PLATE 499. 
AxDuoPoGux ScHLECHTERi, Hackel. (Bull., Herb., Boissier, Xo. 9, I'JUG). 
Nat. Order Graminea'. 
Perexniai.. innovation shoots intravajiinal. Culms erect, slender, about 12 
inehes hiu'h, subeoni])resse(l, o to 4-noded, branching from the 2 or o up])er nodes, 
branches solitary or in pairs, very slender, lower elongate, upper short, all tloriferous. 
Sheaths much shorter than the internodes of the culm, subcompressed. rather lax and 
glibrous at the nodes, the upper or two upj^er spathiforin, 9 to 14 lines long, leafless, 
becoming rufous, the lower 6 or 8 densely crowded at the base of the culm, equitant 
below, above flabellate, subcompressed, glabrous, rigid, becoming fuscous with age ; 
ligule very short, membranaceous, arcuate ; blade linear from an equal base, acute, 
plane or those of the innovation shoots subcon^'olute, the lowest elongate (to <S inches 
long), the upper nuich shorter, all erect, rigid, green or becoming bluish purple, the 
basal pilose aljo\ e, the others glabrous, finely nerved. Racemes solitary at the ends 
of the culms and branches, the base of the slender glabrous ])eduncle included in the 
sheath, subtended by and often overtopping (rarely shorter than) the spathe, erect, 
5 to 9 lines long, 1^ to Klines broad, densely floAvered ; rhachilla joints straight, more 
than twice shorter than the spikelets, slender, glal>rous, subcupulate at apex. 
Sessile spikelets lineardanceolate, 2 to 2^ line long, turning violet blue, glabrous. 
Lower glmue chartaceous-membranaceous, lineardanceolate, acute, subentire or minutely 
bi-denticulate, margins inflexed, 2-nerved, 2-keeled. smooth, plane ; callus very short, 
obtuse, glabrous ; upper glume subequalling the lower, lanceolate, acuminate, 
niucronulite 1 -nerved, keeled, glabrous. Lower valve a h'ttle shorter than lower 
glume, hm'ai'-ol)long, ol)tuse or acute, hyaline, nerveless, glabrous ; upper valve a 
([uarter shorter than the upper glume, lineardanceolate, acute, muticous, hyaline, 
nerveless, glabrous ; pale U. Lodicules cuneate. Anthers very minute Avithout pollen. 
Stigma shortly |)lumose. 
FediceUed spikelet male. |)edicel sliorter than the joint, lanceolate, 2-2j lines 
long, glabrous. Lower glume lanceolate, acute, 9-nerved, upper ghnne equalling the 
lower, acuminate. .")-ncr\'c(l ; lower and 'ipjter valves subequalling the lower ghnne. 
lanceolate, acute. l-iici'\-cd. hyaline ; anthers 1 line long. 
Eahitat : Xatal. In damp places, Clairmont, 20 feet alt., Sehlechter 3143; 
Jvrantzkloof, Sehlechter 3209 ; Clairmont, 20 feet alt., Wood 8543, September. 
Fig 1, Raceme. Sessile spikelet — 2, Lower glume; 3, upper ghnne; 4, lower valve; 
5, upper valve ; 6, pistil, stamens and lodicules. FediceUed spikelet — 7, Lower glume ; 8, 
upper glume ; 9, lower valve : 10, upper valve ; 11, stfimeus and lodicules. All enlarged, 
