PLATE 126. 



Andeopogon auctus (Stapf, Fl. Cap. Vol. vii. 357). 



Perennial. — Culms erect, robust, up to 2 lines thick, 3-5 feet long, glabrous, 

 simple or more or less branched and 3-5-noded below the panicle, longest inter- 

 node over ^ foot long. Sheaths tight, glabrous or hairy, the lowest crowded, 

 compressed, subpersistent, the upper terete, shorter than the internodes ; ligules 

 oblong, up to 3 J lines long. Blades linear, from a narrow, stoutly ribbed base, 

 tapering to a long, fine point, up to 1|- foot, by 1-2;^ lines broad, glabrous o^ 

 jscantily hairy, glaucous. 



Panicle lax, narrow, up to Ij foot long. Racemes f-lg line long, very 

 villous, on slender, shortly and laterally exserted peduncles, having numerous long 

 tubercle-based hairs near the curvature. Spathes, joints, pedicels and spikelets 

 as in A. hirtus,- except for the pedicelled spikelets having a muticous lower glume 

 -and subequal valves. 



Habitat : — Natal. Riet Vlei, BilchaiKiu 222. 



Figured from Buchanan's specimen in the Government Herbarium. 



Fig. 1, Panicle, natural size. Pedicelled spikelet — 2, lower glume, front view ; 3, upper 

 ^lume, front \iew ; 4, lower valve ; 5, iipper valve. Except Jig. 1, all enlarged. 



