var. b: Galpinii (Stapf); culms erect, up to 2ft long, scabrid and pubescent above; basal sheaths usually rather long, strongly compressed, pallid; blades 1/2 - 1ft by 2-4lin., usually glaucous, more scabrid than the type; anthers more conspicuously bearded. The variety Galpinii is very distinct from the type in the eastern parts of the Cape Colony and in Natal; but in the west, it seems to pass completely into the latter as Captain Wolley Dod's specimens show. moist places; in humidis ad latera Montis Flora Capensis VII 437