PLATE 484. 
Aristida coxgesta. lioeiii i.^ Schult. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII.. p. 558). 
Nat. ()rder Gramineffi. 
Pkkenmai.. tufted, light green or glaucous, glabrous. 
Culms slender, rather wirv, erect or geniculately ascending, compressed below. 
;^ to 2 feet long, simple or branched from some of the lower' nodes, 3 to 4-noded ; 
sheaths tight, smooth : blades usually vcrv narrow, linear, acute. 1 to 6 inches by 1 
line, i-arely larger, usually folded or convolute, rigid, curved, rarely flat, smooth 
below, scabrid to hisj)idulous abo\'e. 
Panicle spike-like, often interrupted, with 1 to 2 shortly pe.iuncled, more or 
less spreading latei-al. pseudo-spikes, '2 to (i inches long : pedicels \-ei-v short. 
Spikelets densely crowded, 8 J to 4 lines, rarely uj) to 5 lines long. 
( iLL'MEs keeled, keels smooth or almost so, the lairer lanceolate, graduallv passing 
into a long mucro, o lines long, the nj)per linear, emarginate, long nuicronate, o.', to 
5 lines long. Valve linear, ]>roduced into a short twisted beak, usuallv slightly 
shorter than the upper glume, minutely scaberulous above ; callus ^ line long ; awns 
jointed with the valves, but not disarticulating, diverging, fine, 5 to 7 lines long ; 
pale not i|iiite ^ line long, nerveless or almost so ; lodicules ^ to § line long, 5 to 
6-ner\ed. Anthers | line long ; grain up to If line long, deeplv grooved. 
Habitat: Natal. BucIudkih 124. 
Also in Cape Colony and Basutoland. 
Drawn from Buchanan's 1:^4, kindly lent foi' the ])urp()se i)v the Director of the 
Royal Gardens and Herbarium at Kew. 
Fig 1. Lower glume : 2, upper ghinu : 3, valve, iVout view ; 4, pale ; 5, pistil, stamens 
and lodicules. All enlarged. 
