PLATE 449. 



PHALAKIS AKUNDINACKA, Linu. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII., p. (>X3). 

 Xat. Order Graminea-. 



PEKENNIAL. KHIXOMK short, pnemorse, stoloniferous : stolons with firm, searious, 

 sheathing scales. 



CULMS erect from a creeping or ascending base. '2 to 4 feet long, rooting at the 

 lower nodes, simple or very sparingly branched, firm, glabrous, finely striate, ."> to 7 

 or more noded. internodes gradually longer from the base, up to 1 foot long : sheathH 

 glabrous, smooth, h'nelv striate, hirer tight, longer than the internodes, ///>/>> looser. 

 shorter: ligule scarious, white, obtuse, 1J to 3 lines long; blades linear to lineal-- 

 lanceolate, long tapering, to 1 foot, by 3 to S lines, rigid, glaucous, glabrous. 

 smooth, many nerved. 



PANICLE erect, sometimes nodding, contracted, lobcd or spike-like. up to S inches 

 long ; branches very short, adpressed to the rhachis. or longer (to l inch) and more 

 or less spreading, copiously and densely branched, glabrous, smooth or seabrid. 



SIMKELETS ovate-lanceolate, '2^ to 3 lines long. 



GLUMES sub-equal, whitish-green or purplish acute. 3-nervcd, keel not or very 

 obscurely winged, minutely serrulate, nerves raised. Kmpty valves sub-equal, 

 lanceolate to subulate, obscurely 1 -nerved or nerveless, hairy with a callous base. | line 

 long. Fertile valve scantily silky. 1J line long. Pale ciliate on the back. Lodiculea 

 obli(juely ovate-lanceolate. Anthers 1| line long. 



Habitat : NATAL. By the Mooi Hivcr. 4000 feet altitude. Wood I0'.7 : Van 

 Keenen's Pass. Wood 7215, partly. 



Also in Europe. 



D'-awn from Wood's 7^1"). 



This grass is said to be indigenous in Norway, and Baron F. v. Mueller says ol 

 it : " Not without some importance as a reedy grass of bulky yield on wet meadows 

 or in swampy places. A variety with white-striped leaves is a favourite as a ribbon 

 plant for garden plots." /*. rnnarienx/x, the " Canary grass." belongs to this genus. 



Fig 1, Spikelet ; 2, glume ; 3, rudimentary valve; 4, fertile valve; 5 nale : (i, pistil, 

 stamens and lodicules. All cnhirycd. 





