382 NEW GRASSES FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 
tincta ; foliis tenuibus convolutis rigidulis curvulis; pannicula ovata 
glanduloso-punctata, ramis sepius oppositis, interdum solitariis, 
iterum trichotome ramulosis et effusis, pedicellig spicula sepius 
excedentibus ; glumis sterilibus basi purpureis superne brunneo- 
flavescentibus glabris ellipticis acutis, carinis glanduloso-punctatis, 
~ : : ; herrea 
feris, arista quam gluma triplo longiore, palea lineare glumam 
equante apice bidenticulata. 
to 5°5 em. broad, lower branches 8 cm., upper gradually shorter, 
branchlets and pedicels capillary, nodes with a white tuft of hairs. 
Spikelets 5-5 to 6 mm. long, lower barren glume the length of the 
spikelet, the upper slightly shorter and narrowing more abruptly at 
the apex (5 to 5-5 mm. long); fertile gls. 2°5 mm., lateral sete 
about 1:5 mm., awn to 8 mm. long, chestnut-brown, kneed at the 
middle, callus short tufted-hairy ; pale narrowing upwards, strongly 
m 
culis subsessilibus paucifloris, compressis ; glumis sterilibus equa- 
libus lateraliter et inequaliter plicatis, albidis cum nervis 4 viridibus, 
apice longe acuminato in setam purpuream fiexuosam desinente, 
bea 
short lanceolate blade of about the same length. The whole inter- 
node with spathe and spike becomes ultimately disjointed. Ligule 
"5 mm. long, leaf-blades 4 em. or less by about 2 mm. greatest 
breadth. Spike 1-5 em. long by 1 cm. broad; spikelets greenish, 
reaching 6 mm. not including awns, with generally three ¥ flowers. 
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the edge of the outer broader side scabrid and ciliate, elsewhere 
