284 Beitrage xur Flora von Afrika. XLVI. 



Sell, exile (Hochst.) Pilger [Aiidropogon exilis Hochst.). 



Var. plurispicatum Pilger [A. exilis var. plurispicahis Pilger in 

 Englers Bot. Jahrb. LL (1914) 412. 



Die Art muC zur Gattung Schixachyrium Nees iibergefiihrt werd'en. 



Anadelphia Hack. 



A. leptocoma (Trin.) Pilger [AnadelpJna virgata Hack, in Englers 

 Bot. Jahrb. VI. (1885) 240; Andropogon tenuifloriis Stapf in Journ. de 

 Bot. XIX. (1905) -103 sec. descr. 



Westafrikanische Waldprovinz — Liberia: Grand Bassa, Fish- 

 town, feuchtere offene Stellen des sandigen Vorlandes, ca. 3 m u. M, 

 (DiNKLAGE n. 1770. — 1896); Grand Bassa, Kampine des sandigen Vor- 

 landes, sehr haufig; bis niannshohes Gras (Dinklagk n. 2303. — 1908); 

 River Cess, niedriger Busch des Sandlandes zwischen FluB und Meer^ 

 2 m li. M. (DiNKLAGE n. 2312, — 1908). 



Andropogon l. 



A. flabellifer Pilger n. sp. — Perennis, innovationibus intravagi- 

 nalibus, vaginis elongatis, valde plicato-compressis, circa basin culnii dense 

 aggregatis superpositis, quasi flabelliformi-dispositis; cYilmo modice elato, 

 2-nodo; lamina foliorum culmeorum superiorum valde abbreviata. FoUoruin 

 lamina lineariSj secus medianum bene plicato-compressa, apice breviter 

 contracta, acutala , basi circ. aequilata in vaginam transiens , it longe 

 hirsuto-inspersa vel demiim glabrata^ vagina aeque i hii-suta vel hirsuto- 

 inspersa, ore plerumque densius hirsuta, ligula subnulla. Inflorescentia 

 terminalis paniciformisj ambitu ovaliSj rami racemiformes vel inferiores 

 iterum parmn divisi^ inferiores per paria, plerumque alter sessilis, alter 

 pedicellatuSj rarius ambo pedicellatij superiores saepius singuli; rhachis el 

 rami tenues angulati, longe hirsuto-villosi; internodia rhacheos racemorum 

 angusta, superne parum dilatata, Y3 — ^4 spicularum aequantia, marginibus 

 et imprimis ad basin spicularum albo-hirsuta, ibique incrassata, inter mar- 

 gines tenuiora, quasi sulcata; spiculae dr violascentes; spiculae sessilis 

 gluma prima lanceolato-ovata, dorso latiuscule sulcata^ margine late vel 

 angustius involutaj parte mediana enervis, nervi laterales 4j quorum 2 

 imprimis superne magis prominentes in apiculos excurrentes, scabri; se- 

 cunda plicata, expansa lanceolato-ovata, 3-nervia3 medianus in aristulam 

 tertiam glumae partem vel parum supra aequantem excurrens; tertia tenera, 

 nervi baud conspicui; quarta parva, tenera, breviter bifida, inter lobos 

 arislata, arista circ, ad medium geniculata; flos Q, stamina in staminodia 

 parva reducla; pedicellus spiculae pedicellatae rhacheos articulum simulans, 

 parum brevior; spicula magna, q^, acute acutata; glumae 3; prima iHi 

 spiculae sessiUs similis, sed hand sulcata, medlano percurrente instructa, 



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