356 GRAMINES (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
alike, @, the sessile of all the other pairs 3, the pedicelled 6; ¢ 
spikelets linear-oblong, 2-3 lin. long, pale or purplish ; lower glume 
chartaceous, minutely truneate, dorsally flattened, villous, “keels 
mucronate, 3-nerved, margins ciliate, keel hirsute above ; lower 
valve hyaline, linear- oblong, obtuse, faintly 2-nerved, s softly ciliate ; 
gee spikelets lanceolate, 23-3 lin. long; lower 
baceous, 7~—11-nerved, sdineerbatei or shortly awned ; upper lanceolate- 
spe ‘acute, 3- nerved, softly ciliate ; lower valve as in the 3 spike- 
lets, put 1-3-nerved ; upper linear, ciliate, nerveless, usually much 
shorter than the lower or obsolete. Thunb. Prodr. 20; FI. Cap. ed. 
Schult. 108 ; Host, Gram. Austr. iv. t. 1; eon, Enum. ii. 7499 ; 
Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. fig. 1498; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 110; 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 459 ; Steud Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 384 ; Hack. 
Androp. in DC. Monogr. Pint: . 618, and in n Bull. Her rb. Boiss 
pubescens, Vis. in Flora, 1829, i. Erg. Bl. 3; Fl. Dalm. t. ii. fig. 
2; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 111. Sei hirtus, Nees, Agrost. Bras. 
346. Heter ime hirtus and H. pubescens, Anderss, in Schwein. 
Beitr. #1. Aeth 
Var. 8, podotrichus ies lie, 620 in oa a culms 3-4 ft. long, rather 
slender ; an | internode over 2 ft. long; blades 8 in. to almost 2 ft. by 2 lin. 
gules 
ligules lin. Jong; panicle 1-12 ft. long, the pre branches babi stant 
common peduncles always with long ‘uberele ee hairs near the c A. 
richus, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn py . 384. to cshanes r podotricha, 
cu in Schweinf. Beitr. Fi. vn 
SoutH inlet without a ey ; Var. 8, Drége, 4345! 
Coast Reeion: Cape Div. Cape Town, Thunberg { Eck klon, 
87! ghee 7! at the foot of Table Mountain and Devils Mountain, below 
2 L AB 
Lwartkops River, Ecklon and Zeyher, 485! Alban ny Div.; mountain pides near 
Grahamstown, MacOw 94! King Williamstown Div. ; hepereen Yellow- 
saa ver and Zandplaat, 1000-2000 ft., 
0 rege 
CENTRAL ReGion: Graatf Reinet Heda a ill-sides, near Graaff Rei oe , 
00 ra Div. ; without asain pares Cooper, 337 
5000-600 
the R rt.» 
I 1 Region: Griqualand West; Hay Div., at Kili cid. Burchell, 
2! Doorn River, Burchell, 213 6/1! and at sd ou own, Bur chell, 1887 ! 
Orange Free per Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3735! Reheanaland 5 aageoner 
xt the Moshowa ae “Burchel, 2316! Transvaa oseh 
on Lessity << Blands: River | and Klippan, Rehmar 110! 
RN Reeion: Natal; without precise raed Gerrard, 670! 674! 41.0. 
B: Natal - pum malo, 20 00-2500 00 ft., Buchanan! Riet Viei, 6000 ft., Buchanan - 
iggars ehmann, 7120! 1712! Park Kop, Rehmann, 7668! and ’ without 
precise a Buchanan, 62! 
The hg ery form very common eeaua the Mediterranean region ; Vat. B 
through East Africa to Abyssinia, 
