Andropogon. | GRAMINES (Stapf). 353 
extreme forms are compared; they seem, however, so closely linked by inter- 
mediate states, that I cannot separate them specifica cally, 
Sourn Arrica: without precise locality, Var. 8, Drége, 4354! Var. y, 
! 
800 ! 
Ast Reeion: Var.a: Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Milne, 240! Devils 
Mountain, Ecklon, ! near Cape Town, Burchell, 470! Cape Flats, near 
Rondebosch, Burchell, 200! Simon = Bay, Wright! MacGillivray, 402! Orange 
loof, Dodd, 2219! 2959! top of Kloof between Millers Point and Smith- 
Winkel, Dodd, 2974! Low hills South of Kommetje, Dodd, 1571! wae 
: d. 37 : 
ile, Dodd, 2071! Tokay Plantation, Dodd, 377! Worcester Div.; Dutoit 
Kloof, t., Drége ! Caledon ; Nieuw Kloof, Houw Hoek Mountain, 
Burchell, 8054! Riversdale Diy.; near the Zoetemelks , Burchell, 6692/1! 
h Div. ; Port ‘elizabeth, e S. A He rb, Hg Bathurst Div. ; between Port 
Alfred and Kaftir Drift, Burchell, 3845! Reg nk moist _ ces on mountains 
near Grahamstown, ft., WacOiwa 1G! ad. without precise locality, 
Atherstone, 51! Fort oe Div. ; Niet one Veli. near Bok Poort, 3500-4500 ft., 
ége,700! Catheart D 4 Waniscgels ers 4000 ft., Baur, 14! 
CENTRAL REGION: ok Aliwal North Div.; between Krai River and 
crags Zeyher ! Var. B: sr aiies North Div. (?); by the Orange oe 
6000 ft. 
Katanari Reaion: Var. 8: an Free State, Cooper, 1065! 
Eastern Rucion: Var. 8: Natal; Riet Vlei, 5000 ‘3 bgeney ie 230! 
Umpumulo, Buchanan pate bige: ars Berg, Rehmann, 7108! Var. 7: Na tal 5 near 
Durban, Williamson, 52! in damp places througho ut the a Krauss, 87! 
Inanda, at Um tamtootu, Wood, 1622! Pieterma ritzburg, atin, 7600! 
Var. 8 occurs also in Tropical Transvaal. 
19. A. plurinodis (Stapf); perennial, — tufted ; innova- 
tion shoots intravaginal ; culms slender, erect, 1-3 ft. long , glabrous, 
smooth, simple below, 4-6- (rarely 3-) n eae longest internode 
10 i rarely longer ; sheaths tight, shorter than the inter- 
nodes except the lowermost, which are fugaciously hairy to tomentose 
at the very base, 11-3 in. long, firm and persistent, the upper 
usually much shorter; ligules firm, very short, up to 1 lin. long, 
rounded ; blades very narrow, linear, filiform or setaceous in the 
upper part, 4—8 in, by 3-12 lin., flat or partly folded, rather rigid 
below, flexuous above, glabrous, glaucous, margins seabrid ; panicles 
acuminate, many-nerved, searious, reddish spathes, 3-11 in. long ; 
joints and. pedicels linear, slender, 1-12 lin. long, densely hairy along 
the margins, tips eupular, irregularly toothed ; spikelets of the lowest 
pair of the sessile raceme alike, ¢, the sessile of all the other pairs 
g, ee E aaipey ose spikelets very narrow, lanceolate, acute, 
3 lin ; lower glume chartaceous, acute or 2-toothed, more or less 
ate re the keels which are rounded and smooth near the 
base, obscurely winged and scabrid towards the reddish or purplish 
tips, intracarinal nerves 2-5, the middle one or all evanescent below ; 
Upper glume subchartaceous, ee, acute, 1-nerved, glabrous ; 
valves hyaline; lower linear, 2-23 lin. long, ciliate; upper r slightly 
paren _linear-oblong to linear, “deeply bifid, lobes — 
