PLATE 115. 



x SCHIRKNSIS (Hochst. ex Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 450) 

 var. angustifolia (Stapf). 



I'KKKNMAL, tufted. CULMS erect, slender, 2-3 feet long, glabrous, 3-4-noded, 

 simple, rarely with an additional flowering branch from one of the uppermost nodes. 



LKAVKS mainly crowded near the base. Sheaths terete, tight, glabrous, lowest 

 more <>r less persistent. Ligules membranous, very short, truncate. Blades narrow, 

 linear, tapering to a fine, sometimes setaceous point, 4-7 inches by 1 rarely 2 lines, 

 rather tirm. glabrous, rarely hairy below, margins scabrid. 



RACEMES 2-nate, rarely solitary, rather slender, 2-3J inches long, strict or 

 subflexuous. Joints and pedicels very similar, cuneate-linear, 2-3 lines long, tips 

 deeply hollowed and produced into a short irregularly toothed appendage, long 

 ciliate along the margins. Sessile spikelets strongly laterally compressed, wedged 

 in between the pedicel and the joint, 2^-3 lines long ; callus slender, pungent, 

 densely bearded. 1 line long, sunk in the hollow of the preceding joint. Glumes 

 subcoriaceous or chartaeeous, glabrous, smooth ; loircr linear, subacute, keels narrow, 

 with a deep narrow groove (fold) between them, seal lerulous above ; Mjpper* boat- 

 shaped, finely mucronate, 1-nerved. Valves. /nn\"r oblong-linear, obtuse, 2-nerved, 

 ciliate: ''/I/XT deeply bind, 1-nerved, lobes lanceolate, acute, ciliolate. Awn ^-Ij 

 inch long, slender, kneed and pubescent below the middle. Pale oblong, 1^ line 

 long, nerveless or sub-2-nerved. Anthers 1 line long. /W/r<Y/<W sjiil.-drfx male, 

 dorsally compressed. 4-f) lines long, often reddish or purple, Glumes subherbaceous, 

 acuminate, glabrous ; fmrcr acutely 2-keeled, keels scabrid or rigidly ciliate above, 

 intracarinal nerves S ; HJI/HT linear-lanceolate. 3-nerved, ciliate. Valves, loiro- as 

 in the sessile spikelets ; n/>/)cr linear, shortly 2-toothed, nniticous. Pale linear, 

 1 -1 ;y line lon. 



Habitat : NATAL. Umpumulo, tim-liiumi, 195 ; Riet V]ei,Bi-Jini,r<n 193, 19G ; 

 and without precise locality, /{"r/iumm. IK!, partly; near Dundee, (ii-i'cu. 92. 



Figured from Green's specimtu. 



Kif?. 1, Plant reduced. PediceUed spikelet- 2, lower glume,front view ; 3, same, back view ; 



4, \\\)\w "liinii-, fVont view: ,">, ii]>|)c-r v;ilv(>, front view; (i, pal;' : 7, shmu-us and lodicnlcs. 

 Sessile 'xpikelet 8, upper valve ; 9, Tower glume, liack view : 10, same, front view : ll.njipei- 

 ii'liinic, side view: 12, lower valve, front view : 1/5, stuinciis. ovsirv. sti<;in:is. ::nd lodienles ; 

 14. palf : 1.1, portion of rh;;eliis. llft-cpt Jit/. /, nJI <-n .'t 



