Lfthe Gentis Ehrharia* 47 



time bulbouF, is a ciicumflance, I believ^e,. hitherto not attended to. 

 Truth obliges me alfo to declare that the Ebrbaria mnemaica, or Ca- 

 penjis^ is not monogynous, but really digynous. The miflake, how- 

 ever, was eafily made, becaufe the ftyles are very iliort, and the long 

 Aigmas in the comprelTed valves flick clofe to one anothci-, and ap- 

 pear as one, like a plume with four margins, and is called by Linnaeus 

 quadnjubaium^ fourmaned; but on a nearer fcrutiny, by the help of a 

 pin, it may be divided down to the top of the germen. 



Thunberg found this plant in the grafly regions about Swellendamt 

 and in other places at the Cape. 



2. EH RH ART A panicea. 



J?, glumis corollinis exterioribus glabris fubrugofis obtufis ; panicula 



fubramofo fecunda ; culmo fulidiviib. 

 JL, panicea., culmo divifo, panicula fubramofa, floribus ere6lis digynis. 



Smith pi. ined. i. /. 9. 

 E. eredia, Lamarck cncjcl.jp, 2. 



Descr. Radices longifiimEe, fimpliciufculse, filiformes, fibriUis latera- 



libus brevibus, ex albido-fufcse. 

 Ctf/w csefpitofi, I — 2 — 3 pedales, geniculati, inferne decum- 



bentea, fubadfcendentes, ad genicula (prsefertim inferiora) 



fubdivifi, quafi ramofi, tereti-comprefliufculi, glaberrimi>, 



flriatuli, foliofi. 

 Siolones tereti-fuhulati albidi vaginati e radicibus ad bafim 



culmorum emifli. 

 Cenicula majufcula, glabra. 

 Folia 2 — 6 pollicaria et ultra, lineari-lanceolata, acuta, ereda,, 



longitudinal iter ftriata glabra ; margine Integra leviter 



•undulata fcabriufcula, oculo armato cartilagineo-ferru«- 



ktesjJuQiora pubefcentia, la^te vircntia. 



Vagina- 



