Andropogon. | GRAMINES (Stapf). 361 
keeled in the upper part, the lowest whitish, withering or ‘thrown 
s 
narrow base, long tapering to a fine point, 2 to over 13 ft. by 3-6 lin., 
rarely narrower, rigid to subflaccid, flat, glabrous or subhirsute 
at the base from tubercle-based hairs, scaberulous or smooth 
scarious, often brilliantly red or purple, 
glabrous; common ‘peduncles filiform, enclosed, spreadingly hirsute 
above ; racemes usually half exserted from the middle of the spathe 
and at a right angle to it, 21-43 lin. long, dense, subcontiguous, 
subsessile with a tuft of long rigid yellowish hairs at the base of the 
lower, joints 1-3, filiform, truncate, 2 3 lin. long, ciliate, pedicels very 
similar, the terminal up to 1 lin. long; spikelets of the lowest pair 
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p wer glume thinly chartaceous, minutely truncate, 
dorsally disttaxad, subglabrous or pubescent, intracarinal nerves 3-5, 
mostly evanescent below the tip, keels spinulously ciliate above, callus 
very short, bearded; upper glume membranous, obtuse, 3-nerved, 
nerves scabrid or ciliate above ; lower valve linear-oblong, truncate, 
obscurely 2-nerved or nerveless, subglabrous ; upper minutely 
2-toothed, almost reduced toa r eddish fine geniculate awn, 5-10 lin. 
long ; pale 0; stamens up to 1 lin. long ; pedicelled spikelets oblong- 
lanceolate to oblong, 2-3 lin. long, pale to deep reddish, anne or 
pubescent; lower glume subherba pinines acutely acuminate, 7—9- 
nerved, keels spinulously eiliate; upper acute, 3-nerved, ciliate | 
lower valve oblong, obtuse, up to 12 lin. long, faintly 1-sub-3- ee 
upper linear to cuneate-linear, 1 lin. long or reduced, or 0; an nthers 
to 1 lin, ae if — Spreng. in Mém. Acad. Péterab ii. (1810), 
305, Cymbopogon elegans, Spreng. Pug. Pi. Nov. ii. 14; Roem. 
§ Schult Sq st. 11.833, Anthesteria cymbaria, 4 rin. piston in Mém. 
. sér. vi. ii, (1833), 323, not Roxb. Anthistiria 
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oo Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. ii. "562 
d, 
lax or r very lax, narrow ; 2 ae each ered acuminate, 9-12 lin. long, awn 
8-10 lin. long. A. lepidus, Nees, Fl. ‘Ajr. Aust.113. A. lepidus var. typicus Ss (in 
part), and var. umbrosus and intonsus, Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 
vi. 625; Durand § Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr.v.716. A. ised, Nees, l.c. 114, 
A. umbrosus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. sig ii. 467. Hyparrhenia ‘umbrosa, 
Anderss. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aeth. ; 
OUTH AFRICA: without precise bali Var. 8, Drége, 4360! 
Eastern KeGion: Natal; Umpumulo, Buchanan, 228 ! pakaw Berg Range, 
at Lain Ck, mann, 6 : ae V 304! and without precise 
locality, Cooper, 3346! Var. B doland; between ns River an 
Umtsikaba Rive 5 2000 ft., Drége ! Na t tween Umzimkulu River and 
manera River, below 500 ft., Drége ’ between Umtentu River and Umzim- 
pnd ége! and Umpumulo, Buchanan, 229! Zululand; Entumeni, 
ood, Eb s 
