PLATE 118. 



Andropogon intermedius (E. Br. Prodr. :2()2), var. punctatus (Hack. Andr. 



in DC. Monogr. Phaii. vi. 437). 



Perennial. — Culms erect or ascending, usually simple, to 5 feet long, rather 

 stout. 



Sheaths glabrous except the sometimes appressedly liairy nodes, terete, tight, 

 longer than the internodes, or the ujaper shorter ; ligules very short, truncate, 

 often with hairs from behind. Blades linear, tajjering to a long fine point, 4-30 

 inches long by 14^-4 lines wide, rather rigid, glabrous or sometimes hispid at the 

 base, usually smooth except the margins. 



Panicle comjaound, oblong, dense, 4-7 ijiches long, usually pur])lish, common 

 rhachis, 2-5 inches long, branches like the short j)eduncles glabrous, exce})t for the 

 bearded axils. Racemes slender, often flexuous, joints and pedicels about half the 

 length of the spikelets or slightly longer, ciliate, cilia usually shorter than the 

 joint. Sessile s^jikelets linear-oblong, li-l;^ line long, purplish, callus minutely 

 bearded. Glumes, hnver rather thin, slightly truncate, pitted, glabrous or more 

 or less hairy below the middle, intracarinal nerves faint, 4-7, keels spinulously 

 ciliate above, rarely smooth ; upper acute or sub-acute, 3-nerved, scantilv ciliate 

 or glabrous. Valves, loiccr oblong, sub-obtuse, nerveless, glabrous ; upper almost 

 reduced to a very slender kneed awn, 5-7 lines long. Pedicelled spikelets male or 

 barren, usually not pitted, sometimes reduced to the glumes. 



Habitant : Natal. Banks of Umlaas River, Drcr/e ; Umpuraulo, BvvhanaH 

 295; without precise locality, Gtieiiizi/is ; Umhlanga, IToor? 6061, 



Figured from Wood's specimen. 



Wood's No. 6061 was sent to Professor Hackel, \vho named it A. pimcfafi's, 

 Roxb., but the Flora Capensis quotes the jjlant as a variety of A. iiifr}-)j}eiUns, 

 R. Br., which is a native also of Tropical Asia and Australia. 



Fig. 1, Plant natiiriil size ; 2, rhachis ^^itll scsiiilo anil ])i,'ili('ellinl sjukelets. Sc.isile 

 spikelet — 3, lower glnme, back view ; .'Sa, same, front view ; 4, upper glume ; .j, lower valve : 

 6, upper valve; 7, s<tiiniens, ])istil and loJicules. PdliceUed spikelet- S, lower glume : i>, upper 

 glume. Except Jig . 1, all eiilanied. 



