352 GRAMINE® (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
crowded near the base, sheaths tight, glabrous except the oe 
which are fugaciously hairy to o tomentose at the e very base and 2- 
long, very firm and persistent, the upper 1-2 much shorter than ihe 
internodes ; ligules very firm, rounded, up to 1 lin. long; blades 
narrow, linea , very oe , tapering to a fine point, 4 in. to almost 1 ft. 
by 1-22 , flat, rigid, “glabrous, margins scabrid; panicles more or 
nae compo spathaceous, u usually narrow, 4-8 in. long; racemes 
4-3 in. long, finally deflexed or horizontally spreading, subtended by 
Satie boat-shaped, many-nerved, scarious, often reddish spathes 
$—]2 in. long, on slender common peduncles, which are 4—8 in. long ; 
joints and “pedicels linear, slender, about 1 lin. long, densely 
hairy along the margins, tips cupular, irregularly toothed ; spikelets 
f the lowest pair of the sessile raceme ¢ like the pedicelled, 
23-3 lin. long, reddish above; lower glume sub-chartaceous, 
minntely 2-toothed or subaeute; dorsally flattened or slightly 
depressed, glabrous, keels widened above into narrow or broad, 
often serrulate, scarious wings, intra carinal nerves 2-4, unequal, 
evanescent below, callus short, minutely bearded; upper glume 
lanceolate, acute or mucronate, l-nerved, glabrous, keel narrowly 
inged ; valves hyaline, the lower lanceolate- linear, 14-2 lin. long, 
ciliate ; upper linear, very narrow, bifid, 11-12 lin. long, 1-nerved, 
lobes fine, ciliate, awn slender, 6—7 lin long, kneed at or below the 
on glabrous below ; ae 0; guthers 1 ree at : A pen a lin. 
0; pale 0. Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. ii i, 11; Dur and f 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 718. = Schvenanthus, Thunb. Prod. 20; 
Lin 
1829, 472. A. peendo- hirtus, Steud. le. 471. A. Iwarancusa, Nees 
Fl. Afr. Austr. 117; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 388 (earanc) 
not Biane. Trachypogon Schenanthus, Nees in Linnea, vii. 281. 
Var. £, prolixus (Stapf); culms 3-4 ft. long, slender, 3-noded, internodes 
very long, the longest frequently over 1-11 ft. long; lowest sheaths 3 -1 ft. 
ng, ra in. 
long ; ligule in. long, rarely less, sometimes up to 8 lin. long ; blades 1-2 ft 
lin., often very rigid ; spu panicles, narrow, usually more com 
pound and more contracted than in the preceding variety, 3-6 in. long, bao 
st more or less distant flowering branch iio it, joints aan "pedicels usually less 
a liry 
Var -% ong eer culms 4-7 ft. long, stout, 4-5-noded, internodes 
often 1 ft. lon lower sheaths 3-1 ft. long; ligules 2-3 lin. long; 
So up to 2 ft. : rte atl si panicle narrow, much more compound than in 
he first variety, de ensely or 3-1 ft. long, witha distant flowering branch 
faa w it; proper spathes 7-9 lin. long; spikelets 22 ~21 lin. lon 
The African specimens of A. Ses us havea peculiar facies which distinguishes 
them in bse cases from the En which include the type. It is mainly “due 
the le sewn structure of the panicle and the, on the whole, slightly ing 
po neering The lower glumes a the g spiel of re “Ind ian varieties hav 
= ping | 1-2 shallow pits on the back, a peculiarity which I have never ob: f 
e African material. The 3 varieties deseri ibed” above are very d aifonent 
