The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey.

  • William H. Harvey
Date:
1868
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Credit: The genera of South African plants : arranged according to the natural system / by William Henry Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drical, spike-like panicle. Grlumes thin and delicate ; the two onter clothed with very long, silky hairs ; the third smaller, glabrous, empty; the flowering glume and palea still shorter, broad, entire or toothed. Stamens 2. Stigmas long and narrow, plumose, reddish. Grrain free, enclosed in the glumes. —Nces, l.c. p. 88 ; Benth. FI. Fonglc. p. 419. I. arundinacen, Cjr., a common grass of warm countries, occurs on (ho Eastern frontier and at Natal. 17. ERIOCHRYSIS, Beauv. Spikelets in pairs (the terminal in threes), 1-flowered, along the jointed branches of a much-divided panicle ; 1 sessile, the other pedicellate, both fertile. Outer glumes 2, rigid, boat- sha])cd, nerved, ])ointless, nearly cq\;al. Flowering glume and palea very thin and tra7is])arcnt, pointless; the glume longer and broader than the palea, concave, ciliate. G-rain free.— Kunth, Fnum. i. p. 473. » TH. pallida, Munro, found at Magalisbcrg by Eurke and Zeybor, is a rigid grass, with involute leaves, and a culm about 2 feet high, bearing a close panicle, clothed with long silky, fulvous hairs, a whorl of wliich surrounds every joint of tlie racliis, forming an involucre to each spikelet. 18. EULALIA, Trin. Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, both pedicellate, along the slender, unjointed branches of a diffuse panicle, each spikelet girt at base with rufous hairs. Outer glumes 2, rigid, papery, pointless, villous, the lower 2-nerved; third glume also em])ty, thinner. Flowering glume very narroAV, 2-fid, ending in a long awn ; palea very small and narrow. Grrain free.—Eriauthus, Fees, l.c.p. 92. Tall, rigid grasses, 3-4 feet high (like small reeds), with convolute leaves; the culm bearing a large, much-branched, softly haii-y, fulvous panicle. —3 Cape species. 19. POLLINIA, Trin. Spikelets 1-flowered, in pairs, 1 sessile, the other pedicellate along the spike-like branches of a simple panicle ; the rachis jointed at each pair, each spikelet surrounded by silky hairs. 2 outer empty glumes, stiff, awnless; the lowest Avith 2 of the lateral nerves prominent, the central faint; second glume keeled, stiff; third also empty, smaller, thin and transparpnt; flowering glume small and thin, Avith a long aAAOi, twisted at base. Grrain free.—Benth. FI. Ilongk. p.‘^20 •, Eulalia, iVees, l.c. p. 90. P. villosa, Munro {Eulalia villosa, Nees), a rather coarse grass, 1-2 feet high; the culm bearing 3-4 hairy, fidvous, awned spikes, is comrnon on and beyond the Eastern frontier.—There are 3 or 4 otlicr Cape species.