PLATE 407. 
Sporobolus Rehmanni, Hack. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VIL, p. 585). 
Nat. Order Gramineas. 
Perennial. — Culms rather robust, geniculate, more or less compressed below, 
2 to 4 feet long, glabrous, smooth, 3 or 4-noded ; leaf sheaths rather tight, the 
lower slipping from the culms and rolling in or folding, broad, glabrous and smooth, 
or tubercled and hispid ; ligules reduced to a ciliate rim ; blades linear, tapering to 
a long fine point, 6 to 10 inches by 3 to 4 lines, flat or almost so, glaucous, 
glabrous or tubercled and hispid, primary nerves distant. 
Panicle erect, narrow, oblong, 1 to 1^ foot by 2 inches, ultimately rather lax ; 
rhachis smooth ; branches solitary or often irregulaily crowded, obliquely erect or 
at length spreading, filiform, smooth or almost so, 1 t(_) 3 inches long, loosely and 
repeatedly branched, the lowest branchlets up t(^ 9 lines long ; lateral pedicels 
extremely short. 
Spikelets olive-grey, lanceolate-oblong, | to almost 1 line long. 
Glumes unequal, the lower oblong, subacute, nerveless, about half the length 
of the spikelet, the iiiyper lanceolate-oblong, acute, about 5 the length of the 
spikelet, I -nerved. Valve like the upper glume, but longer. Pale almost equalling 
the valve. Stamens 3 ; anthers ^ line long. 
EdhitRt : Natal. Durban Flats, Buchanan 6 ; at the borders of woods near 
Umlazi Kiver, Kraiiss 7 ; Tugela River, 600 to 1000 feet alt., Burhaiian 245, 246. 
Drawn from Buchanan's 245, and compared with Buchanan's 246. 
Fic;- ], Lo'.ver glume ; 2, upper glume ; 3, valve ; 4, pale ; 5, pistil, stamens aud lodicules. 
All eiiluvfjcd. 
