Andropogon. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 349 
All of Burchell’s specimens agree otherwise exactly. Their panicles are erect, 
oblong, the rhachis oa the bra rasta are villous at the nodes apeth more or less 
hairy above them, e spikelets an the description of those of var. Neesit ; 
hey are, however, tie always very caer but often apicnlate, Var. Schenkii 
mene weil as var. Neesii is said to be grown also in various parts of tropical 
ric 
Shitias us 6. see sopocon (Hack.). Racemes ees: nearly always 
redeed ‘6 1 sessile J and 2 pedicelled 3 or bar pikelets of peduncles 
obconic, obliquely truncate, bearded; pedicels “aliform, not ee. Sessile 
spikelets eee 5 Het ally compressed, awned. Lower glume coriaceous or charta- 
ceous, complicate or involute; upper generally vedieit. and awned. Lower valve 
hyaline — “Tinea minutely 2- toothed or entire, — ieee, passing into 
the s glabro ain linear, laterally es 
u 
Pedicelled Sides dorsally al ans nsceins or aristulate from the glum 
15. A. me apt (Schult. Mant. iii. 665) var. Trinii (Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. vii. 193); perennial ; culms in dense tufts, simple or 
branched, 1-3 z high, usually’ very slender; lower sheaths com- 
pressed, crowded, more or less flabellate, upper keeled, shorter than the 
internodes ; ; ligules almost reduced to a fringe of hairs ; blades linear, 
cute, 3- 12 j in. by 1-4 lin., folded or flat, rigid, glaucous, g alan 
or minutely hairy, or ciliate towards the base; panicle ovate or 
oblong, erect, 2-41 in. long, rhachis smooth or seabrid, branches few 
or many in each whorl, capillary, flexuous, spreading, at length erect ; 
hee spikelets linear or linear-oblong, 3-32 li lin. long, pale, callus 
ea 
awn 7-15 lin. long; pedicelled spikelets lanceolate, about as long as 
the sessile, glabrous; lower glume 5—7-nerved ; upper 3-nerved and 
like the oni es hyaline and ciliate ; pedicels shout 4 1 the length of the 
spikelets, subclavate, fulvous or reddish ciliate along the margins, 
A, Trinii, isis Sun Pl. Glum. i. 395; Hack, Androp. in ; 
Monogr. Phar 558. Chr ry sopogon serrula tus, Trin. Andro. in 
Mém. Acad. Détersb. Sér. vi. ii. (1833) 318; Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 331 
Kabanarr Reeion: Bechuanaland; Kuruman, Marloth, 1064; Hopetown 
Div. Ae the Orange ce near ** Saltpan Station,’ Burchell, 2655! 
Also India ; the typical form which differs in the upper glume being 
covered ‘for more or less of its length with long, usually rigid rufous hairs, is only 
known from Southern India 
Marloth’s — was deavtias as var. y simplicior of A. Trinii by Hac 
lc, 559; but ue nnot see how it differs from reeds which Hackel pero on 
typical A, Trin 
Subgenus 7. Dicuantaium (Hack.). Racemes digitate, rarely solitary or 
panicled ; joints many, linear, opaque or translucent along the middle line, 
icels mi Lo pods 
rarely long. ower glume ee very iomt Phi min wes truncate, 
2-keeled ; upper keeled, awnless, Lower valve hyaline, rag bay erveless ; v0 
very narrow, gradually pussing into the awn. Pale 0 (in the African species), 
rarely present, very small. Pedicelled spikelets wee S ithe ed, awnless, 
