Andropogon. | GRAMINE® (Stapf). 365 
Katanarr Reeion : Transvaal; Krans Kop or Modimulle, near the Nylstroom 
River, Nelson, 15*! 
. A. Ruprechti (Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. 
vi. 645); perennial, densely tufted; culms erect, stout, up to 
upper part, otherwise terete ; ligules membranous, obtuse, up to 11 
lin. long ; blades narrow, linear from a narrow base, tapering to a fine 
point, 3-1 ft. by 11-22 lin., flat or revolute along the margins, rigid, 
spathes very narrow, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 13-2 in. long, sub- 
So 
Searlous to almost herbaceous, pale-reddish or greenish, usually 
a 
glabrous except the hispidulous tips, the lower oblong, 2-euspidate 
(points up to 1} lin. long), finely channelled, ineonspicuously 
8-10-nerved, margins implicate near the tips, otherwise involute ; 
upper glume lanceolate-oblong, sub-5-nerved ; lower valve linear, 
obtuse, 23 lin. long, 2-nerved, scantily ciliate ; upper slightly shorter, 
stipitiform, obscurely 2-toothed, hyaline and 3-nerved at the base, 
awn 2-3 in. long, bent near the middle, rufous-pubescent below 
the bend; pale 0; hers : : 
linear-lanceolate, about 5 lin, long 
Subherbaceous, acute or in the upper spikelets narrowed into a 
_ Scabrid bristle (up to 2 lin, long), 7-1l-nerved, keels spinulously 
Ciliate ; upper glume 3-nerved, ciliate; valves subequal, 5-nerved, 
