294 
Perennis. Culmi 2 ped. alti, erecti, glabri, 3-4-nodi, ad fere 
sin panicule vaginati. Folia a 6 prope basin congesta 
i ine g 
seabris. Panicula c ontracta, circiter 6 poll. longa, subnutans, 
flaccidula; rami iini vosiisilat ti, admodum inzequales, parce ramu- 
losi vel simplices, tenuiter filiformes, longiores ad 2 poll. longi, 
flexuosi, scabéruli vel hispiduli. Spicu le 4-4} lin. longe, laxe 
4-florz ; rhachilla eei articulis ad 1 lin. longis longe 
pilosis ; ipe vacue pertenues, lanceolate, acumin nate, i. 2-24, 
ii. 25-34 lin. longe; glume flotonbés exser rte, lineari-lanceolate 
(iii. 3-4 lin. longa), glabre, pallid, tenues, leves, tenuissime 
nervose, apice scariose, subbifide, 2-aristulate, vo 
barbato, arista supra — orta tenui 7 lin. lo onga ; palez 
lineares, 3 lin. longæ, carinis sees ciliolatis. Anthei ‘ead 1j 
lin. longe. Ovarium m hispidulum.— Trisetum long gifolium; 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Aust. p. 348 (partim 
CAPE COLONY. Alival North Div.: Wittebergen, on rocks, 
7500 ft., Drége. 
583. ose in ir dag — apf | [Graminesx - Avene 
e TT. barbate, Nees, distincta foliis culmorum quam 
vaginis multo "angustioribus, spieulis pe E i.et ii. 
Voc entia gluma iii. 3-nervi, iv. minute barbulat 
Culmi graciles, 3-4 ped. a u Taat Folia culmorum tantum 
nota, vaginis arctis glabris levibus quam internodiis multo 
brevioribus, laminis angustis 1-1 lin. longis qua. vaginis multo 
angustioribus. Spicularum umbelle numerose in paniculas 
erectas subcontractas disposite, ramis filiformibus e 
rd 
ii. o jede acuta, 3-4 lin. Td 3- nodum Dna 
pubescens, paleam obtusam li lin. longam gerens; iv. lineari- 
ner ay a callo ad arist» insertionem 1j lin. longa, bifida lobis in 
setas 3-4 lin. longas productis, albida, ad loborum basin barbula 
barbato pungente, arist: columna atra 4-5 lin. seta pallida 8-10 
lin. longa ; palea Sari oblonga obtusa 1} lin. lon Stamina in 
utroque flore 3, antheris 3-1 lin. longis. Ovarium glabrum. 
Caryopsis obovbideo-oblonga, 1 lin. longa, sulcata, embryone 
magno. 
WEST TROPICAL AFRICA. Senegambia, Heudelot, 141 ; Sierra 
p" Boon b by the Scarcies River, on dry rocks, Scott Elliot, 
584. cit glabra, Stapf dic eee eto i en repens 
adhuc descriptas 7. mericane, Kunth, simillim 
aed in setas stom productis atque ovario summo oa Sha villosis 
cta. p 
