PLATE 168. 



SETAKIA LINDENBERGIANA, Stapf. (Fl. Cap. Vo 1 . VII. , p. 422). 

 Nat. Order Gramineaa. 



PERENNIAL. CULMS erect, simple or branched near the base, slender, 2 to 3 

 feet long, glabrous or pubescent arid sometimes with long soft hairs near the 

 panicle, 5 or more noded with the lower internodes short and enclosed when simple. 

 Branches few-noded. Sheaths tight, keeled above, striate, glabrous or hairy to 

 hirsute, lower firm, persistent, often strongly compressed ; ligule a ciliate rim. 

 Blades linear or linear-lanceolate from a long attenuate base, tapering to a fine 

 point, 3 to 12 inches, by Ij to G lines, closely plicately folded when young, at 

 length opening out (folds to 12), usually glabrous, scaberulous above. 



PANICLE linear to oblong, usually almost spike-like, often interrupted or 

 lobed, dense or lax, 2 to (> inches long ; axis angular, pubescent ; branches alternate 

 or irregularly approximate, 2 to 12 lines long, filiform, wavy, puberulous, simple 

 or divided from near the base ; bristles solitary, fine, scaberulous, wavy, 1 to 5 

 lines long, terminating the branches and branchlets, or sometimes in fascicles at 

 the base of the branches or solitary at the base of the lower spikelets ; pedicels 

 very short, tips discoid. 



SPIKELETS ovate-oblong, acute, 1 to l line long, glabrous, light green or 

 tinged with purple. 



GLUMES membranous, broadly ovate, obtuse ; lower 5 to sub-7-nerved, rather 

 less than half as long as the spikelet ; -upper 7-nerved, equalling about f the length 

 of the spike! et. Florets, lower male, equalling the spikelet; valve membranous, 

 broadly elliptic, obtuse, 7-nerved ; pale subequal to the valve, with narrowly 

 winged keels. Perfect floret elliptic-oblong, acute, equalling the lower floret; 

 valve subcoriaceous, 5-nerved, pallid or purplish, particularly upwards, finely and 

 closely transversely wrinkled. Anthers ^ line long. 



Habitat : NATAL. Inanda, 1800 feet alt , Wood 1419 ; in shady woods by the 

 Umgeni River, Krmtss 130. 



Also in Cape Colony, Orange River Colony, and in Tropical East Africa. 



Fijj 1, Portion of rliachis ; 2, lower glume ; 3, upper jrlume ; 4, lower valve ; 5, pale ; 

 6, stamens and Iodides ; 7, upper valve ; 8, pale ; ( J, pistil, stamens and lodicules. All 

 eiihinjcd. 



