Andropogon. | GRAMINE# (Stapf). 839 
acuminate, 2 in. long, glabrous, usually exeeeding the filiform 
glabrous peduncle ; racemes 2~4-nate, 1-12 in. long, very slender, 
flexuous, suberect or nodding, silvery plumose, joints filiform, shorter 
than the spikelets, silky with soft long (about 5 lin.) hairs ; pedicels 
similar, exceeding the spikelets, barren ; spikelets lanceolate- oblong, 
1-12 lin. long 
upper l-nerved; lower valve nerveless, ciliate; upper lanceolate- 
oblong, lobes very fine, awn a fine bristle, 6-9 lin, long; pale very 
minute ; anthers } lin. long; grain over + lin. long. Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Gum. i. 390 ; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 176; Hack. Andr. in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 421; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 
“3 711. Hriopodium Kraussii, Hochst. ex Krauss in Flora, 1846, 
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oAST REGION: _Clanwilliam etd 3 eas River, Zeyher ! Wupperthal, 
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Mountains, by the Berg River, below 500 ft., Dr a4 ? haces bm 
loof, on wet rocks, 900 ft., MacOwan, 1691! Tulbagh Div.; near Ceres Road 
Sa Schlechter, 288 ! Port Elizabeth Div. ; Port Eliz: abeth, E.8.C.A. Herb., 
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Burchell, 2102! Mesdiniasns Hamaper, a near Kuruman, Burchell, 2523! 
Transvaal ; be: River, near ‘Mantatus Kraal, Nelson, 87*! Houtbosch, 
es ales Natal ; abundant on og coast one common at 1000 ft., 
rein 211! Durban Plat, Buchan 26! _ r Dur ban, Wood, 1654! 
M‘Ken, 126! between Umlazi River and aden Be ey Krauss, 163! ‘by the 
Umlazi River, Drége ! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 
4. A. appendiculatus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. oer ; ei 
densely tufted ; culms erect, 2-3 ft. long, glabrous, ca oe sed o 
crowded near the base; sheaths ca . iaecd at the mouth, 
lower very firm, strongly i apr keeled, persistent, upper shorter 
th the internodes, ight, uppermost subspathaceous ; ligules 
tecniliiinsiel very nae “truncate, ciliolate; blades linear, acute, 
usually folded, lower 4— 12 in. by 1-23 lin. (unfolded), uppermost 
eoriaceous to ¢ artaceous, lie ous, lower acute or spumioate, 
dorsally concave, keels acute, seabrid, or rigidly ciliate, callus scantily 
bearded 3 upper glume boat-shape , 1-nerv ed; lower valve oblong- 
laneeolate, faintly 2- sian, softly sata upper valve 2 lin, long, bifid 
to 3,.1-nerved, lobes s very. narrow, ciliate, awn 5-7 lin., kneed b below 
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