PLATE 466. 
Andropogon pertusus, Willd. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII., p. 345). 
Nat. Older Graminejie. 
Perennial. — Culms erect or ascending from the branched often prostrate 
base, simple above, 1 to 2^ feet long, glabrous, 5-6-noded ; sheaths rather terete, 
except the compressed lower ones, usually bearded at the nodes ; ligules truncate, 
up to ^ line long, often with hairs from behind. Blades linear, tapering to a line 
point, 2 to 6 inches by 1 to 2 lines, Mat, glabi"ous or more or less hairy, scabrid. 
Racemes digitate, rarely more distant on a common rhachis not longer than the 
lowest raceme, about 2 inches long ; })eduncles usually glabrous except their bearded 
axils, short, joints and })edicels e(|ualling half the spikelet or slightly longer, ciliate, 
upper cilia as long as the joint. 
Ses-'^ile spikelets about 2 lines long, lanceolate-oblong, pale, callus bearded. 
Glumes, lower subchartaceous, minutely truncate, villous near the base, 
fjiintly 5 to 9-nerved, })itte(l on the back, keels spinulously ciliate above ; upper 
acute, sj)arsely ciliate or glabrous, 3-nerved. Valves, lower t)blong, obtuse; tipper 
almost reduced to a kneed awn, G to 10 lines long. 
Pedicelled spikelets usually male, not or shallowly pitted, purplish, 
Var. capensis, Hack. — Culms up to 4 feet long; blades 4 to 12 inches, by 2 
to 3^ lines ; racemes few to 20 ; lower glume of sessile spikelets rather firm, 
glabrous or very scantily hairy, pale, shining, 2 to 2^ lines long ; pedicelled 
spikelets usually 2-3-pitted. 
Ha,bitELt : Natal. Without precise locality, (ilerrard 692 ; rar. capensU, 
foot of Table Mountain, near Maritzburg, Krauss 29 ; Qmpumulo, BucJiarKui 190, 
295, partly ; without precise locality, Bucliamin 201 ; near Maritzburg, T. J. St. 
Ueorye (5 (Wood 7246). 
Drawn from the specimen collected by St. George. 
V'v^ 1, Portion ol' raceme, showing sessile and pedicelled spikelets. Sc.s.si/p spikelet — Fig 2, 
lower glume; ."i, up])er glinne ; 4, lower valve ; upper valve; 6, pistil, stamens and lodicules. 
Pedicelled spikelet — 7, lower glume ; 8, xipper glume ; 9, valve and stamens. All enlanjed. 
