PLATE 489. 
DiPL.ACHXE Eleusine, Nees. (Fl. C^^., Vol. VIL, p. 591). 
Nat. Order Gramineas. 
Perenn]AT>, glulirous. Culms tufted. 1 to 2 feet long, ^eniculately ascending, 
terete, suiootli, simple or branched below, 3-noded, internodes exserted ; sheaths 
rather tiglit and firm, smooth, tlie lower keeled ; ligules membranous, very short, 
truncate, denticulate, ciliate ; blades linear, tapering to a fine point, 4 to 9 inches, 
l)y 1 to 2 lines, more or less flaccid, scabrid on l)oth sides or rather smootli below. 
Panicle narrow, consisting of '2 to 8 erect, distant sj)ikes or spike like 
racemes ; rhachis angulai-, finely scaberulous oi- almost smooth : branches 1 to 4 
inches lon^. flexuous. 
Spikelets unilateral, imbricate or U-seriate, subsessile, 2 to 3-lines long, 5 to 
8-flowerefl, liglit green. 
Gli'mes lanceolate in profile, obtuse or subacute, 1^ and line long respec- 
ti\elv. Avhitish, keel gieen. Valves oblong, very obtuse, entire, up to ^ line long, 
ti[)s broad, h valine, side-nerves finely silkv, evanescent below the tips. Pales 
obtuse. Anthers not (piite line long : gi-am ehiptic. flat, 'j to 4 line by h line. 
Habitat: Nat.M-. Hanks of Tugela Pdver, 700 feet alt. Ihu'liaiudi 207. 
Drawn from Buchanan's specimen, the onlv one in the Herbarium. 
Valves H line long, not ^ line as (pioted in the Flora (Japensis. 
Fiy 1, lower ii'luiiic : 2, upjicr glume ; 3. valve j 4, pale ; pistil, stamens and lodicules ; 
6, spikelet. All cnUnuinl. 
