344 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
oblong, 2-fid to 2, firmer below, 3-nerved, lobes lanceolate, glabrous, awn 
slender, about 1 in. mae kneed much below the middle, scaberulous 
below thie knee ; pale minute or obsolete ; anthers 14 4. long; grain 
oblong, 1 lin. long ; pedicelled spikelets 3 similar to the sessile, about 
4 lin. long, but narrower; lower glume less acuminate and less dis- 
tinctly a ie with a short terminal bristle ; upper thinly mem- 
branous; both valves delicately hyaline, upper shortly _ bifid, 
muticous. Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. iii. 630; Host, Gram. Austr. iii. Q: 
Sibth. and Sm. Fl. Grace. i. 53, t. 69. Kunth, Enum. i. 491; pike 
Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 372; Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 
461; Durand & Schinz, ‘Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 710. Pollinia distacy, 
Spreng. Pug. Pl. Nov. ii. 12; Retchb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. 21, fig. 
KALAHARI ncemsoatin Orange Free State; on the Witte Bergen, near Harri- 
smith, ds co 263 
N REGION: ‘Natal; Newcastle, Buchanan, 179! and without precise 
ladatie, pence m, 15! 
Commou in the Mediterranean countries, also in Abyssinia and on Cameroon 
Peak. 
a nus 4. AMPHILOPHIS (Hack.). Kacemes fascicled “ at —— 3 
ts 1 to many, like the pedicels linear, flattened, chanelled, ranslucent 
ated the thie ened, fay margins; tips truncate. Spikelets ene? pair 
very similar; the e dorsally compressed, callus short. Lower glume 
2-keeled ; upper more or lanceola eled, muticous, generally 3-nerved 
Lower valve hyali yn de linear, generally passing gradu lly 
igs or almost wholly reduc n; pale O (in the th African species) 
the a i Sou 1 
r io Pedicelled ae vannils as long as the sessile, but narrower, 
or ; 
10. A. Ischemum (Linn. waaay Pl. 1047) var. erg (Hack. 
Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 476); perennial; culms erect or 
ascending from a prostrate iiathad base, 131 ft. long, oa stout, 
glabrous, 3-6-noded, simple above, or with 1-2 flowering branches 
from the uppermost nodes ; ; sheaths compressed, rather loose, bearded 
at the nodes and the mouths ; richie truncate, ciliolate ; blades linear, 
gradually tapering to a fine point, 11-3 in. by 14-2 lin., flat, rigid, 
more or less hirsute, with ro ae ae hairs, eee cari 
laginous; racemes 5-7 or more, fascicled, 1:-3 in. 
purplish, sey, shortly peduncled, joints and pedicels slightly ats 
ing half the spikelet, long ciliate; sessile spikelets < lin. long, 
keel rigidly ciliate above; lower valve oblong-lanceolate acute ; 
upper almost reduced to a kneed awn, 6-9 lin long ; anthers 
1-1} lin. long ; pedicelled ‘spikelets ¢, glabrous, awaless Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 715. A. radicans, Lehm. in Ind. Sem 
Hort. Hamb. 1828 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 499; Nees, Fi. orn ay 
106; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 380. 
Centra Recion: Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, on stony hills, 
hone ag Bolus, 518 s Somerset on ; by the Little and Great Fish Rivers, 
00 ft., Drége ! Ecklon. 
