PLATE 437. 



ClILOlUS GAYAXA, Klllltll. (Fl. Clip., Vol. VII., |). ()4) 



Xat. Order Graminete. 



PKKKXMAL on ANMAI,, i to 4 feet high. CULMS erect or geniculately-ascending, 

 or prostrate at the base, simple or branched, often emitting fascicles of barren shoots 

 or short runners from the lowest nodes, often robust, 3 to 9-noded, compressed below, 

 glabrous, smooth, upper internodes usually exserted ; sheaths glabrous or sparingly 

 hairy near the mouth, smooth, the lower strongly compressed, keeled, keels sometimes 

 scabrid, the uppermost sometimes tumid ; ligules membranous, very short, long-hairy : 

 blades linear, long-tapering to a fine point, to more rh;m 1 foot by o to 4 lines when 

 expanded, flat or folded, glabrous or hirsute near the base, green, smooth below, rough 

 above and on the margins. Spikes (i to 1"). umbelled. sessile, suberect, rarely 

 spreading, '2% to 4 inches long, greenish or brownish ; rhachis scabrid. 



SriKKLKTs l line long, 3-4-Howered, shortly i-a\vned. 



Ks very unequal, the lower ovate-lanceolate, acute, subhvaline, J to - { line 

 long, the upper oblong, obtuse, mueronate, 1 to Inline long, h'rmer. scaberulous : lowest 

 valve oblong, subobtuse or acute, minutely 2-toothed, ciliolate along the marginal 

 nerves and shortly bearded below the tips or only finely bearded (in the South African 

 species), or almost glabrous, with a f sometimes minutely hairy) groove on each face : 

 awn as long or slightlv longer than the valve, straight : callus minutely bearded : 

 pile glabrous, keels scabrid : anthers | line long, second valve, with a male flower, like 

 the preceding, but glabrous, 1 line long, awn 1 line long or less : third (and fourth) 

 valve rudimentary, cuneate in profile, empty, awnless. 



: XATAI,. I'mlax/i Kiver, Dmjc ; Uwadu&HSi, Sutlierland ; near Durban, 

 Williamson 43 ; tlmpumulo, Buchanan 1SS. 



Also in tropical Africa. 

 Drawn from Buchanan's 1SS. 



Fig 1, Lower glume ; '2, upper ^liiuie ; 3, valve ; 4, pale ; 5, pistil, sttuneus and lodicules 

 6, second valve ; 7, rudimentary valve. All enlarged* 



