440 GRAMINEX (Stapf). [ Anthephora. 
XX. ANTHEPHORA, Schreb. 
Spikelets lanceolate to ovate-oblong, subsessile in deeiduous 
squarrose clusters of 4-6, on the very short branches of a eylindric 
apparently simple spike ; lower floret aed to an empty valve, 
upper ¢ or ¢ with or without the rudiments of an ovary. Glumes 
fe) 
inner side, upper hyaline, setaceously subulate from a small ovate 
base alves more or less equal, usually shorter than the lower 
glume ; lower oblong, hyaline, 5—7-nerved ; upper similar, but firmer 
and 3-neryed. Pale equalling the valve and of similar substance, 
2-nerved. Lodicules 0. Stamens 3; filaments fleshy at the base 
when young. Ovary lanceolate-oblong ; styles free or nearly s0, 
very slender; stigmas plumose, slender, exserted from or near the 
apex. Grain oblong-ellipsoid, enclosed in the spikelet; hilum 
acai embryo large, equalling about 4 the length of the grain. 
Perennial or annual ; culms tufted and erect, or ascending from a prostrate 
Sigg Tigules large scarious ; spikelets in ‘abieplonke clusters with their respective 
lower glumes turned outwards so as to form a false involucre, usu: ally with gaps 
between their bases 
Species 5; in tropical Africa, South Africa, South Persia and tropical 
America. 
Perennial ; lower ober orate, glume minutely tubercled 
and villous outside ; lower valve 5-7-nerve .. (1) pubescens. 
Annual; lower (involuc ral) glu me glabrous except ‘at : 
the base; lower valve 3-nerved ... iv (2) undulatifolia. 
1. A. pubescens (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 74); perennial, densely 
tufted; culms ereet or subgeniculate, rather slender, 1-2 ft. high, 
basal sheaths about 1 in. long, pallid, persistent, glabrous, sometimes 
scantily bearded at the mouth, or more or less pubescent to villous 
all over; upper sheaths 3-5 in. ia , usually quite glabrous ; ligules 
oblong, obtuse, up to 3 lin. long . blades linear, long tapering “to a 
subsetaceous point, 2-6 in. by” in —2 lin., flaccid, flat, glabrous oF 
pubescent above, slightly rough, margins cartilaginous, almost smooth, 
wavy ; false spike cylindric, 2:-4 in. by 2-3 lin., villous ; rhachis 
very slender, obscurely wav alias: . spikelets in subsessile 
clusters of about 5 which are bearded at the base, 2 1-5 lin, long ; lower 
Sted. dfonk. ie Bull. Hort, Holes te App. iii. 12. Tripsacum 
pu ubescens, Lichtenst.. ec Nees, lc. Cenchrus pubescens, Steud. 
Nomencl. ed. ii. i. 317. 
