PLATE 415. 
ErAGRO.STIS NEBUL08A, Stapf. (FI. ( ap., V(tl. VII., p. (503), 
Nat. Order Graniiueie, 
Perennial, densely tufted on a short oljlujiie rliizonie. 
Culms erect, rather slender, stiff, 2 to -l feet long, glabrous, smooth, about 
3-noded, internodes long, exsei'ted, nodes slightly marked ; loircr sheaths com- 
pressed, more or less kee'ed, 4 to 5 inches long, very tirm, usually scarcely striate, 
quite glabrous, very smootli, often shining, upper tight, terete scantily bearded at 
the mouth or quite glabrous : ligule a fringe of very minute hairs ; b'ades very 
narrow, finely filiform and caniculate below, capillary in tlie upper part, 1 foot long 
or longer, cons])icuously narrower tlian the sheath at their ju)iction. rather rigid 
below, very tlexuous above, glabrous, smooth or scal)erulous towards the ti}>s. 
Panicle erect or nodding, large, at length open and very lax, \ to 1^ foot 
long and almost as wide, axis tilif )rm, terete, smootli ; branches 3-2-nate or partly 
solitary, at length spreading, the longest 4 to G inches long and unfli\'ided fir 1 to 
2 inches from tlie base, then like the rest distantly branched, finely filiform, 
glabrous, smooth or scaberulous ; branchlets again scantily and loosely divided, up 
to 1.1, inch long, like the often lojig pedicels capillary and very flexuous. 
Spikelets linear, acute, 2 to 3 lines by g- to -| line, loosely 4 to lO-flowered, 
olive-grey ; rhacliilla subpersistent, very slender, smooth. 
Glumes subequal, lanceolate, acute in profile, f to | line long, delicate, 
1-nerved, keel scaberuLius Valves lanceolate-oblong in profile, acute to sub- 
acuminate g line long, membranous, smooth, slightly shining, side-nerves faint and 
short. Pales e(|ualling the valves, keels smooth or almost so. Anthers ^ to J line 
long ; grain oblong, § line by ^ line, brown. 
Hdbitat : Natal. On the Drakensberg Range, near Newcastle, Buclianaa 
190 ; De Beers Pass, 5000-6000 feet alt., Wood 5992 ; Mooi Puver, 3000 to 4000 
feet alt , Mason 40 {Wood 7325); near Greytown, 3000-4000 feet alt., Wood 7343. 
Drawn from Wood's 7343. 
Fig 1, Lower glume ; 2, ujiper glume ; 3, valve ; 4, pale : 5, ])isti], stamens aud lodicules. 
All ealarcjcd. 
