Aidropogon. | GRAMINEX (Stapf). 363 
1-2 ft. by 3-3 lin, flat or subconvolute, glabrous, rarely sparingly 
ft. 
slender, unequally peduncled (the longer peduncle 2-5 long, 
glabrous or hairy), 5-6 lin. long; joints filiform, up to ¢ lin. long, 
sessile spikelets 2 in the lower, 3 in the upper raceme, in both only 
e upper one @, the others ¢ like the pedicelled spikelets ; 
spikelets oblong-linear, 2-21 lin. long, pale, tips reddish, callus fine, 
acute, up to 1 lin. long, densely bearded ; lower glume —— 
truncate, glabrous or more or less hairy, intracarinal nerves about 5 
linear, aimetsaly 2- bathed, passing into a awn, 13- 2 in in, long, 
rufous-hispidulous below ; pale 0 ; anthers 7. lin. long Ee spikelets 
lanceolate to linear, geste 21-31 lin. long, dull ee 
valves oblong, obtuse, lower eas upper nerveless Ss, up to in 
long. A flipendulus 0 var. calvescens, "Hack. Androp. in DC na 
Phan. vi. 635; Durand etna pe Fl. Afr. v. 712. A. fili- 
ssc tag Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 389. 
Eastern on: Natal; heen de colony, Krauss, 28! near Durban 
sey, ’ poe T6s. partly! Umpumulo, common, 2000-2500 ft., Buchanan, 
Also in tropical Africa and Ceylon, and in a somewhat different form in 
Australia 
Hoch peeves s var. pilosus (l.c.) is based on Krauss, 164; but what I have seen 
under this number, is — like 28. Hackel describes, how ever, A. filipendulus 
byinede pilcene as having 2 ¢ — in the long-peduncled raceme ; | Swe: not seen 
any such specimen trom Atr 
30. A. transvaalensis (Stapf) ; perennial, tufted ; culms erect, 
vss sorte simple, slender, over ong, terete, glabrous, 
5-noded below the panicle; sheaths tight, glabrous, the lower firm, 
short, persistent, keeled above, fugaciously and adpressedly hairy, 
the upper much shorter than the internodes; ligules membranous, 
rounded, up to 1 lin. long ; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a long 
taceous point, up to 1 ft. by 12 lin., flat or convolute above, rigid, 
acute, 2-22 in. i creat reddish es peduncles filiform, 
exserted near the tip of the soa, the pale ft part flexuous, 
