PLATE 466. 



ANUROPOGON PERTUSUS, Willd. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII., p. 345). 

 Nat. Order Graminese. 



PERENNIAL. CULMS erect or ascending from the branched often prostrate 

 base, simple above, 1 to 2 feet long, glabrous, 5-6-noded ; sheaths rather terete, 

 except the compressed lower ones, usually bearded at the' nodes ; ligules truncate, 

 up to line long, often with hairs from behind. Blades linear, tapering to a tine 

 point, 2 to 6 inches by 1 to 2 lines, flat, glabrous or more or less hairy, scabrid. 

 Kacemes digitate, rarely more distant on a common rhachis not longer than the 

 lowest raceme, about 2 inches long ; peduncles usually glabrous except their bearded 

 axils, short, joints and pedicels equalling half the spikelet or slightly longer, ciliate, 

 upper cilia as long as the joint. 



Sessile spikelets about 2 lines long, lanceolate-oblong, pale, callus bearded. 



GLUMES, lower subchartaceous, minutely truncate, villous near the base, 

 faintly 5 to 9-nerved, pitted on the back, keels spinulously ciliate alx>ve ; 

 acute, sparsely ciliate or glabrous, 3-nerved. Valves, lower oblong, obtuse ; 

 almost reduced to a kneed awn, 6 to 10 lines long. 



Pedicelled spikelets usually male, not or shallowly pitted, purplish, 



Var. cfipensis, Hack. CULMS up to 4 feet long; blades 4 to 12 inches, by 2 

 to 3^ lines ; racemes few to 20 ; lower glume of sessile spikelets lather firm, 

 glabrous or very scantily hairy, pale, shining, 2 to 2|- lines long ; pedicelled 

 spikelets usually 2-3-pitted. 



NATAL. Without precise locality, Germrd 692 ; mr. capcnxis, 

 foot of Table Mountain, near Maritzburg, Krauss 29 ; Qmpumulo, Buchanan 190, 

 295, partly ; without precise locality, Buchanan 201 ; near Maritzburg, T. J. St. 

 George 6 (Wood 7246). 



Drawn from the specimen collected by St. George. 



Fig 1, Portion of raceme, showing sessile and pedicelled spikelets. Sessile xpikelet Fig '2, 

 lower glume; 3, upper glume ; 4, lower valve ; 5, upper valve; 6, pistil, stamens and lodicules. 

 Pedicelled spihckt 7, lower glume ; 8, upper glume ; 9, valve and stamens. All enlurtjcd. 



