362 GRAMINE& (Stapf). [ Andropogon. 
typical form is common he East Africa as far as Abyssinia, and in 
he oo Islands,—the var. lep also occurs in Be gee ain and Abyssinia, 
and is perhaps only a starved ants ti narrow leaves and spat 
Koenig’s specimen from which Linnzeus described the species was most probably 
Sige ga ea er plants in Koenig’s herbarium in the Mascarene Islands. There 
s also a specimen in Kottler’s herbarium without any ge of locality. The 
plant is not preety from India. A. cymbarius, Hack, l.c. 629, is quite a different 
28. A. Buchananii pee ae Snir 0 ; culms erect, slender, 
over 2 ft. long, glabrous ; sheaths (of the upper aga which alone 
are irae) terete, strongly aie, glabrous ; ligules membranous, 
up to 14 lin. long, glabrous ; bla linear, acute, in 
2 sessile spikelets (or lowest 1 in the subsessile raceme) ¢, similar to 
the barren pedicelled gan all the other sessile apikelas ¢3 ; 
¢ spikelets oblong-linear, 2-22 lin. eo callus acute, 3-3 1 
long, beard dense, white ; lower glume ‘subehartaceous, pee 
densely pany sa a TE in the upper part, hairs rigid, reddish, 
up to lin. long, intracarinal nerves about 5-7, evanescent 
below ; ne membranous, truncate, 8-nerved, reversely ciliate ; 
lower valve linear-oblong, 11-12 lin. long, ciliate, faintly 
large upper linear, shortly bifid, awn about 13 in. long, 
ta i 
n ve the e, rufous-hairy below the bend, scabrid 
above; pale 0; anthers 1 lin. long; ¢@ sessile spikelets limear- 
lanceolate, subacute, 3 lin. long, rufous-hairy; lower glu 
to the g, but narrower and smaller; upper valve minute or 
anthers 0 or rudimentary. 
EastERN REGION: Natal; Umpumulo, 2000-2500 ft., Buchanan! 
29. A. filipendulus (Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 115); perennial 
(always?) ; culms erect, slender, 2-10 ft. long, glabrous, more or less 
branched ; branches erect, intravaginal, leafy ; sheaths terete, sub- 
earinate above, tight or ultimately slipping from the culm, awe 
or the lower sparingly hairy; ligules membranous, truncate, about 
1 lin. long; blades linear, tapering to an acute, often very fine point, 
