PLATE 113. 



Andropooox eucomus (Nees. Fl. Afr. Austr. 104). 



Perennial, densely tufted. — Culms slendei^ 1 to 3 feet long, glabrous, 4 to 6 

 or more noded, simple to or beyond the middle, then distantly branched. Branches 

 long, -s-ery slender, solitary or 2-3-nate, simple or again branched. 



Leaves mainly basal. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous or hairy 

 near the mouth, rarely "lower down, the lower compressed, keeled, the upper 

 distant, sub-tumid. Ligules membranous, very short, truncate, ciliolate. Blades 

 linear, acute, folded, 3 inches to 1 foot by l-l^- lines long (unfolded), glabrous or 

 hairy, pale green. Spathe linear, setaceously acuminate, glabrous, 2 inches long, 

 usually exceeding the filiform glabrous peduncle. 



Bacemes 2-4-nate, 1-1 g- inch long, very slender, flexuous, sub-erect or nodding,, 

 silvery plumose, joints filiform, shorter than the spikelets, silky with soft long 

 (about 5 lines) hairs. Pedicels similar, exceeding the spikelets, barren. 



Spikelets lanceolate, oblong, 1-1|- line long, often purplish. Glumes mem- 

 branous, acute, /o«'e>' nerveless between the scabrid keels. Callus minute, long- , 

 bearded, upper 1-nerved. Yalves, /o^rf/' nerveless, ciliate ; ?;j)pf'r lanceolate-oblong, 

 lobes very fine. Awn a fine bristle, 6-9 lines long. Pale veiy minute. Anthers 

 ^ line long. Gi'ain over J line long. 



R&hitsA : Natal. Abundant on coast flats, Buchanan 211; Durban Flat,. 

 Buchanan 2G, TT'oor^ 16.54 ; Zuhiland, JenJdnson 16; Dundee, Green 32a; near 

 Durban, Wood 6004. 



Figured from Wood's 6004 and 1654, compared with Green's and Jenkinson's 

 specimens. 



Fig. 1, Plant about natural size ; 2, rliachis Avitli sessile, and rudimentary pedicel of 

 upper spikelet ; 3, lower glume ; 4, upper glume : 5. lo\yer valve ; 6. upper valve ; 7, pale ; 

 8, ovary, style, stigmas, stamens and lodicules. Excejit Ji(j. 1, nil enlarrjed. 



