4:W CXLTI. GRAMTNE^. 



drical, spike-like ]\anicle. Glumes thin and delicate ; the two 

 outer clothed with very lone:, silky hairs ; the third smaller, 

 cjlabrous, empty ; the flowerinof j^lume and palea still shorter, 

 broad, entire or toothed. Stamens 2. Sti<2[mas lont^ and 

 narrow, plumose, reddish. G-rain free, enclosed in the glumes. 

 —Xecs, I.e. p. 88 ; Bentk. Ft. Konfjlc. p. 419. 



/. arundinacen, Cyr., a common grass of warm countries, occurs on tlio 

 Eastern frontier and at Natal. 



17. ERIOCHRYSIS, Eeauv. 



Spikelets in pairs (the terminal in threes), 1-flowered, along 

 the jointed branches of a much-divided panicle ; 1 sessile, the 

 other pedicellate, both fertile. Outer glumes 2, rigid, boat- 

 shaped, nerved, pointless, nearly equal. Flowering glume and 

 j^alea very thin and ti'ansparent, pointless ; the glume longer 

 and broader than the palea, concave, ciliate. Grain free. — 

 Kiinth, Enum. i. p. 473. 



E. pallida, Munro, found at Magalisberg by Burke and Zeylier, is a rigid 

 grass, with involute leaves, and a culm about 2 feet high, bearing a close 

 panicle, clothed with long silky, fulvous hairs, a whorl of which surrounds 

 every joint of the racliis, forming an involucre to each spikelet. 



18. EULALIA, Trin. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, both pedicellate, along the 

 slender, unjointed branches of a diffuse panicle, each spikelet 

 girt at base T\dth rufous hairs. Outer glumes 2, rigid, papery, 

 pointless, villous, the low^er 2-nerved ; third glume also empty, 

 thinner. Flowering glume very narrow, 2-fid, ending in a long 

 awn ; palea very small and narrow. Grain free. — Erianthus, 

 Nees, I.e. p. 92. 



Tall, rigid grasses, 3-4 feet high (like small reeds), with convolute leaves ; 

 the culm bearing a large, much-branched, softly hairy, fulvous panicle. 

 — 3 Cape species. 



19. POLLINIA, Trin. 



Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, 1 sessile, the other pedicellate 

 along the spike-like branches of a simple panicle ; the rachis 

 jointed at each pair, each spikelet surrounded by silky hairs. 

 2 outer empty glumes, stiff, awnlcss ; the lowest with 2 of the 

 lateral nerves prominent, the central faint ; second glume 

 keeled, stiff; third also empty, smaller, thin and transparent ; 

 flowering glume small and thin, with a long awn, twisted at 

 base. Grain free. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 420 ; Eulalia, Nees, 

 I.e. p. 90. 



P. vlllosa, Munro (Eulalia villosa, Necs), a rather coarse grass, 1-2 feet 

 high ; the culm bearing 3-1 hairy, fulvous, awncd sjnkes, is common on 

 and beyond the Eastern frontier. — There are 3 or 4 other Cape species. 



