PLATE 447. 
Ehrharta calyoina, Sni. (Fl. Caj)., Vol. VII., p. 674). 
Nat. Order Grainine;e. 
Perennial, tufted, rarely stoloniferous — Culms usually geniculate, slender, 
simple or scantily branched, I to 2 feet long, smooth, glabrous, very rarely minutely 
villous below, 4 to 6-noded ; sheaths glabrous, rarely reversedly pubescent, rather 
tight : ligules very short, truncate, denticulate ciliate ; blades linear from a 
clasping often denticulate and ciliate base, long and gradually tapering or shortly 
acute, rarely subobtuse, 1 to 4 inches, by 1 to 3 lines, flaccid or rigid, flat or 
involute to setaceous, glaucous, scaberulous, glabrous or hairy, margins sometimes 
wavy, scabrid. 
Panicle very narrow, nodding, .'3 to 9 inches long, subsecund, i hachis flexuous, 
smooth ; branches in distant semiwhorls, very unecjual, the longest rarely more 
than 1 inch long, simple or scantily l)ranched, spreading or erect, subcapillary, 
flexuous, smooth. 
Spikelets pallid, rarely purplish, oblong, 2j to 3 lines long. 
Glxtmes subequal, narrow-oblong, acute or subobtuse, 7-nerved. Valves, 
empty ones unequal, loosely villous, lower very narrow, linear-oblong, acute, as 
long as the lower glume or shorter, sub-5-nerved, shortly bearded at the base in 
front, the upper oblong, obtuse, mucronate (nuicro up to \ line long), as long as 
the upper glume ov longer, 5-nerved, with 2 large semi-lunar appendages at the 
base, beardless ; fertile valve oblong, obtuse, sliglitly shorter than the up})er empty 
valve, glabrous or scantily hairy, obscurely 5 to 7-nerved ; lodicules glabrous. 
Stamens G, anthers li line long; stigmas bi'ush-like ; grain I ^ line long. 
HahitRt: Natal. Sand dimes near the mouth of the Umlazi R'wew A'rauss 
414 ; Clairmont, 50 feet alt.. Wood 7261. 
" A very polymorphic species, of wlilcli Nees distinguishes G varieties and 
several sub-varieties ; but the characters used by him are so uncertain that 1 find 
it useless to retain his subdivisions." 
Fig' 1, Lower o-lniii(> : 2, ii))p('r uliinic : 3, 1st valvo; 4, 2ik1 valve in ])i-ofile : '), fei-tile 
valve ; ti, i)alc ; 7, pistil, stamens and loilicnles. .1// m/nrt/rf/. 
