358 GRAMINEH (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
oblong, obtuse, subglabrous, awn about 10-15 lin. (rarely 2-2} in. 
long, t pubes cent and kneed below the middle; pale 0; anthers 1 lin 
long ; jedinatled spikelets lanceolate, usually pale, 24-4 lin. long, 
glabrous or hairy; lower glume subherbaceous, acutely actiminate, 
9-11-nerved, often with a terminal bristle (up to 22 lin. long), keels 
spinulous ciliate; upper cuspidate, 3-nerved, ciliat ate; lower valve 
linear-oblong, obtuse, equalling the clumes, 1-3-nerved ; upper 
narrow, linear-euneate, 1-3 lin. long, l-nerved; anthers 14-2 lin. 
long. Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. 1. 384 ; Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. vi. We (in part); Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 721. 
(in part). A. formosus, Klotzsch ex Hack.l.ec. A. giganteus, Hort. ex 
ack. le. Hyparrhenia Schimpert, yar eal in Schweinf. Beitr. 
th, 300. 
HAstERN Reeion: Natal; without precise locality, Gerrard, hag F 
rather variable plant, extending throughout East Afric to epee 
Gerrard’s —— represents a : ust state vith hairy cpikalats like those of 
Schimper’s no. 897 (coll. 1853) a ara on 1863-8), and with long-aristulate 
dé spikelets as in Schimper’s no. 1052 ( 38). 
24. A. pai Kunth, Enum. i. 492) ; perennial; culms erect, 
stout, 3-8 ft. long, glabrous, 5-T7-noded below the panicle ; sheaths 
quite g hi ats (in the South African species) or hairy along the upper 
margins, terete, shorter than the internodes (except the lowest) ; 
ligules rounded, 1-2: lin. long, sometimes with hairs from 
behind ; blades linear from a narro w base, long tapering to a fine 
point, = 25 ft. by 2-6 lin., flat, rigid, erect, glabrous, more or less 
scabrid, margins very rough, midrib stout, white above; panicle 
usually large ‘and much branched, lax, oblong, contracted or rather 
ope ae sometimes to 2 ft. long ; spathes very narrow, linear- 
lanceolate to linear, tinely ees 12-2 in. long, glabrous, scarious, 
re eddish, erect or spreadin common eduncles wis filiform, 
exserted ; racemes slender, 3—] in. long, not spreading, often droop- 
ing ; aby 6-10, filiform, “obliquely truncate, up to 1 lin. long, 
shortly and densely ciliate, lower hairs white, upper reddish ; 
mee very similar; al the sessile spikelets ¢, or sometimes the 
lowest of the sessile raceme like the pedicelled ¢ or the latter some- 
times barren; 3% spikelets linear-oblong, 2-21 lin. long, yellowish ot 
reddish ; lowe er glume subchartaceous, minu utely truncate, dorsa lly 
flattened, glabrous or shia with short rather rigid fulvous oF 
ferruginous hairs or subvillous, intracarinal nerves about 9, 
evanescent below, eallus shortly bearded, wei rigidly ciliate above ; 
upper glume membranous, obtuse, 3-nerved; lower valve oblong, 
obtuse, “iliate, faintly 2-nerved; upper reid bifid, 1-nerved, lobes 
oblong, ciliate, awn $—1 in. long, bent at the middle, pubescent below 
the bench anthers: 1 lin. long; pedicelled spikelets laneeolate- 
linear, 23—22 lin. long, reddish or purplish, glabrous or pubescent to 
villous ; lower glume subherbaceous, acute, 7-nerved, keels rigidly 
ciliolate ; upper acute "3. nerved, ciliate; lower valve oblong, sub- 
