Andropogon. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 541 
OUTH AFRICA: Espa on ge Zeyher, —— ! 292! 
gegelets REG range Free State; Drakens Berg Range, near Harri- 
smith, Buchanan, 120! near "Thaba tevin. Burke, 434! Basutoland; Leribe, 
Buchana 144! 
Baste Region: Natal; Umpumulo, 2000-2500 ft., Buchanan, 195! Riet 
Vie 00-6000 ft., Buchanan, 193! 196! and without precise locality, 
Hadheitiain, 116 partl y! 
The species was described from specimens collected by Schimper in Abyssinia 
I have not se sae them ; but Schweinfurth’s and Barter’s specimens from Central 
mie and the Niger, ‘which Hacke (Andr. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 452) refers 
represent a muc Moen er and stouter plant, Nhe a height of 10 ft. and 
fet leaves 3-7 lin. broad and very long, and racemes up to 6 in. long, whilst the 
calli of hen spike are pageant shorter and more ahaa, and the anthers up to 
2 lin uother form, intermediate between this robust state and var. 
wate es occurs in East Africa from the Zambesi to Usambara. 
. A. Schinzii (Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 458) ; 
pere nnial ; culms erect, slender, 2-4 ns ae glabrous, 7 
impl 
2-Llin. long ; blades linear from a slightly narrower base, long taper- 
Ing to a fine point 4-8 in. by 2-32 lin., flat, rigid, —s turning 
and pedicels equal or aut ae and similar, cuneate-linear, zal lin. 
ong, glabrous, callus short, cbt, eet wae pets in athe 
branous, boat-shaped, 3-nerved, with a te rminal bristle about as long 
linear-lanceolate, acute, 3} lin. long, purplish or reddish ; lower glume 
sige aceous, minutely Béoothed with an interposed biiatle of ‘about 
er glume lanceolate, 3-nerved, ciliolate, aristulate like the lower ; 
valves oblong-linear, acute or mucronulate, 3-nerved; lower finely 
2-keeled, keels rigidly ciliate ; upper long and -sofly ciliate, muti- 
cous. Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 721 
