PLATE 486. 
Sp( )K0B()LU8 yiMBKlATUS. Xees. (Fl. Cap.. \'ol. p. 585). 
Xat. ( )rde]' ( rraiiiiueit'. 
Perennial, densely tufted. Culms usually geniculate, 2 to 8 feet long, smooth, 
glabrous, 2 to 4-noded ; sheaths glabrous except the sometimes ciliate or fimbriate 
margins, smooth, firm, the lowest pallid, more or less compressed and subcarinate : 
ligule a ciliate rim ; blades linear, tapering to a long setaceous point, 5 to 10 inches 
by 1 to i:^ lines, flat or folded with the margins rolled in, giaV)rous, rarely with long- 
fine spreading hairs near the base, smooth or scaberulous. 
Panicle erect, subflexuous or nodding, <S to 12 inches by I to 2 inches (when 
open) ; l)ranches solitary, irregularly crowded. 1 to 3 inches long, fiat, at length more 
or less s])reading, filiform, repeatedly branched from the base, lower secondary 
branchlets up to 1) lines long, smooth or almost so ; lateral pedicels very short. 
Spikelets greyish -green, ^ to 1 line long, cro\vded or rather lax. 
(iLUMES unequal, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the lower hyaline, equalling 
about ^ the length of the spikelet, tiie upper as long as the yalve or slightly longer, 
1 -nerved ; valve ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1 nerved. Stamens 3 ; anthers 
^ line long. Grain obovoid, truncate, quadrangular, very slightly compressed, f line 
long : pericarp delicate. 
Hdhita^t : Xatal. Near Durban, below 500 feet alt., Drege ; and without precise 
locality, Gerrard 602. 
As we had no specimen of this grass in the Herbarium the drawing was made 
from a specimen kindly lent from the collection of Dr. H. Bolus, Capetown. The 
specimen was gathered on a stony hillside near Graaff-Reinet in April. 1867, and is 
Bolus 555. 
Fig 1, Spikelets; 2, Lower glume; 3, upper glume: 4, valve; 5, pale; 6, stamens; 
7, iodicules and pistil. All enlarged. 
