Andropogon. } GRAMINE® (Stapf). 359 
acute, 1} lin. long, 1-sub-3-nerved ; upper narrow, linear, 1-nerved 
ciliate or both valves more or less reduced or the upper quite sup- 
pressed. Hack, Androp, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 621; Nye? JS 
Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v.72]. A. Sulvicomus, Hochst. ex A, Rich. 
Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii, 463. A. altissimus, Hochst. in Flora, is4l, 217. A, 
hirtus, Baker, Fl. Maurit, 446. Hyparrhenia fulvicoma, dindewa 
in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aeth. 310. 
— Region: Zululand; moist places near Inyezaan River, Wood, - 
Throughout tropical Africa and the Mascarenes; also in Brazil. 
25. A. dregeanus (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 112); perennial, eom- 
pactly tufted; culms erect, rather slender, 3—4 ft. long, glabrous, 
shining, about 5-noded below the panicle; sheaths of innovation 
shoots « compressed, fugaciously tomentose at the base, sheaths of the 
culms terete, quite glabrous or the uppermost scantily hairy, smooth ; 
ligules obtuse, up to 27 lin. long, hairy behind ; blades linear from a 
lanceolate, one ab ut 13 in. long, searious, reddish; common 
peduncles finely filiform, long exserted, glabrous except the strongly 
curved or curled tips, which are densely beset with long spreading, 
yellowish, tuberele-based hairs; racemes 1—] in. long, lax, scarcely 
spreading ; joints 5-10, filiform, obliquely truncate, up to 1} lin. 
long, shortly ciliate ; pedicels very similar; spikelets of the lowest 
pair of the sessile raceme alike, ¢, the os =sile of all the other pairs 
» the pedicelled ¢ or wie with stamens and an apparently 
perfeet pistil; sessile ¢ spikelets linear- einen 2 lin, long, pur- 
dmg pale below; lower glume subehartaceous above, membranous 
hear the base, ‘minutely truneate, dorsally flattened, glabrous 
e; 
shortly bifid, I-nerved, lobes oblong, obtuse, ciliate, awn about 
6-8 lin. long, very slender, pubescent and kneed below the middle ; 
pale ovate, obtuse, i lin. long; anthers $ lin. long; pedicellate 
' spikelets oblong- linear, 21 lin, long, dull purplish, glabrous or hairy ; 
ower glume subherbaceous, acute, 9-Ll-nerved; upper very acute, 
3- nerved, long ciliate ; lower valve linear- ari taeh obtuse, equalling 
the glumes, Scare d; upper 4-1 shorter, spathulate-linear from an 
extremely fine base, sub- l-nerved ; anthers more than I lin. lo g. A. 
Schimperi, Hack. Androp. in DC. Mon nogr. Phan. vi. 623, and 
Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 721 (in part). 
Eastern Recion: Transkei; between the Kei River and Gekau (Geua or 
Pg River), 1000-2000 ft., Drége! Natal; between Umtata esha! St. Johns 
iver, Drége, between Dest atk River and Umkomanzi River, Drége, and 
Griffins Hill at Kastcourt, Rehmann, 7310! 
