44.0 CXLII. GRAMINE. 
drical, spike-like panicle. Glumes thin and delicate ; the two 
outer clothed with very long, silky hairs; the third smaller, 
glabrous, empty; the flowering glume and palea still shorter, 
broad, entire or toothed. Stamens 2. Stigmas long and 
narrow, plumose, reddish. Grain free, enclosed in the glumes. 
—WNees, l.c. p. 88; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 419. 
I. arundinacea, Cyr., a common grass of warm countries, occurs on the 
Eastern frontier and at Natal. 
17. ERIOCHRYSIS, Beauv. 
Spikelets in pairs (the terminal in threes), 1-flowered, along 
the jointed branches of a much-divided panicle ; 1 sessile, the 
other pedicellate, both fertile. Outer glumes 2, rigid, boat- 
shaped, nerved, pointless, nearly equal. Flowering glume and 
palea very thin and transparent, pointless; the glume longer 
and broader than the palea, concave, ciliate. Grain free.— 
Kunth, Enum. i. p. 473. 
E. pallida, Munro, found at Magalisberg by Burke and Zeyher, is a rigid 
grass, with invyolute leaves, and a culm about 2 feet high, bearing a close 
panicle, clothed with long silky, fulvous hairs, a whorl of which surrounds 
every joint of the rachis, forming an involucre to each spikelet. 
18. EULALIA, Trin. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, both pedicellate, along the 
slender, unjointed branches of a diffuse panicle, each spikelet 
girt at base with rufous hairs. Outer glumes 2, rigid, papery, 
pointless, villous, the lower 2-nerved ; third glume also empty, 
thinner. Flowering glume very narrow, 2-fid, ending in a long 
awn; palea very small and narrow. Grain free.—Erianthus, 
Nees, l.c. p. 92. 
Tall, rigid grasses, 3-4 feet high (like small reeds), with convolute leaves; 
the culm bearing a large, much-branched, softly hairy, fulvous panicle. 
—3 Cape species. 
19. POLLINIA, Trin. 
Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, 1 sessile, the other pedicellate 
along the spike-like branches of a simple panicle ; the rachis 
jointed at each pair, each spikelet surrounded by silky hairs. 
2 outer empty glumes, stiff, awnless ; the lowest with 2 of the 
lateral nerves prominent, the central faint; second glume 
keeled, stiff; third also empty, smaller, thin and transparent ; 
flowering glume small and thin, with a long awn, twisted at 
base. Grain free.-—Benth. Fl. Hongk. p.420; Eulalia, Nees, 
L.c. p. 90. 
P. villosa, Munro (Eulalia villosa, Nees), a rather coarse grass, 1-2 feet 
high; the culm bearing 3-4 hairy, fulvous, awned spikes, is common on 
and beyond the Eastern frontier.—There are 3 or 4: other Cape species. 
