iat ; alee Prats gia 
2°3 mm. or less tly shorter (2 mm.); fertile gl. 1-5 mm 
eak imperfect awn less than ‘5 to 1 mm. long; the four 
Has the habit sf a small form of 4. lachnantha "Nees, but is 
distinguished by the short glabrous flowering glume, which is 
barely three- ge Pa the length of the barren glumes. 
No. 9596. 
Pentaschistis patuliflora Rendle, sp. nov. Annua cespitosa 
Vvaginarum oribus nodisque pannicule exceptis glabra purpureo- 
