PLA.TE 114. 



ANDEOPOGON APPENDICULATUS (Nees. Fl. Af'r. Axistr. 105). 



PERENNIAL, densely tufted. CULMS erect, 2-3 feet long, glabrous, compressed 

 or terete, 5-6-noded, simple below, remotely branched from the upper 2-3 nodes, 

 branches solitary, long, straight, glabrous. 



LEAVES mostly crowded near the base. Sheaths glabrous or bearded at the 

 mouth, lower very firm, strongly compressed, keeled and persistent, upper shorter 

 than the internodes, tight, uppermost sub-spathaceous. Ligules membranous, very 

 .short, truncate, ciliolate. Blades linear, acute, usually folded, lower 4-1 2 inches 

 bv 1-2^ lines (unfolded), uppermost very short or obsolete, rigid, glabrous, or hairy 

 at the base, acutely keeled, margins scabrous. 



PEDi'M'LES generally longexserted, glabrous. Racemes 2-8. fascicled, unequal, 

 li-4 inches long, flexuous, slender, loose ; joints 2-3 lines long, thicker upwards. 

 hairy on the convex back, or only along the margins, hairs white, particularly 

 above, tips sub-cupular with irregularly toothed margins. Pedicels similar, more 

 slender, produced into a subulate appendage facing the upper glume. > 

 xftiL-i'lctx lanceolate, 3-3^ lines long, often purplish. (Jinnies sub-coriaceous to 

 chartaceous, glabrous; lower acute or acuminate, dorsallv concave, keels a 

 scabrid, or rigidly ciliate, callus scantily bearded; y^/-v boat shaped. l-ner\vd. 

 Valves, Join-i- oblong-lanceolate, faintly 2-nerved, softly ciliate : HJ>/><',- L> Hues lung. 

 bifid to middle, 1 -nerved, lobes very narrow, ciliate. Awn 5-7 lines long, kneed 

 below the middle. Pale line long, ciliate. Anthers 1 line long, /'r'/irr/lct! 

 spikelets, male, narrowly lanceolate, 3-3^- lines long, purplish, glabrous. (Jhiines. 

 IIHI-CI- acuminate, with a median keel in the upper part ; njij>cr 1 -nerved, resembling 

 the entire lanceolate, muticous, reversedly ciliate valves. 



Habitat: NATAL. Durban Flat, J^K-^mn,, 41 ; Kiet Vlei, Buchanan 192>j 

 Umpumulo, Buchanan 191 ; Mooi River, Ma*,,, 29, 45 ; Zululand. Jenkiiwon 48: 

 Dundee, Green 70, 70 ; near Durban, Wood 6049 ; Zululand, Sicanjield. 



Valuable as food" Blaauw-Gras." (Mr. Celliers, per Mr. W. E. (Jreen.) 



Fi<?. 1, Plant about natural size. .SV.w/r spikekt ~2. l<.w.->t o-l, mi! >, l,a,-k vi,-w : L'a. same, 

 t wewj 3, upper glume; 4, lowest valve; ,',. ,,,., valve; li, pal,-: 7, stamens, style, 



-IUIMMS nvary and lodicules. PcdicclM spikclct S, lowest jrl, imc ; !). ;,,., ylmne : 



10, rhacWa of sp.kelet. K frrpt f (J . ;, // ,],,,,,,,. 



