PLATE 482. 
Calamagrostis Huttoxi.e, Hack. (Records of the Albany Museum, \o\. I.. Ko. 5). 
Xat. Order (Tramineas. 
Culms in the upper part (which only is present in our specimens) terete, very 
glabrous, shortly exposed at apex ; sheath o£ the uppermost leaf rather loose, 
scabrid : ligule oblong, obtuse, cleft, about 3 lines long ; blade linear, acute, about 4f 
inches long, line broad, very scabrid, nerves rather thick, excurrent. 
Panicle linear-oblong, wide-spreading, rather dense, suberect, 7 to 9^ inches long, 
by 14 to 19 lines broad, rhachis scabrid, branches 6 to 8, semiverticillate, slender, 
filiform, or sub-capillary, erect, broad-spreading, very scabrid, undivided in lower half, 
then bearing many to A ery many-spiculate secondary branches. 
Spikelets equally disposed on the branches, rather close together, shortly 
pedicelled, pedicels clavate at apex, very scabrid. Spikelets lanceolate, 1^ line long, 
pale green. 
Glumes subequal (lower a very little larger), lanceolate, IJ line long, expanding 
to about J line broad, very acute, 1 -nerved, keel very aculeato- scabrid. Valve a little 
shorter than the glume (about 1 line long), oblong, obtuse, niinutelv 4-fid at apex, 
thin-membranous, o -nerved, back \'ery glabrous, covered with the long, dense hairs of 
the callus, muticous (or rareh' in upper third producing an erect aristula scarcely 
exceeding itself) ; pale subequal to the glume, oblong, rather obtuse, bidentate, 
2 -keeled, very glabrous. Anthers almost ^ Hue long. Appendage of rhachilla about 
4^Q inch long, densely bearded with hairs I line long. 
Habitat : Natal. Shafton, Howick, ^[rs. H. HutUm 384. 
In a note Professor Hackel says : With the specimen there was a single com- 
plete flowering stalk, which represents Agrostk lacJuKintha, Nees, slightly differing 
from the type. Both grasses therefore grow at the same place, and it is remarkable 
to notice that almost all characters (leaves, s])ikelets, relati\'e sizes, form and nervation 
of the glumes and valves) agree in both, the only difference is in the indument, for 
Agrostis lachiKi/ifha has at the base of the valve only short hairs, and just such hairs 
at the sides, and on the back ; it is entirely without the prolongation of the axis." 
The drawing so far as the panicle is concerned was made from the specimen 
kindly lent for the purpose by Dr. S. Schonland. and after its arriA'al it was 
noticed by the artist that our specimens, Buchanan '2S6, Mason 44, and Mason (A\"ood 
7323, partly), all classed as Agrostis lachnaiiflia were also mixed with the Calamagrostis^ 
so that the lower portion of the plant was drawn from Mason's 44. The artist. Miss 
Franks adds the following description whicli is wanting in Professor Hackle's descrip- 
tion : '"Culms erect, 2 to 3 feet high, 3 to o-noded, Ijranched from the lower nodes. 
Sheaths striate, scabrid, glabrous." 
Fig 1, A spikelet ; 2, glume : .3. valve and ealhis ; 4, valve opened ; 5, pale and rhacliilla 
appendage ; 6, pistil, stamens and lodicules^. A// enlarged. 
