PLATE 142. 



DKJITARJA THVERSINERVIS (Stapf Fl. Cap. Vol. VII. p. ,379.) 



PERENNIAL (?). CULMS ascending from a prostrate, rooting, loosely branched 

 base, very slender, weak, up to 1|- foot long, glabrous, 4-6 noded ; uppermost inter- 

 in xle by far the longest, long exserted. Leaves glabrous or very sparingly hairy; 

 sheaths thin, the lower withering ; ligules very short. Blades linear-lanceolate, 

 acute, 1-3 inches by l|-2j lines, flat, flaccid, scaberulous in the upper part, margins 

 scabrid. 



RACEMES subdigitate, slender, erect or spreading, l|--2 inches long, minutely 

 villous at the insertion. Rhachis very narrow and wavy, triquetrous, angles 

 scabrid, internodes up to 2 lines long. Pedicels 2-nate, one very short, the other 

 up to 1 line long, triquetrous, scaberulous. 



Si-iKKLKTS oblong, acute, l line long, greenish, glabrous. Glumes thin, 

 r broadly ovate, up to $ line long, 1 -nerved, or nerveless; upper ovate, acute, 



1 line long, ! -sub-3-nerved. Valves equal, lower 7-9 nerved ; upper subchartaceous, 



acuminate, pale to dark brown. 



Habitat .'NATAL. In woods near Durban, Drege ; Plant 56; Me Ken 10 ; 

 I)ui-l)an Flat, H>i{-li<innn; without precise locality, Gerrard, 695; 589 ; Berea, 150 



f'ert ,-ilt.. Wood 5923. 



Drawn from Wood's specimen, 



Fig. 1. Ligule : 2. rlmcliis Avith 2-nate pedicels; 3, lower glume; 4, upper glume: 5, 

 lower valve. Imck view : (i, same, front view ; 7, upper valve, front view ; 8, same, hack view ; 

 9, pale, front view : 10, same, back view ; 11, ovary, styles, stigmas, stamens and lodiculcs. 

 All enlarged. 



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