Andropogon. ] GRAMINE® (Stapf), 355 
pedicelled spikelets oblong; subacute, 2 lin. long; lower glume 
9-11-nerved, upper 3-ne ved ; lower valve oblong, almost equalling 
the glumes, 2-nerved, rita and pale 0; anthers 12 lin. long. 
ia 722. A. co 
16. 
and i, versicolor, Steud. Syn. Pl. Gram. i. 388. A, foliatus, Steud. 
le. 889. A. Scheenanthus, Baker FL Maurit, 446. Gymnanthelia 
connata, Aschers. and Schweinf. in ’ Schweinf. Ee Fil. Aeth. 310, 
South AFRICA: i Bee locality, mba? pe Zeyher, 1798! 
riqualan 
Katauanrt Reeion: Gri d West ; y t Klip Fontein, Burchell, 
165! Orange ives e edon River, Ay ! inburg, 
Buchanan, 5! Bloemfontein, Rehma 729! nee d; between 
i Fontein and Kn Fontein, Burchell, 2602! Transva ; Johannesburg, 
S.C.A. Herb. 311! Apies River, Nelson, 70*! Houtbosch, eae 5682 ! 
EASTERN REGION: Gri ast ; okst 
= near Licata a Tyson, 3121! Natal; common on the 
plains between og hmanns Rend and the Drakensberg nee. Krauss, 26! 
asia 2400 fi ie 231! 
Also in the was oe Islands and in India. 
The specimens from Bloemfontein and Johannesburg have very narrow lea 
and meagre inflorescence ces, like those of var. c@sius i. ckel) ; be ih pci Be Gan 
only as slight variations due to a particularly dry habitat. Hackel in rec es also 
the Aetnt form, which is a more robust plant hacia longer and much broader 
s and large i 
blade 1 ore compound panicles, from “ ia.” I een it 
xtra-tropical South Africa, unles: cimen, co y Buchanan, 13 
n part, on the Natal Coast is referable to it. A specimen, collected by Fleck at 
Rehoboth, Great Nam qualand is referred by Hackel « oiss. 1¥ 
App. iii. 12) to A. “ Schenanthus, sens. ampl.”? ‘Thunberg enumerates 
Schenanthus in Prod. Pl. Cap. 2U and in Fl. Cap. ed. i and ed. Schult. 108, 
Nees refers i h Twarancusa which . Nardus var. marginatus. There 
Is, however, no such plant in Thunberg’s Cape collection o far as [ have it ; 
but the localities given by Thun nberg i his Flora Capensi, om Lange Kloof 
and Kromme River, render it very probable that Nees was right 
A. hirtus (Linn. Sp. Plant. 1046) ; perennial, tufted ; inno- 
ies shoots mostly intravaginal; culms erect, rather slender, 
1-3 ft. long, glabrous, simple or more or less branched and 3-6- noded 
below the panicle, longest internode generally less than +4 ft. long; 
sheaths tight, glabrous, the lowest crowded, Secs rrp firm, 
panicle spathaceous, lax, contracted, sometimes eduntd pA a ie 
simple oo 4 to more than ft. long ; racemes $—1} lin. long, 
Tarely ‘eat peduncles, which are 1-3 lin. long, and more or less 
w finely a 
Scantily hairy reddish spathes ; joints filiform, obliquely truncate, up 
to 2 lin, long, densely ciliate, pedicels very es often produced. (in 
the South African species) into a linear or su appendage facing 
the upper glume ; spikelets of the lowest pair of ie sessile raceme 
pe ae 
