PLATE 470. 
DlGlTAKIA FLACCIDA, Stiipf. (FI. Cap., \o\. Yll. p. 382). 
Xat. Oi'diT (!raminea\ 
Culms xwy slender, over 1 foot long ; uppermost sheath long, narrow, with a 
radimentarv blade, glabrous. Kacemes simple or compound belou', silky \'illous, o to 
7 lines long, on the slender branches of a narrow, tlaccid, scantily branched panicle, 
2 to o inches long ; rhachis finely filiform, triquetrous, smooth, internodes f to 1^ 
lint' long. 
SnivKLKTs :^-nate oi* the lowest on o-4 spiculate short branchlets, oblong, sub- 
acute, "2 to 1| line long, une(|U!dly pedicelled, ])edice]s finely filiform, smooth and 
glabrous or with very few rigid hairs near the discoid ti{)S. 
Glumes, la/rer delicately hyaline, o^•ate, obtuse, up to ^ line long, nerveless, 
glabrous or scantily hairy ; vj/jin- lanceolate-oblong, subacute, f line long, o-nerved, 
denselv and long villous, margins delicately hyaline, rather broad. \'ah'es, lo/rer obh^ng, 
subacute, \^ to almost:^ lines long, 7-nerved, glabrous along the middle nerve, densely 
villous on the sides, particularly along the upper edge of the inflexed margins, hairs 
acute, somewhat rigid, often purplish, exceeding the valve ; upper subchartaceous, 
oblong, acuminate, up to 1^^ line long. 
Hclbitdt : Xatal. Umsinga and base of Biggarsberg, B/irhaitan (S8. 
This species is remarkable for having two short, nerved, cuneate lodicules in the 
lower Horet, although the pale itself is extremely reduced and scarcely exceeds them. 
I do not know any other similar case in the genus. — (Xote by Dr. Stapf). 
No specimen of this grass was in our Herbarium, but the Director of the Iloyal 
Gardens at Ivew kindly alloAved a draw ing of it to be made by Miss Smith, which our 
a^'tist, Miss Franks, has copied. 
Flo^ 1, Rliachis and spikelets : 2, ii])per glume ; 3, lower valve : 4, pale and lodicules ; 5, 
iip^)er glume aiul pale ; (i, jjistil and lodicules. A// ciildrf/cd. 
