360 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [Andropogon 
A, Schimperi, to which Hackel age A. dvegeanus, is a wore robust plant, 
having much Lott pe more compound panicles, shorter, less curved common 
peduncles, which a ually not egee at all, and more conspicuously nerved 
and setulously ¢ iliate. ‘ane glum The pla ant “totsinted me sii y from 
Abyssinia as A. dregeanus is also distinet from Nees’ A. d 
26. A. dichroos (Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i, 389); perennial ; culms 
rather slender, erect, over 2 ft. long, pee terete, 4-5-noded and 
simple below the panicle ; sheaths terete or slightly keeled in the 
upper part, tight, glabrous, shorter than the internodes, except the 
hairy at the base, seabrid below and Jae the margins, nae 
reddish; panicle oblong, about 1 ft. long, lax ; spathes very narrow, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 13-2 in. long, obliquely ereet or divaricate, 
reddish, glabrous or spreadingly hairy, se anne below ; common 
peduncles filiform, more or less curved at the upper end or at length 
strict, shortly exserted from near the tip of the spathe or shortly 
exceeding it, with long spreading tubercle-based hairs below the tip ; 
racemes 4— 10 in. long, at length horizontally spreading or deflexe 
on vey short hirsute peduncles, falling together from the tip of the 
common peduncle, joints 2-5, filiform, ‘obliquely truneate, 13 lin. long, 
, the pedicelled barren; 3 spikelets gk termenecr 2 lin. long, 
pale ; ; lower glume subchartaeeous above, membranous towards the 
base, truncate, or minutely 2-toothed, "dorsally Rational: scantily 
pubescent to almost villous, with whitish or above with reddish hairs, 
intracarinal nerves 5-7, erancueit below, keels rigidly ciliate — 
callus shortly bearded ; upper glume rigidly membranous, obtuse 3 
nerved, ciliate above ; ‘lower valve oblong, truncate, faintly ncieel. 
ciliate ; upper shortly 2-toothed, glabrous, awn slender, ! 3—] in, long, 
aA 
rufously hirsute; lower glume acuminate, sometimes mucronate, 
9-ll-nerved, upper 3-nerved, ciliate above; valves 0 or the lower 
broadly oblong, up to = lin. long, ciliate ‘tid the pea reduced to a 
long ; pedicelled spikelets linear-lanceolate, up to 2% lin. long, 
microscopic cate scale. Hack. And dr. in DC. Monogr. Phan. V1. 
622; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 710. yr bicolor, Nees, * 
FI. Afr. Anitr, 113, not Roxb. 
Eas _ sie Natal; between St. Johns aa and Umtsikaba River, 
1000-2000 , Drege, 43 37! enue 2000 ft., Buchanan! Biggars Bergen, 
Rehmann, nii6! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 303! 
27. A. cymbarius (Linn. Mant. ii, 303, not Hack.) ; ager 
culms erect, usually from a very s slender and sometimes eit 
base, 3-6 ft. or more long, often rooting from the lower nodes 
glabrous, 6-10-noded, simple or branched; sheaths rindebiek pent 
hirsute with tubercle-based hairs or villous at the nodes, terete oF 
