338 GRAMINER (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
glabrous or hairy to villous, shorter than the internodes; ligules 
very short, rounded; blades linear, tapering to an cute oint, 
2-6 in. by 1-2 lin., ‘flat, erect, somewhat firm, glabrous or hairy, 
turning red, midrib white : spathes boat-shaped, acuminate, 8-14 in. 
yellowish-green or brown, hairy or glabrous and shite on the back, 
the sessile 11—2 lin. long ; lower glume chartaceous, narrowly truncate, 
intracarinal nerves 2, evanescent below ; upper glume membranous 
ume Ones, nerves pees ate Socios ues valve 
Soaeiad, ciliate ; upper very narrow, linear, nerveless, awnless ; 
ee 0. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 383; Hack. in Hook. Icon. Pi. 
870; Hack. Androp. in DC. Mosca Phan. vi. 398 
SoutH AFRICA: without Pen Drége, 4263 
Katanart ReGion: Orange e State, ee 3373! Transvaal; 
summit of Houtbosch Berg, tien, 25*! Makapans Bergen at Streyd Poort, 
Rehmann, 5382! J igre.) HS.C.A, Herb., 308 | 
iy Pondo wait between St. Johns River and Umtsikaba 
ver, Drége! Griqualand East ; Mount Pum ree? er ae 3500 ft., 
Tus yson, 3088! Mise “ 3 coast ne Sutherland ear Umpumulo, 
2000 ft., Buc , 225! Riet Noe 6000 ft., lene. 224 and withou t 
precise ect Plant, 60! Gerrard, 676. 
In the typical aie extending ree Zambesi, and in more or less distinct 
varieties a ean tr ceed Afri 
Subge . ART ous k.). 
ey prea or paula, besa partly ssi, pactly pedune ped from spat thi- 
4-6, 
form sheaths ; cae umerou ely ancipitous opaque (confer A. distachyus) 
tips often appendag Spikelets of each pair f eeidnhcant, ar the sessile generally 
a alike, 3, arog awned. Lower glume 2-keeled; upper lanceolate the 
uth African species) or oblong, keeled, Lower valve hyaline, as long as or 
sight shorter than the glumes, linear to oblong ; ai ge elvares oblong or iment, 
hoa y bifid and awned (in the South African rarely muticous. 
ns 3 (in the South African species) to 1, Pedicellod pie ir g or reduced 
a haee: or suppressed, very rarely 3. 
3. A. eucomus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 104); perennial, densely 
tufted, pS 1-3 ft. long, glabrous, 4—6- or more-node d, simple to 
by 1 
( ante. g glabrous or hairy, pale green ; air linear, se setaceou usly 
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