PLATE 487. 
Spokobolus fungens, Kuiitli. (Fl. Cap., Vol. VII., ]i. r)S7). 
Xat. ( )r(l('i- < irainiiieu'. 
Perennial ; rhizome ot'ten long creeping, stoloniferons, stolons emitting 
fascicled or solitary ascending culms, these 2 to 12 inches long, glabrous, ver}' man}-- 
noded, sheathed nearly all along, internodes alternately very short and long, hence the 
leaves appear opposite ; cuhn-sheatlis rather tight, slightly compressed, glabrous or 
sometimes ciliate along the margins and bearded at the mouth, smooth ; ligule a 
ciliate rim ; blades subulate-in^olnte, often ])ungent, rarely flat towards the base, 
from ^ to 4 inches long, rigid, firm, closely and strongly nerved, glabrous or scantih' 
longdiair}- above, margins scaberulous. 
Panicle spikedike, cylindric, compact, rarely somewliat loosened, i to 3 inches 
long ; branches short, branched from the base, scaberulous ; pedicels very short. 
Spikelets light to dark olive-green, 1 to 1^ line long. 
(jrLUMES lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keels acute, scaberulous a!)ove, the /o/rrr 
equalling ^ to ^ of the upper, the latter as long as the valve or slightly longer and 
like it 1-nerved ; pale slightly shorter. Stamens 8 ; anthers | to 1 line long, (iraiu 
elli];)Soid, § line long, light brown, pericarp thin. 
Hclbitat : Natal. At the moutli of the Umzimkulu Ki\ er, Prege : sand dunes 
around Durljan I)a^^ Kraiiss 67. 
Drawn from Krauss's specimen, kindly lent for the purpose b\- the Director of 
the R(^yal Gardens and Herbarium at Kew. 
" A very variable littoral ])lant of most Avarm countries. The specimens from 
Bathurst Division and from Xatal are rather different in haljit from the \\"estern, 
approaching the form common in the Mediterranean region, wliicli oi'iginalh' was 
understood under S. pujii/eiis.^'' 
Fig- 1. Lower plume : '2, ii}>})('r glume ; 3, ralve : 4, pale : 5. pistil, staineus and lodieules. 
All euldrged. 
