(fthe Genui Ehrharta. 47 



time bulboiu, is a circumftance, I believe, hitherto not attended to. 

 Truth obliges me alfo to declare that the Ebrbarta mnemateay or Ca- 

 fenfts^ is not monogynous, but really digynous. The miftake, how- 

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

 ftigmas in the comprefled valves ftick clofc to one another, and ap- 

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

 quadr'ijubaium, fourmaned; but on a nearer fcrutiny, by the help of a 

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



Thunbcrg found this plant in the gralTy regions about Stvcllendtvn^. 

 and ia other places at the Cape. 



2. EH RH ART A panicea. 



JE. glumis coroUinis exterioribus glabris fubrugofis obtufis ; panicula 



fubramofo fecunda ; culmo fubdivifo. 

 E. panicea, culmo divifo^ panicula fubramofa,'floribus ereais digynis. 



Smith pi. ined. I. /. 9. 

 £, erc5la. Lamarck cncjcl.fp, 2. 



Descr. Radices longiffims, fimpliciufculx, filifdrmes, fibrilUs latera- 



libus brevibus, ex albido-fufcae. 

 Culmi csefpitofi, I— 2— 3 pedales, geniculati, infernedecum- 



bent-es, fubadfcendentes, ad genicula (prsfertim inferiora) 



fubdivifi, quafi ramofi^ tereti-comprefliufculi, glaberrimi, 



ftriatuli, foliofi. 

 Stolones tereti-fubulati albidi vaginati e radicibus ad bafia 



culmorum emifli. 

 Genicula majufcula, glabra. 

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



longitudinaliter ftriata glabra ; margine Integra leviter 



undulata fcabriufcula, oculo armato cartilagineo-ferru« 



latesijuniora pubefcentia, Ixte virentia^ 



Vagina- 



