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Tropica, ArricA. Angola; Malange District, Gossweiler, 807. 
Rhodesia: Livingstone, Craster, 33; islands in the Zambesi, near 
Victoria Falls, Gibbs (original) ; Rogers, 5315. 
Five species referable to Miscanthidium have been described so 
far, M. capense, M. Sorghum and M. junceum under Erianthus (see 
Flora Capensis, vol. vi. p. 322), M. teretifolium, which may be accepted 
as the standard species or type, and M. Gossweilert under Miscan- 
thidium (see Flora of Tropical Africa, vol. ix, part i. p. 89). MM. capense 
and M. Sorghum have also been referred to Saccharum by Steudel, 
and the former to Miscanthus by Andersson, whilst M. Gossweileri 
was originally described by Hackel as a species of Cleistachne. In 
ackel’s Monograph of the Andropogoneae only M. capense and 
M. Sorghum are accounted for. There they form a small group of 
Erianthus characterised by the tough axes of the panicle and the 
presence of a ‘‘perfect’’ awn. Circumscribed as above, Miscan- 
thidium agrees more closely with Miscanthus than Frianthus. Com- 
0 
M. junceum, Stapf, from Rhodesia, has been selected to represent 
the arrangement and structure of the basal leaves, which are very 
similar in both species—O. Srapr. 
Fic. 1, pair of spikelets ; 2, part of raceme, showing joints and pedicels after 
the fall of the spikelets ; 3, lower glume ; 4, upper glume ; 5, valve of lower floret ; 
6, valve of fertile floret ; 7, young flower with the valvule in front of the ovary. 
All enlarged. 
