PLATE 459. 



BKOMTS LKi'Tooi.Anus, Xees. (Fl. Cap. Vol. VII., p. 731). 

 Nat. Order (Jraminea>. 



PERENNIAL. CIT.MS erect or snherect from a short ol)li(|iu i rhizome, rather stout, 

 to more- than 2 feet high, glabrous or pubescent, particularly close to the nodes, about 

 I -mxled, uppermost internode to more than 1 foot long, exserted. 



LKAVKS usually scantily and spreadingly hairy or almost glabrous ; sheaths tight, 

 striate or sulcate, lowest thin, subpersistent, not breakh g up into fibres ; ligules 

 hyaline, 1 to 2 lines long. Blades linear, tapsring to an acute point, (5 to 10 inches by 

 '2 to 5 lines, flat, subHaccid, dull or sometimes subglaucous, strongly striate, scabernlous 

 to scabrid or almost smooth below, margins scabrid, midrib prominent below, whitish. 



PAXICUC 6 to 9 inches long, erect, very lax ; axis slender, striate ; branches 3 to 

 2-nate. filiform, scabrid, very flexuous, up to 5 inches long, undivided to about the 

 middli', then very scantily divided, branchlets 3 to 1-spiculate ; pedicels very unequal, 

 lateral often much shorter than the spikelets. 



SPIKELETS linear-oblong, K to 15 lines long, light grden, more or less erect, very 

 looselv .") to 10-flovvered ; rhachilla verv slender, joints scabrid, up to If line long. 



(Ji.tMKs unequal, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in profile, acute to subacute, 

 snbscarious, Imrei' 2^ to 4 lines long, 1 -nerved, 'i/jtjter broader, 3i to 4J lines long, 

 3-nerved, nerves strong and scabrid. Valves oblong-linear in profile, 4 to G lines 

 long, scabernlous or scabrid on the nerves, prominently 7-nerved, margins almost 

 straight to or beyond the middle, then very gradually curved towards the short 

 verv minutelv 2-tid tip, very narrow ; awn very close to the tip, fine, straight, 

 scaberulous, 2 to 3 lines long. Pales 4 to 5 lines long, keels rigidly ciliolate. Stamens 

 3 ; anthers about 1 to 1J line long. Ovary pubescent close below the appendage ; 

 grain when immature linear, strongly convexo-concave. 



Habitat : XATAT, Kiet Ylei, 5000 feet alt., Biti-haimn 236. 



Closely allied to the European E. asper, Mtirr. and E. scfibridtix, Honk, from 

 Cameroon Peak, and particularly to R. coy net tw, Stead ', from Abyssinia. 



Drawn from Buchanan's specimen, which was without leaves, and no stamens 

 or lodieules were to be found. 



Fig I, Lower glume ; 2, upper glume ; 3, valve ; 4, pale ; 5, grain. All enlarged. 



