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glabra laminam filiformem vel subcapillarem gerente inclusi. 

 Racemi 2-nati, sub spathae ore exserti, superior pedunculo 5 mm. 

 longo suffultus, 5-6 cm. longi, flavescentes ; articuli pedicellique 

 8 mm. longi, similes (nisi illi magis cuneati marginibus rectis, hi 

 vero marginibus leviter convexis), praeter basin et margines 

 breyiter barbatos ciliatosque glabri, nitiduli, apice suboblique 

 truncati, vix emarginati. Spicula sessilis inter articulum pedi- 

 cellumque sui nodi cuneata, a latere admodum compressa, 5 mm. 

 longa, glabra, callo brevissimo impresso nudo ; gluma inferior 

 lineari-lanceolata, minute truncata, dorso profunde angnste canali- 

 eulata, superne in carinis spinuloso-ciliolata, caeterum laevis, 

 chartacea, nervis 7-8, utrinque sub carinis 2 vel 3 tenuibus quorum 

 1 saepe extra-carinalis, 1 utrinque ad sulcum, apice nervo medio 

 brevissimo addito ; gluma superior cymbiformis, lata, inferiorem 

 aequans, acuta, subchartacea, lucida, carina superne asperula, 

 marginibus ciliolatis, utrinque nervo submarginali tenui ; valvae 

 hyaiinae, longe ciliatae,. inferior late oblonga, truncatula, 9 mm. 

 longa, ^-nervis. superior late oblonga, biloba, 3*5 mm. longa, arista 

 geniculata, columna pallide brunnea, 10-12 mm. longa, seta 

 aequilonga vel paulo longiore ; palea sub-bi nervis, 3 mm. longa, 

 eciiiata. Spicula pedicellata lanceolata, acutissima, 1-2-mucronata, 

 5*5 mm. longa ; gluma inferior ad flexuras angustissimas hispidula, 

 in dorso subscaberula, nervis circiter 13 quorum 5 interiores magis 

 distantes, mucrone ad 2 mm. longo ; gluma superior dorso convexa, 

 3-sub-5 -nervis, ciliolata, mucrone circa 1 mm. longo ; valvae 

 oblongae, 5 mm. longae, hyaiinae, ciliatae, acutae, inferior 2-nervis, 

 superior 3-nervis cum palea oblonga subenervi eciiiata 3 mm. 

 longa et flore $ . Antherae 3-3-5 mm. longae. 



West Africa. Togoland, Misa Hohe, Baumann, 318. 



980. Andropogon (§Arthrolophis)pinguipes, Stapf [Graminaceae],- 

 •affinis A. canaliculate, Schum., sed laminis basi longe angnste 

 attenuatis vel petiolatis, articulis pedicellisque altius convexis, 

 gluma inferiore spiculae sessilis late concava distiiictus. 



Perennis? (partes basales desunt). Oulmi extantes ad 45 cm. 

 longi, graciles, glabri, laeves, infra ramos flonferos 2-nodi. 

 Foliorum vaginae arctae, teretes, laeves, nervoso-stnatae ; hgulae 

 scariosae, truneatae, ciliolatae, ad latera ob vaginam contimiatam 

 .herbaceae, nervosae, sed hand in auriculos productae ; laminae 

 lineares, setaceo-acuminatae, basin versus longe angusteque 

 attenuatae vel petiolatae, ad 20 cm. longae, d inm. latae, planae, 

 flaccidulae, utrinque minute puberulae, rubentes ad margines et 

 nervos scabridulae, costa inferne incrassata albida ca eterumnU 

 nervis lateralibus tenui. Pauir„la spuria fohata, .5-4-nod a, rami 8 

 solitary vel panels fasciculatis ; peduncuh communes graciles, 

 apice paulo incrassati, 6-8. cm. longi, e spatba propria angu U 

 (rarius dilatata) glabra laminam brevem subulatum ^gerente breviter 

 exserta. Racemi " " ~ - : *-- «»l* ** mm - lonff0 fflabro 



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Peuicelli emarginati. Spicula sessih* intei ar ^um p 

 ^•eHumque nodi sni cuneata, a latere compressa, triquetra, 



