PLATE 123. 



ANDROPOGON PLURIXODIS (Stapf. Fl. Cap. vii. 353). 



PKKEXXIAL, compactly tufted ; innovation shoots intravaginal. 



( VLMS slender, erect, 1-3 feet long, glabrous, smooth, simple below, 4-6 

 (rarelv ">) uoded, longest internode 6-10 inches long, rarely longer. Sheaths tight, 

 shorter than the internodes except the lowermost, which are fugaciously hairy to 

 tomentose at the very base, 1^-3 inches long, firm and persistent, the upper usually 

 much shorter ; ligules firm, verv short, up to 1 line long, rounded. Blades very 

 narrow, linear, filiform or setaceous in the upper part, 4-8 inches long, by 1-1^ line 

 broad, flat or partly folded, rather rigid below, flexuous above, glabrous, glaucous, 



Ergins scabrid. 

 PAMTLKS narrow, rather lax, usually scantily branched, 3-6 inches long, 

 cemes g-1 inch long at length horizontally spreading or deflexed on slender 

 peduncles, which are 3-5 lines long and subtended by lanceolate, acuminate, many 

 nerved, scarious, reddish spathes. |-1]- inch long; joints and pedicels linear, 

 slender, I - U line long, densely hairy along the margins, tips cupular, ii regularly 

 toothed. 



SIM K ;:I.KTS of the lowest pair of the sessile raceme alike, male, of the sessile 

 of all the other pairs perfect, the pedicelled male. Perfect spikelets very narrow, 

 lanceolate, acute, 3 lines long. Glumes, fuiccr chartaceous, acute, or 2-toothed, 

 more or less concave between the keels which are rounded and smooth near the 

 base, obscnrelv winged and scabrid towards the reddish or purplish tips, intra- 

 carinal nerves 2-5, the middle one or all evanescent below ; upper sub-chartaceous, 

 lanceolate, acute, 1 -nerved, glabrous (ciliate in our specimen). Valves hyaline; 

 Inin-r linear. 2-2J, lines long, ciliate : upper slightly shorter, linear-oblong to linear, 

 deeply hiiid, lobes lanceolate t. subulate. Awn slender, 5-8 lines long, kneed at 

 or below the middle. Pale 0. Anthers Ij line long. Pedicelled stptkelets dorsaXly 

 compressed, lanceolate, acuminate. 3-3] lines long, purplish. Glumes, lotrer inany 

 nerved. keels scabrid ; np//<'i' 3-5-nerved, with or without a median keel. Valves, 

 wer linear-lanceolate, 2^ lines long. 2 nerved, ciliate; upper 0. Pale 0. 



Habitat: NATAL. < )n Tugela River near Colenso, Jiclnnnini 7158; Biggars- 

 ffg, ItelniHinii 7112; Mooi lliver. April. \Vn<1. 4318. 



gured from Wood's 43 IS. 



This plant was formerly known as. or confused with A. iii'tn/iii'itiix, but has 

 en separated as above, by L)r. Stapf, in Flora Capeusis. 



. >g . 1. Plant aliniit natural ci/e. Sessile perfect spikelets 1'. lower o-hnne, l, ;1 ck view; 

 . same, froul view ; o. upper a'lmne : 4, lower vahe : ."). upper valve; Ii. pistil, stamens and 

 lieules. /'</:<://,</ s/H/ir/H 7, lower -linne. front \ ie : . ii])pt'i' .yluine: !. lower ralvi : 

 i'. spiitlie witli 2-nate r.-scemes. /:'.i-rr/>/ ////. /. all enlarged. 



