PLATE 428. 



EuAtaiosTis ciLiAKis Link. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII. , p. G2'J). 

 Nat. Order Graininetu. 



ANNUAL OR SUBI-EKENNIAL ('.) tufted. CULMS geuiculate, ascending, often 

 from a procumbent base, slender, | to 2 feet long, glabrous, smooth, simple or 

 branched below, about 3-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths striate, tight, 

 glabrous or scantily hairy, bearded with long hairs at the mouth ; ligule a fringe 

 of short hairs. Blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 3 to G inches by 1 to 2 lines, 

 usually involute, somewhat stiff and spreading, glabrous, or with scattered fine 

 long hairs, scaberulous. 



PANICLE spike- like, more or less lobed or interrupted, dense to very dense, 2 to 

 G inches long; axis scabrid ; branches adpressed, usually all very short or the 

 lowest up to 1 inch long, divided from the base, pedicels very short. 



Si'iKELETS crowded, ovate, strongly compressed, 1 to almost 2 lines long, 

 loosely G to 12-flowered, pallid, sometimes purplish ; rhachilla breaking up 



(li.UMKs oblong-lanceolate, acute, to almost 5- line long, 1 -nerved, keel 

 scabrid. Valves oblong in profile, subtruncate and mucronulate, spreading, about 

 |- line long, thin, side-nerves prominent, keel scabrid. Pales equal to the valves 

 and falling with them, keels of pale very long and rigidly ciliate. Anthers \ to -j 

 line long. Grain elongate-ovoid, ^ line long, brown. 



Habitat : NATAL. Common near the coast, Uuc/titncin 160 ; margins of woods 

 near the Umlazi River, Krauss 341? ; near Durban, McKen 124 ; Durban Flats, 

 Ji'iclufitf.iit, 38 ; Berea, Wood 5D2G ; between Umzimkulu and Umkomanzi llivers, 

 Di-cye 4270 ; and without precise locality, (j'enard G01 ; Zululand, 2000 feet alt., 

 Jenkinson G7, January. 



Drawn from Wood's 5D2G, but not more than 2 stamens were found in all the 

 florets examined The keel of the valve is ciliate at base in our specimens. 



" Common throughout tropical Africa and America, and in North India." 



Fig 1, Lower glume ; '2, upper glume ; 3, valve : on, valve iu profile ; 4, pule ; 5, pistil, 

 stamen* and lodieules. All cnlurycd. 



