PLATE 416. 
Ekaurustis plana, Nees. (Fl. Cap., Vol. YIL, p. r.oD). 
Nat. Order Graiuine;e. 
Perennial, densely tufted. — Ct'LMS erect or suljerect, strongly compressed^ 
2 to 3 feet long, glal)r(>us, smooth, 3-noded, upper internodes long, usually more or 
less exserted. 
Leaves cro\^ ded and almost flabellate at the base, striate, glabrous ; Io)rer 
sheaths strongly compressed, keeled, pallid ; ligule a dense fringe of short hairs ; 
blades very narrow, linear, long tapering to a setaceous point, tiglitly folded, 
flexuous, 8 to more than 12 inches long, closely striate, smooth on the lower, 
scabrid and whitish on the upper side. 
Panicle; narro^^■ linear to oblong, nodding, -i- to 1 foot long ; axis angular,^ 
smooth ; branches solitary, very unetpially distant, erect or slightly s])reading, 
subtiexuous or somewhat nodding, longest 1 to 4 inclies lr)ng, finely tiliform, more or 
less triquetrous, sinootli or scaljrid along the angles, remotely divided from near 
the base with the lower branchlets 3-2 sjiiculate, or all simply racemose ; pedicels 
up to 1^ line long. 
Spikelets linear, 3 to 0 lines, bv 1 line, olive-green to olive-grey, loosely 7 
to 15-flowered ; rhachilla sub})ersistent. 
Glumes very unequal, lanceolate to oblong, acute or obtuse, pallid, 1 -nerved, 
hnver about ^ line long, ijjqier i line long. Valves somewliat S[)reading, obliquely 
oblong in profile, fo'ded, acute or subacute, 1 to 1;^ line long, keel smooth, like the 
side-nerves prominent, rigid, almost straight. Pales eipial to the valves, keels 
cui-ved, scaberulous above. Anthers f to f line long ; grain oblong, |- line by g- 
line, reddish brown. 
Habitat: Natal. Berea, IToor/ 5028, 5937 ; Mooi Kiver, Wood 7-^20 ; Riet 
Vlei, BucJianan. 247 ; near Durban, ]Vi/I(((uisou 54 ; and without precise locality^ 
Buvliditan 244. 
Drawn from Wood's 5937. 
Fio- 1, TvO'.ver glume ; 2, upper glume ; 3, valve ; 4, pale ; 5, pistil, stamens aud lodicules- 
AJl cnhtnjpd. 
