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Andropogon. | GRAMINEE (Stapf). 345 
The typical form which has glabrous nodes and shorter, finer awns, ranges 
from Central and South Europe to Eastern Asia 
11. A. pertusus (Willd. Spec. Plant. iv. 922); perennial; culms 
erect or ascending from the branched often prostrate base, simple above, 
1-2} ft. long, glabrous, 5-6-noded ; sheaths rather ee except the 
compressed lower ones, usually bearded at the nodes; ligules trun- 
cate, up to 1 lin. long, often with hairs from behind ; “asian linear, 
tapering to a fine point, 2-6 in. by 1-2 lin,, flat, glabrous or more 
or less hairy, scabrid ; racemes digitate, rarely more distant on a 
common rhachis not longer than the lowest racemes, about 2 in. lon 
peduncles usually glabrous except their bearded axils, short, jo oints 
and pedicels equalling 3 of the spikelet or slightly longer, ciliate, 
a) 
usually 33 not or shallowly pitted, purplish. Beauv. Agrost. 131, 
t. 23, fig. 2; Kunth, -_- i. 498; St = Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 364 ; 
Hack. Androp. in DC. M. nog? Pica: . 479; Durand & Schine, 
Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 718; oe Sf. Fi. Brit. Ind. vii. 173. 
Var. B ips B reg lic. ytd 3 Dec up to 4 ft. long; blades 4~12 in. by 
2-32 lin. o 20; r glume of sessile spikelets rather firm 
wy oma or ry pote ie, Fo shinier, 2-24 lin, tong 3 age spikelets 
Noa Ot 2-3-pit seit Dura dy Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. ¥. A. pertusus, 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 107. 
pa peta Var. 8, Komgha Div. ; banks of the Kei River, Drege! 
EAsrTeERN ReGion: Natal; without precise en , Gerra oe be Var. £, 
Natal ; at the foot of Table Mountain, near Pieter tzburg, Kra 29! Umpu- 
mulo, Buchanan, 190! 295 partly! and without ae locality, Buchowhe, 201 ! 
Th cies of which Hackel distinguishes 8 varieties, for the greatest part 
pee nightly differing, ranges all over Africa and tropical Asia to North 
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truneate, often with hairs from behind; blades linear, tapering to a 
long fine point, 4-30 in. long by 13-4 lin,, rather rigid, glabrous or 
sometimes hispid at the base, usually smooth except the margins ; 
panicle compound, oblong, dense, 4-7 long, ere: purplish, 
common rhachis 2—5 in, “Jong, ee like ¢ hort peduncles 
glabrous except for the hear ed axils; racemes Pint often flexuous, 
