PLATE 428. 
Eragkostis ciUAKis Link. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VIL, p. Gi^',)). 
Nat. Order GraiiilueiL'. 
Annual or subperennial {'.) tufted. — Culms geniculate, ascending, (ifteii 
IVdiii a procuuibeiit ba.se, slender, ^ to 2 feet lon^-, glabrous, sniootli, simple or 
branched below, about o-noded, internodes exserted ; sbeatbs striate, ti^'bt, 
glabrous or scantily liairy, bearded with Ioiil;' liairs at the nioutli ; ligule a fringe 
of short liairs. t)lades linear, tapering to a tine point, 3 to (i inches by 1 to 2 lines, 
usually inx'olute, somewhat stiff and spreading, glabrous, or Asith scattered fine 
long hau's, scaberulous. 
Panicle spike-like, more or less lobed or interrupted, dense to very dense, 2 to 
G inches long; axis scabrid ; brandies adpressed, usually all very short or the 
lowest u}) to 1 inch long, divided from tlie base, })edicels very short. 
Si'iKELKTS crowded, ovate, strongly compressed, I to almost 2 lines l<»ng, 
loosely G to 12-iiowered, pallid, sometimes purplish ; rliachilla breaking up 
Glumes oblongdanceolate, acute, § to almost ^ line long, I -nerved, keel 
scabrid. Valves oblong in profile, subtruncate and niucronulate, spreading, about 
line long, thin, side-nerves jjrominent, keel scabrid. Pales equal to tlie valves 
and falling with them, keels of pale very long and rigidly ciliate. Antbers 5 to ^ 
line long. Cirain elongate-ovoid, j line long, brown. 
Edbitcit : Natal. (Jommon near tlie coast, /iuc/nfii'm IGU; margins of wdods 
near the Umlazi River, A'ranss 34"J ; near L)u]-ban, Mr Ken 124; Durban Flats, 
J)'ic/i'tii'fii ;js ; Perea, Wood 5!)2G ; between Umzimkulii and Umkoman/j Rivers, 
Drcijc 4270 ; and without precise locality, (/cnairf GUf ; Zululand, 2000 feet alt., 
Jciih-i iisDit G7, .buiuarx'. 
I )rawn from Woods iV,)2(), l)ul nol more than 2 slaiiiens were i'ound in all ihe 
florets examined Phe keel of the valve is ciliate at base in our specimens. 
" Common throughout tropical xVfrica antl America, anil in North Pidia."' 
Pig b Liiwcr gbiiiK' : "J, u|)[K'r gliiiiic; .'>, \abc : .'Sa, \ al\ c iu pruHlc ; 4, [lale : ."), pi!>lil, 
^^talllOlls and lodiculcs. All fnUirtjnl. 
