PLATE 437. 



CllLOKIS GAYANA, Kuiith. (Fl. Ciip., Vol. VIL, p. (ji2.) 



Xat. Order (Iriimineiu. 



Pkrexnial oil Ax>UAL, :2 to 4 feet high. — Cllms erect or genicu]atel\-ascendmg, 

 or prostrate at the base, simple or branched, often eniitthig fascicles of barren shoots 

 or short runners from the lowest nodes, often robust, 3 to 9-noded, compressed below, 

 glabrous, smooth, upper intemodes usually exserted ; sheaths glabrous or sparingl}- 

 hairy near the mouth, smooth, the loiver strongly compressed, keeled, keels sometimes 

 scabrid, the uppermost sometimes tumid ; ligules membranous, ver}- short, long-hairy ; 

 blades linear, long-tapering to a fine point, ^ to more than 1 foot by 8 to 4 lines when 

 expanded, fiat or folded, glabrous or hirsute near the base, green, smooth below, rough 

 above and on the margins. Spikes G to 15, mnbelied, sessile, suberect, rarely 

 spreading, 2J to 4 inches long, greenish or Ijrownish ; rhachis scabrid. 



Spikelkts IJ line long, 8--4-flowered, shortly 2-awned. 



Gi.uMKS very unequal, the ?o(i'c;' ovate-lanceolate, acute, subh valine, ^ to ^ line 

 long, the upper oblong, obtuse, nnicronate, I to Inline long, firmer, scaberulous : lowest 

 valve oblong, subobtuse or acute, miiaiteh' 2-toothed, ciliolate along the marginal 

 nerves and shortly bearded below the tijjs or onh' finely bearded (in the South African 

 sjjccies), or ahnost glabrous, with a 'sometimes minutely hairy) groove on each face ; 

 awn as long or slightly longer than the val\e, straight ; callus miiiutely bearded ; 

 pale glabrous, keels scabrid ; anthers f line long, second valve Avith a male flower, like 

 the preceding, but glabrous, 1 line long, awn .1 fine long or less ; third (and fourth) 

 valve rudimentary, cuneatc in profile, eni])ty, awnlcss. 



H&bitEt : Natai^. LImlazi Kivci-, Dreyc ; Ll^maduaiia, Sutherland : near Diu'ban, 

 Williamson 4-3 ; Umpunmlo, Buehanan 18S. 



Also in tropical Africa. 



Draun i'rom Buchanan's 1.S8. 



Fig 1, Lower ghtme ; 2, uppei- glume ; 3, valve ; 4, pale ; 5, pistil, stamens and lodicules ; 

 6, second valve ; 7, rudimentary valve. All eiilurycd. 



