72 NOVITATES CAPENSES. 
. Hab. Transvaal; near Lake nnd Scott Ellict 1597! Near 
A, tenuifolia Baker in Saund. Ref. Bot. t. 835. 
Ornithogalum ( ( Carver) speciosum Baker —Bulb no 
seen. Leaves 4, linear from a broad ahenthine base, “thie, ation 
Scape terete, 4-1 ft. long. Flowers 3-5 in a raceme with a flexuose 
‘rachis ; lower pedicels arcuate, 4 in. long, its bract ovate-amplexi- 
caul, acute, an inch long. Perianth campanulate, whitish, an inch 
long; segments oe obtuse, much imbricated, 4 in. broad, the 
Grids outer tipped with a ae purplish-black spot. Stamens less 
than half the length of the anth ; filaments lanceolate. 
Hab. Namaqua-land, Scully 175! Habit of O. thyrsoides and 
arabicum, Wi th as ss a flower, with the outer segments tipped 
me - —. black spot. 
achne aristulata Hackel & Rendle, n. sp.— Rhizome 
atin strong flexuous wiry roots. Culms elustered at the base, 
2 ft. high, simple, erect, terete, smooth, with 8 nodes. Leaves: 
sheath from less than half to two Pe ds as long as ‘the corre- 
sponding prveaenrs striated, gl abro ioe ‘owes — dg : 
sso consisting almost com trace of ra prominent midrib; 
rounded on the back “en ewraett ed Inflorescence 2-4 in. 
angular, wi 
. Spikes 
few and distant, lower ones compound, 2 in. long and as broad, 
upper ones smaller and simple, consisting of a "ingle spikelet. 
Rachis plano-convex, the flattened side pressed against the axis. 
Spikelets secund on the convex side of the rachis, one terminal, 
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about road; lower ones small. Ghneses distichous, the two 
lowest much smaller than the rest, the four lower ones empty, the rest 
containing flowers, all smooth, peters but ciliate at the ie 
chartaceous, ovate, carinate, with the midrib prolonged into 
rigid awn, maa several (4 in the lange glumes) F prondineid 
nerves running parallel to the margin from base to apex. Pale 
included in and equal in length to the glume, colourless, very 
and membranous, with long silky : hale at its base. Seed 
oblong to lenticular in shape, flattened, concavo-convex, 1 line long 
by es line broad. Testa yellowish- white, loose, chaffy. 
Differs markedly from T. Dregei Nees, which has hitherto been 
the only known species of Tetrachne, in the much larger and fewer 
spikelets, and the much larger and stronger many-nerved glumes, 
ciliated at the base, and sienduiagl into an tga ~ pungent awn. 
Eragrostis ta, dle, n. oot us, wiry. 
Culms cexspitose, 3-7 in. high, slightly brihdliiae; glabrous, longi- 
tudinally striate, geniculate at the nodes. Leaves: sheath, lower 
ones carinate and — ribbed, scabrous, with long colourless 
silky ha'rs springing singly or in tufts from little tubercles, 
especially at the mouth of the sheath, upper ones similar, but 
