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A very distinct novelty, with flowers like those of the finest forms of 
G. virescens, Lindl., but style not deflexed at the base, stem short and 
erect, and leaves not cirrhose at the ti ip. It would make a handsome 
garden plant, 
179. Tristachya decora, Stapf [Graminem]; panicula ovata vel 
oblonga, interdum secunda, ramis gracilibus ad medium vel ultra erectis 
deinde abrupte patulis vel deflexis et supra curvaturam setis albis 
inzquilongis e tuberculis atris ortis dense barbatis, spieularum capitulis 
sub anthesi ovatis, gluma I. lanceolata caudato-acuminata. secundum 
nervos setis vel setarum fasciculis e tuberculis atris ortis albis patulis vel 
deflexis ornata, gluma, II. ovato-lanceolata longe acuminata glabra, 
gluma III. pr ecedenti simili setis utrinque 2 vel 3 brevibus exceptis 
glabra, ejus palea anguste oblonga applanafa, gluma IV. oblongo-ovata 
basi utrinque fasciculo pilorum et ad medium serie obliqua fasciculorum 
ornata, ejus palea lanceolata acuta carinis cristatis inferne conniventibus 
canaliculum includentibus 
Habitat. —V wambo, dii A. Carson, 36. 
icula; 4-6 poll. longa, 2-3 poll. lata.’ Capitula (aristis éxbiplis) 
9 lin. a 3-4 lin. lata. Gluma I. 9 lin. longa, sete 3—4 lin. longs; 
gluma I. et II. 6-7 lin., IV. 4-lin. longa; arista ad genu 4 lin., tota 
10 lin. longa. 
8 d is nearest allied to T. Jeucothriz, Trin., a species known 
from Natal and the eastern part of the Cape Colony. It differs from it 
mainly in the smaller pad broader heads of spikelets, the very Jong, and 
stiff bristles of glume 1, the glabrous or almost glabrous glumes 2 and 
3, the peculiar arra angement of the hairs of glume 4, and the shorter 
awns, Glume 1 is rather firm and light brown Él whilst the tubercles 
from which the white bristles spri ofa í secon 
and bird days x Jiollowisb. brown, with gree anà prominent nerves, 
ie r, and th E Li ANEA less marked. There 
are no le: wit th tlie. specimens except one sheath. It is glabrous, and 
beard at the mouth a dense line of short white hairs which represent the 
ligula. 
CCCCLII,—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
R MAJESTY THE QUEEN- has been graciously pleased to allow the 
E excluding the publie from the Palace Meadow to be removed. 
cee pies e of ground is about 4l acres in extent and when thrown 
allow visitors a instead of a s Caii, dod to the 
Yo part of be Arboretum. | 
The Royal Gardens are 251 acres in extent. It is not ecticrally 
understood that they were originally t the private property of the Crown, 
and. not acquired out of. public funds. ‘The bvilding used for the 
Herbarium and Library was sold to the nation by George IV. Access 
to the remainder has been step by step c wc the public by the 
liberality and munificence of Her, Majesty the 
'The successive stages may be briefly Pci :— 
The Botanic Garden, of Mya qi aie: Hooker was appointed 
Director in 1841, comprised abo 
To this was almost ueque y (1843, ) ) aed between 3 and 4 acres 
about No. I. house, and the orangery (now No. III. Museum). 
n after (1844), by permission of the i ot 47 acres, including 
the pees 0 of water in hos of the Palm House, were added. from the 
Pleasure Grounds for the formation of a Pinetum. 
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