Andropogon. |] GRAMINE® (Stapf). 347 
pedicelled spikelets almost as long as the sessile, but narrower, ¢ or 
b 
effusus, Hack. Androp. in DC. gies Pha an. vi. 503; Du a 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 724. A. arundinaceus, Willd. 
906. Rhaphis arundinaceus, Desv. Opuse. 69. Sorghum oe eae 
Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 88. 
Coast Region: Knysna a hills age Puce Burchell, 5465! Komgha 
Div., hs of th the an River, below 500 
We ESTERN RuGion: Little Samoqoalads bi akan by the Orange River, 
near Vaslepenr “m, lie 500 ft., 
Has GI alban Ie P by ‘the Umtata River, ete taps he 
between the outa River and St. Johns River, pes ah 000 fis by the 
t. s River, in coffee Lares tise Natal; near Durban, "Det anks 
of Togele River, Buchanan, 296 ! the Umlazi aah: Krauss , 184! ! tin hiened, 
Wood, 1332! and without precise ey, Gerrard, 690 
Throughout the tropics, but particularly in Africa, The form from which the 
psa was originally described is apparently only a weaker state with smaller 
spikelet 
14. A. Sorghum (Brot. Fl. Lus. i. 88); annual; leaves as in A. 
halepensis, but the ligule often pie or ‘glabresce nt ; panicle very 
variable, from effuse to com act ; rhachis” of racemes tough, joints 
y 
4—24 lin., pale, reddish, brown or at length black, usually shining ; 
lower lame coriaceous, or more or less heckacsous particularly 
sian: the tips, rarely quite thin except at the base, often pro- 
minently nerved in the herbaceous part, erg ayes) quite glabrous, 
otherwise as in A. halepensis, awn 21-72 ong, more or less 
reduced or 0; grain Shovute - globose ; pedicle ‘spikelets @. or 
pie i. 294- 315; Hook. Fe Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 
Schum. in Engl. PA. Ost-A fr. B. 34. paren subsp. sativus, 
Hack. Androp. in. DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 505. Holeus np 
hye Lips Plant. 1047 ; Gertn. Pruct. i ii. 2, t. 80; Lamk. Illus 
Cultivated in numberless forms in the ng ais and ‘Sagan regions, pa 
larly in the Old World, and in the warmer parts of the t rate zones rh both 
emispheres, A great many varieties have been Saree of these 7 are said 
oc i outh ica. s I have ly 
Mmportant native 
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