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multinervis, ecarinata, ad latera anguste involuta; superior sub- 
hyalina, 3-nervis. Valva inferior gluma superiore brevior, hyalina, 
reverse ‘ciliolata, l-nervis; superior angustissima vel 0. Antherae 
4 mm. longae, purpureae. Andropogon androphilus, Stapf in Journ. 
de Bot. vol. xix. p. 103; Cheval. Explor. Bot. Afr. Occ. Frang. 
vol. i. p. 715; Pobég. Ess. Fl. Guin. Frang. p. 217. 
TROPICAL oem French Guinea; from Fouta Djallon to 
Kouroussa, in dry . 
Elymandra is a coe and extreme modification of the Hyparrhenia 
type, with numerous spikelets, of which, however, only the sessile 
spikelet of the terminal trio is bisexual and fertile, all others being g 
or more rarely neuter ; those below the trio, being arranged i in distinctly 
separated homogamous and hom omorphous pairs, give the plant 
some resemblance to Heteropogon.—O. STapr. 
, terminal trio of spikelets, with one of the peice | ose rer removed ; 
2, fertile spikelet (back view) somewhat flattened, with adjacent pedicel ; 3, bef 1 
; 4, valve of lower floret ; 5, valve of upper Saves with h base of awn (3- 
fartile’s spikelet) ; . 6, lower r glume ; 7, upper glume; 8, lower valve (6-8 of 
, spikelet), All enlarged. 
