342 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
KALAHARI REGION: Griqualand West; Hay Div. at Klip Fontein, Burchell, 
2164/2! 
Also in Amboland, German South-West Africa. 
7. A. amplectens (Nees, Fl. Afr. iri 104) ; eee Sie 
tufted ; culms erect, slender, 2-23 ft. long glabrou noded, 
simple. or with 1-3 flow ering ance from the upper roe pee es 
mostly crowded at the base ; sheaths terete, tight, glabrous, lowest 
flexuous; joints and edicels very similar, sublinear, 3 ong, 
shortly ciliate along the margins, cae hollowed, it ise ; ‘sessile 
spikelets laterally compressed, wedged in between the pedicel and 
the joint, 31—4 lin. long, glabrous, callus short, acute, bearded, sunk 
in the hollow of the preceding joint; glumes coriaceous ; lower 
Tg Nea acuminate, 2-toothed, keels rounded and broad 
below, acute seabrid near the tips, with a distinct groove (fold) 
extending between them to the acumen and with 2 fine lateral 
stout, 11-2 in. long, kneed and gen reemnae iow the middle ; 
pale linear- -oblong, 1 iin n. Rage ed aa ciliate ; anthers we lin. 
above, intrac aaa nerves many (to 9), middle nerve stronger ; 
upper Tinear-lanceolate, 3-sub-5-nerved, ciliate; valves linear 3- 
acuminate, 41 lin. long, ciliate ; upper 34 lin. oe 
9-toothed, muticous ; Lupo linear, 2 lin. long, vost Ste 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 372; Hack. Androp. in ae Monogr. Phan. vi. 
453 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 705. 
HART ReGion: Basutoland, Marloth, 1114! Transvaal; Houtbosch 
Rehmann, 5678! ae Bergen, at Streyd ade Rehmann, 5380! Drovk 
Fontein, Nelson, 76*! Apies River, Nelson, 41* 
ERN Reeron : Pebniesd near Morley y, 1000-2000 ft., Drége ! Natal ; 
Umpumulo, 2000 ft., uchanan, 194! between Umtat: iver and St. Johns 
River, 1000-2000 ft., Drége’ and without precise locality, Gerrard, 769! 
Buchanan, 116 partly ! 
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tufted ; “culms erect, slender, , 1-24 ft. long slau, terete, iach 
cate ; blades very narrow, econvolute, filiform, acute, lowest 2-1 ft. 
long, upper very short, firm, flexuous, glabrous or hairy at the base ; 
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