346 GRAMINE (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
lower glume rather thin, slightly truneate, pitted, glabrous or more or 
less hairy below the ‘middie, intraca arinal nerves faint 4-7, keels 
spinulously ciliate above, rarely smooth; upper glume acute or sub- 
acute, 3-nerved, scantily ciliate or glabrous; lower valve oblong, 
subobtuse, nerveless, glabrous; upper almost reduced to a very 
slender kneed awn 5-7 lin . long; eae hye ica do or barren, 
usually not pitted, sometimes reduced to the glumes. urand & 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 715; Hook. 7 Fi. “Brit. Ind. vii. 176. 
A. punctatus, Trin. Spec. Gram Ta t. 328; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 
i. 391, not Roxb. <A. perfossus, Nees ex Steud. iz 
ALAHARI REGION: Transvaal; Pretoria Div. at Kamel Poort, Nelson, 9! 
Lydenburg Div.; by the Komati River, Nelson, 46! 
EGION : a. ban oe = Bashee River, Drege! Griqualan 
East ; Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tuson, 3 Natal; banks of the Umlazi River, 
ége / Umpumulo, on hills, an in partly ! and without precise locality, 
Gueinzius ! 
_ Als o in t —— Africa and Asia as far as China; the typical form which differ: 
n the le mpound panicle and in lightly larger, not pitted, spikelets partie: 
thro Seton “Adittalia to Taidis a and Chin 
Subge ad we Ngeier al yn ack.). Races panicled, all peduncled ; rhachis —— 
or tough in in the cultivated varieties ; joints filiform, truncate, margins ciliat 
The spik “ey ae each pair ar or h rie morphous ; all the sessile J, dorsally 
compressed ; | glume usually coriaceous and shining, 2-keele the tip, 
er muticous; lowe Ive hyaline, as long as on ightly shorter than the 
glumes ; uppe ong or linear, 2-fid or 2-toothed, awned from the sinus Siniocs 
muticous. odicules Bia ciliate. Stamens generally 3. Grain 
dorsally compressed, subglobose (in the cultivated bdr ag ‘Pedicelled 
spikelets ¢ or panel often much reduced or quite suppressed. 
a # i 
in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. ee vii i. 188) 5 perennial ; ; sth erect, usually 
sheaths ‘glabrous, exce i tho Saeed silky nodes, strongly 
linear-lanceolate or iat from ften rounded 
tapering to a fine point, 1~2 ft. long, 3-22 in. bro at, glabrous, 
or wit silky line on the back at the union with the sheath, 
margins serrulate, midrib stout; panicle decompound, very large, 
up to 1 ft. long, effuse, nodding, lower branches up to 1 f 
long, often undivide d to the middle ; rhachis and branches or 
d ni 
more than 
half as long as the sessile spikelets, more or less ciliate, — 
very similar ; sessile spikelets ovate-lanceolate, 3-42 lin. long, pe 
broad, pale, "ultimately sometimes darker or even blac ing ; 
lower glume wore or less hairy, at least on the sides, ol Suncived. 
callus shortly bearded ; upper lanceolate, acuminate, shining, 5-7- 
longer, kneed, sometimes reduced to a bristle or suppressed ; pale 
linear- -oblong, slightly shorter than the valve; anthers 12-1} lin. 
long ; grain obovate or obovate-oblong, } shorter than the glumes; 
