PLATE 126. 



AXDROPOUOX AUCTUS (Stapf, Fl. (Jap. Vol. vii. 357). 



PERENNIAL. CULMS ei-ect, robust, up to -2 lines thick, 3-5 feet long, glabrous, 

 simple or more or less branched and 3-5-noded below the panicle, longest inter- 

 node over \ foot long. Sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, the lowest crowded, 

 compressed, subpersistent, the upper terete, shorter than the internodes ; ligules 

 oblong, up to 3j lines long. Blades linear, from a narrow, stoutly ribbed base, 

 tapering to a long, fine point, up to \\ foot, by l-2i lines broad, glabrous or 

 scantily hairy, glaucous. 



PANICLE lax, narrow, up to \\ foot long. Racemes \-\\ line long, very 

 villous, on slender, shortly and laterally exserted peduncles, having numerous long 

 tubercle-based hairs near the curvature. Spathes, joints, pedicels and spikelets 

 as in A. /n'rfiix, except for the pedicelled spikelets having a muticous lower glume 

 and subequal valves. 



Habitat : NATAL. Riet Vlei, Bwlnuxu, -l-l-l. 



Figured from Buchanan's specimen in the Government Herbarium. 



Fiji. 1, Panicle, natural size. Prdlrrllril */>///</ 2, lower "flume, front view ; 3, upper 

 glume, front view : -1, lower valve ; 5, upper valve. Kxetpt^g. 7, nil enlarged. 



