PLATE 496. 
AXDROPOGUX TRAXSVAALEXSIS. Sta|)t'. (Fl. (Alp.. WA. YIL. ]). 363). 
Nat. Order Gramiuea^ 
Peuexxia]., tut'tL'il. — Culms erect, jsubi^ciiieLilate, siinplc. slender, over 3 feet 
long, terete, glabrons, 5-noded beloAv the panicle ; sheaths tight, glabrous, the lotver 
tirm, short, persistent, keeled above, fugaciously and adpressedly hairy, the upper 
much shorter than the interiiodes ; lignles membranous, rounded, up to 1 line long ; 
blades narrow, linear, tapering to a long setaceous point, up to 1 foot, l)y 1^ line, 
hat or con\olute above, rigid, glabrous, scabrid in the u])|)ei" part. 
Panicle consisting of about 1:2 erect :2-3-nate sini])le. long filifoi-m branches 
from long nai'row s])athiform sheaths l)earing hlifonn or setaceous Ijlades ; spathes 
finely linear, acute, 2 to "2^ inches long, glabrous. re(ldisli ; connnon jjeduncles filiform, 
exserted near the ti]) of the spathe. the exserted ]:)art fiexuous, ^ to 1 inch long, 
jmbescent and beanh'cl with long tubercle-based hairs, dai'k purple, liacemes con- 
tiguous, () to 8 lines long, one sessile, the other on a fugaciouslv hairv purple 
])eduncle, joints filib)riii. obli(jUe]\- ri'uncate. 1^ line long, dark purple, denselv ciliate 
with rigid white hairs ; pedicel \-ei'\- similar, usuallv })roduced into a fine subulate 
membranous appendage, facing the upper gliuue. 
Spikelets, sessile ones '2 to 1 in each raceme. ])erfect with the exception of the 
lowest, which is male like the pedieelled ; j)erfeet spikelets linear-oblong, lines long. 
pnr])le, liaii'v, callus acute, beai'ded, u]) to ^ line long. 
(Jltmes, /o/r^'y subeliartaceous. truncate, dorsalh' Hattened. sometimes shalloAvly 
pitted, intracarinal ner\ es ."), prominent aliove almost throughout or e\ anescent below, 
hairs scattered all over or mainlv neai* up])ei' margins ; tippci- ()l)tuse, 3-nerved, hairv 
above ; loicer vnh'c almost e(pialliiig the glumes, linear. t)btuse, sub-:2-nerved, scantilv 
ciliate ; upper shoi'tly 2-lol)ed, ciliate, 3-uerved near the base, awii about 1 inch long, 
slender, ])ubescent and kneed below the middle ; pale 0 ; male spikelets narrowlv 
lanceolate, u]) to 3-3^ lines long, mutieous, hairy or loAvest glabrous, 7-l)-nerved, 
keels scantih" and rigidl\' ciliate above ; upper acute, hairv or glabrous, long ciliate : 
N'alves almost (Mpialling the glumes, ciliate. lower 3, upjier l-nerA'e<l. 
I ntei'mediate between A . J)i'e(/c<(ii us and A. fih peri(hil us. 
Habitat: Xatal. Dundee, ir. A'. (^recH 8.S, March, 1891). 4(M)()-.')(M)0 feet alt. 
(Government Herbarium 8107) ; same loealitx'. (I'reeu .")(). December. 18!I8 (Govern- 
ment Herbarium 81^0). 
Fig 1, S])ikelt't&. Scssl/c spi/(r/('t.^ — 2, Lowei' glume : .3. Tip]ier glume : 4, lower valve : .5, 
pale ; 6. ovarj and lodieiiles : 7, u|)per valve Avitli base of a\vi). Pidiccllrd spikelets — 8, 
Lower gliiiiie : !J, iipjier glume ; 10, lower valve ; 1 1 , upper valve. All enlanitd. 
