PLATE 425. 
Eraorosttr oummiflua, Nees. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VIL, ]x 029). 
Nat. Order Graminea?. 
Perennial, conijjactly Cciespitose. -(Utlms firm, erect, slender or .somewhat 
stout, 1 to 2 feet long, glabrous, smooth, usually very viscous below the nodes, 3 
to .")-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths tiglit, striate, glabrous except at the 
l)earded mouth, more or less viscous, lowest persistent ; ligule a dense fringe of 
minute hairs ; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a setaceous point, usually tiliform- 
con volute, 4 to 10 inches long, I to 2 lines wide at the base when expanded, rigid, 
glabrous, smooth on the back, densely scabrid along the projecting nerves on the 
upper side. 
Panicle linear or narrow-t>blong, erect, 0 to 10 inches long ; rhacliis angular, 
smooth ; branches solitary or irregularly ap[)roximate and subvertlcillate, erect or 
obli(|uely erect, short or the lower up to ;] inches long, angidar, sniootli, divided 
from the base ; branchlets mostly very short, subsecnnd, with the spikelets in dense 
clusters ; pedicels very short. 
SpiKELETf5 oblong, obtuse, u}) to 2 lines long, purj)lish or Hght brown, rigid, 
loosely 5 to y -flowered ; rhachilla disarticulating. 
Glumes subecjual, oblong-lanceolate, acute, about ^ line long, strongly keeled, 
keel scaberulous ; valves oblong in profile, obtuse, f line long, rigidly membranous, 
side nerves very proniinent, keel scaberulous above. Pales subequal t(^ the valves, 
and falling with them, keels scabrid above. Stamens 3 ; anthers § line long ; 
grain oblong-ellipsoid, 5 to ^ line long, brown, smootli. 
iTa&i^at ; Natal. Without precise locality, (ieivard G80 ; near Dundee, 
4000 feet alt., W. K. (Irccii. !)5, 96 {Wood 7451)." 
Drawn from Green's specimens, the only Natal one in the Herbarium. 
Fi(y 1, Lower glume : 2, upper glume : 3, valve : 4. pale : .3, pistil, stamens nud lodicule^, 
All fuliirgcd. 
