PLATE 438. 



C'llLOKIS 1'KTK.KA, Thuilb. (H. Cil])., Vol. VII., ]). (>4o). 



Xat. Order (raminea, 1 . 



PERENNIAL, densely tufted. CU,MS erect, or suberect, 1 to '2 feet long, 2-noded, 

 compressed below, glabrous, smooth, internodes long-exserted. 



LKAVKS crowded at the base in a fan-like manner : sheaths strongly compressed, 

 keeled, glabrous, smooth, except on the scabrid keels ; ligule a ciliate rim ; blades 

 lineal-, acute or subobtuse, '2 to <S inches by % to o lines when expanded, usually 

 folded, glabrous, glaucous, smooth. Spikes o to cS, sessile, ~1 to 4 inches long, sub- 

 erect, brown, straight or gently curved ; rhachis pubescent at the base, scabrid. 



SPIKELKTS about 1 line long, 2-flowered : rhachilla joint between the valves very 

 short, terminal joint a bristle half as long as the upper valve or longer. 



lower oblong, subobtnse, not quite f line long, compressed. 

 broadly oblong, shortlv and obtuselv 2-lobed. about I line long, rounded or Hat on 

 the back, scaberulous, mucronate. Valves, lower obliquely ovate-oblong in profile, 

 verv obtuse, emarginate, cnrved-mucronate,' ciliate along the side-nerves (except 

 towards the base) and along the keel slightlv beyond the middle, brown, with an 

 elliptic -oblong subacute pale ; anthers line long ; upper \t\\\e obliquely cnneate in 

 profile, '} to 1 line long, glabrous, faintly nerved, with a delicate nerveless pale, and 

 subtending a male Mower. 



Habitat : XATAI,. Umpumulo, B-icliniMii 181) ; Pietermaritzburg, 1000-2000 

 I eel all., Wood 72,'>4. Drawn from Wood's 7234. 



Fig 1, Spikelel : 2, lower glume ; 3, upper glume; 4, valve : .">, pale : 6, pistil, stamens 

 and lodicules : 7, 2nd valve ; 8, pale ; 9, male floret. All cnluryed. 



