of ihe Genus Ehrharia. . 51 



Urlor minor, teiierrima, acutiafcula, diaphana, apicc fub- 



ciliata. 

 I'ubenulum inter valv. inter, in hac fpeciedeert. 

 Keciarium : Pctala cuneiforniia, retufa, Integra, genitalia 



ample6lentia, albida, 

 "F'damenta 6, brevifllma. AntlnriC linearc>, minutse, flavrc, 



apice pollen emittcntes. 

 Germen ovatum, Styli duo, divergcntcs, glumis brcviores. 



Stigmata congenerum, albida. 



This kind is not lefs difllnft in its flowers than in the rigidity of 

 its branching culm, which, about the articulations, is almoft 

 ligneous. The panicles at the top of all the branches, being ge- 

 nerally undivided, have more the appearance of racenii. The flowers 

 fomewhat refemble thofe of the Feftuca decumbcns^ and arc quite bare, 

 with a calyx as long as the corolline valves, and frequently (not 

 always) diftinguilTied by dark tips. Thunbcrg, probably induced 

 by the outward refemblance of the flowers, made this fpecies a Me^ 

 lica\ but being in pofleflion of another, though lefs perfe6l, fpecimen, 

 (which he did not fuppofe to be the fame with his Melica ramofa^X 

 and having in that found the flowers correfponding with the cha- 

 ra6ler of Ehrharta^ he again inferted it in the Prodr.fi. Cap, imder 

 the appellation of Ehrharia d'lgyna. 



Thunberg met with this grafs in a valley diftant from the Cape, 

 called by the Dutch Zoetemeiks-valley. 



4. E II R HART A melicoides. 



£. glumis corolliuis exterioribus glaberrimis obtufis, panicula paten- 



tiflima: 

 Melica Capcrju, corollis glabris muticis, panicula patentiflima, foliis 



fubfiliformibus. T'bunb. prodr. Cap, p.zz. Spec, plant, ed. Wild, 



H 2 Descs. 



