i>f the Genus Ehrharla. 51 



lerior minor, teiierrlma, acutiufcula, diaphana, apicc fub- 



cUiata. 

 7'uberculum inter valv. inter, in hac fpecie deeft. 

 NeSlarium: Petala cuneiformia, retufa, integra, genitalia 



ampleiSlentia, albida. 

 Filamenta 6, breviffima. Anthera lineares, minutSG, flavae, 



apice pollen emittentes. 

 Germcn ovatunn. Styl'i duo, divergentes, glumis breviores. 



Stigmata congeneriim, ulbida. 



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

 its branching culm, which, about the articulations, is almofl: 

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

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

 fomewhat refemble thofe of the Fejluca decuvibenSy and are quite bare, 

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

 always) diftinguil'hed by dark tips. Thunberg, probably induced 

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

 lica; but being in pofleflfion of another, though lefs perfect, fpecimen, 

 (which he did not fuppofe to be the fame with his Melica ramofa,) 

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

 ra6ter of Ehrharta^ he again inferted it in the Prodr.JL Cap. under 

 the appellation of JLbrharta dlgyna. 



Thunberg met with this grafs in a valley difl:ant from the Cape, 

 called by the Dutch Zoetemelki-valley. 



4, EHRHARTA melicoides. 



E. glumis corollinis exteiiorlbus glaberrimis obtufis, panicula paten- 



tiflima. 

 Melica Capctijis, corollis glabris muticis, panicula patentifllma, folirs 



fubfiliformibus. Tbunb.prodr. Cap. p.zi. Spec, plant, ed. Wild. 



Ha ' Descr. 



