PLATE 478. 
Panicum chusqueoides, Hack. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII., jJ. 100). 
Nat. Order Gramineae. 
Perennial. — Culms divaricately branched, rambling, very slender, 2 feet 
long, glabrous, many-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths very tight, terete, 
glabrous or ciliate along the margins, sometimes scantily dotted with tubercles ; 
ligules very short, truncate, obscurely ciliate ; blades spreading, linear-lanceolate 
from a broad rounded and suddenly contracted subpetiolate base, 2 to 3 inches by 
2 to 4 lines, flat, thin, very finely nerved, glabrous, smooth, margins scabrid. 
Panicle up to 5 inches long, consisting of 3 to 5 distant, suberect or 
spreading, glabrous, filiform angular branches, which are up to 2 inches long, and 
bear spikelets from 1 to 3 lines above the base ; pedicels solitary or 2-nate, unequal, 
one very short, the other up to 1^ line long, angular, smooth. 
Spikelets oblong, acute, to 1| line long, greenish, glabrous. 
Glumes, hnver hyaline above, herbaceous below, rotundate-ovate, ver}^ obtuse, 
equalling ^ to |- of the spikelet, 3- nerved ; nppey glume thinly herbaceous, oblong, 
subapiculate, 1^ to if line long, 7 to sub-9-nerved. Florets, loiver barren ; valve 
equal and very similar to the upper glume, but 5-nerved ; pale subequal ; perfect 
floret oblong, subapiculate, slightly shorter than the lower ; valve coriaceous, 
transversely wrinkled, 5-nerved, light green or yellowish ; anthers \ line long, 
ERbitSLt : Natal. Near Durban, Rehnann 8G48 ; Williamson 11. 
Our drawing was copied from one made by Miss M. Smith at Kew, and kindly 
lent to us for the purpose by the Director. It was made from Williamson's 
specimen. 
Fif? 1, Plant, natural size ; 2 spikelets ; .3, lower glume : 4, upper c^lume : o, valve and 
pale of male floret ; 6, valve of jjerfect Horet ; 7, pale ; 8, lodicules, stamens and pistil. 
Except fig I, (/// enlarged. 
