PLATE 104. 



FASOICULATUM (Brongn. Voy. Coq. Bot. 73). var. arcuatum (H.-ick. 

 Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 235). 



PERENNIAL. CULMS ascending or suberect from a slender creeping rhizome, 

 more or less branched and fascicled near the base, or simple ; 1 -3 feet long, rather 

 slender, glabrous, 5-many noded. Sheaths equalling or exceeding the internodea 

 Bubterete, glabrous, rarely hairy ; ligules minute, truncate, ciliate. Blades linear- 

 lanceolate, setaceously acuminate ; 3-8 inches long by 3-6 lines broad, flat, quite 

 glabrous, or hairy on the back near base, smooth, midrib white. 



KACEMES (false spikes) fascicled, 2-5, stout, straight or flexuous, 2-5 inches 

 long, hairy; joints stout, triquetrous, lf-1 J line long, slightly curved, keel (outer 

 angle) ciliate with yellowish hairs. 



SPIKELETS 2-nate, 1 subsessile the other pedicelled. SnJ>.-<r.^i/c 

 lines long, reddish above, pedicel ^ hue long or shorter, bearded at the base, (ilumes, 

 Joirer lanceolate-oblong, acutely and shortly 2-tootbed, coriaceous below, flat and 

 more or less distinctly 5 -ribbed on the back, scaberulous, scantily hairy, keels 

 winged near the tips, scabrid, intracarinal nerves 5-9 ; upper slightly longer than 

 the lower, lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, 3-5-nerved, keeled above. Valves, 

 luirt'i- lanceolate, almost as long as the subtending glume, rigidly membranous, 

 glabrous, 3-nerved, with an almost equal pale and a male flower : upper oblong. 

 hyaline, deeply 2-fid, 2 lines long, delicately membranous, 3-norvi-d, lobes very 

 broad, ciliate; awn 4-5 lines long, twisted below. Pale as long as. or slightly 

 longer than, the valve, acute. Anthers 1 line long. Pedicelled xpikelets 2i lines 

 lng. reddish, pedicel 2 lines long, more or less hairy on the back. Lower glume 

 lanceolate, boat-shaped, keeled, 7-9-nerved, loosely hairy ; the rest as in the sub- 

 sessile spikelets. 



NATAL. Coast districts generally, often in woods and marsliv places. 

 Near Durban, lln<-1iiut- 32; 109; \Vno<l 5'J45 ; near Umzimkulu, ' l)ir</<' : 

 t'mpuniulo, Itiic/iitiian 209 ; without precise locality, d'errard f>7!) ; Harvey W\ 

 Zuhiland, Jenlcinson 87. 



Figured from specimens gathered near Durban, February, KS ( Ji). 



In Harvey's gcnei-a of South African plants, this i.s quoted as Spoil iofiixjon 

 OTCUatus, Nees. CJood for pasture, according to Mr. Celliers, per Mr. W. E. Green. 



Fig. 1, Plant about natural si/.c : 2, rhacliis witli .sessile and subsessile spikelets. ,SV.WA 

 tplhelei : -'.}. Lower {rhtme ; 3a, same, back view ; 4, upper glume, side view ; 5, lower valve ; 

 , pale ot same; 7, perfect stamens and lodieules : 8, upper valve; 9, p:ile of same; 

 10, ovary, style and stigma.:. Kwptji,,. 1, '/ cnhm,c,L 



