PLATE 118. 







ANDROPOGON INTERMEDIUS (R. Br. Prodr. 202), var. punctatus (Hack. Amir. 



in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 437). 



PERENNIAL. CULMS erect or ascending, usually simple, to 5 feet long. rather 

 stout. 



SHEATHS glabrous except the sometimes appressedly hairy nodes, terete, tight, 

 longer than the internodes, or the upper shorter; ligules very short, truncate. 

 often with hairs from behind. Blades linear, tapering to a long fine point, t-3fl 

 inches long by H-4 lines wide, rather rigid, glabrous or sometimes hispid ;ii 

 base, usually smooth except the margins. 



PANICLE compound, oblong, dense, 4-7 inches long, usually purplish, common 

 rhachis, 2-5 inches long, branches like the short peduncles glabrous, except for the 

 bearded axils. Racemes slender, often Hexuous, joints and pedicels about half the 

 length of the spikelets or slightly longer, ciliate, cilia usually shorter than the 

 joint. Scs.-iile spi /evicts linear-oblong, li-lf line long, purplish, callus minutely 

 bearded. Glumes, lower rather thin, slightly truncate, pitted, glabrous or more 

 or less hairy below the middle, intracarinal nerves faint, 4-7, keels spinulously 

 ciliate above, rarely smooth ; upper acute or sub-acute. ::-nerved, scantily ciliate 

 or glabrous. Valves, lower oblong, sub-obtuse, nerveless, glabrous ; /'/</*/ almost 

 reduced to a very slender kneed awn, 5-7 lines long. Pedicelled spikelets male or 

 barren, usually not pitted, sometimes reduced to the glumes. 



NATAL. Banks of Umlaas River, Dri'i/f : Umpuinul<>. /></, 

 295; without precise locality, (iiivinzitt.i ; Umhlanga. Wood 



Figured from Wood's specimen. 



Wood's No. GOG1 was sent to Professor Hackel, who named it A. 



lotes 

 >pical 



Roxb., but the Flora Capensis ([notes the plant as a variety of - /. intermedius, 

 R. Br., which is a native also of Tropical Asia and Australia. 



KIJJ. 1 Plant iiiitiinil size ; 2, rluu-his \\itli sessile ;;n:l podiccllcil sjiikclcts. 

 tpikelet .'i, lower fylnino, back view : ,'i;i. siiin;'. front view : 4, upper frlinne : ~>. lower valve j 

 'i. upper vsilve : 7. st:nnens, pistil Mild loilieules. I'rdirrHctl .-.irhdct- s', lowei' yliiine : !. n 

 glume. Except fig. 1, nil ,;il,,r<i,',l. 



