574 -MONOCOTYLEDONE.E. ANDROPOGON. 
Africa tropica : in pratis paludosis exsiccatis ad Schire Dschogarti 
Abyssinize (Schimp. 526 un. it., et 1575 h. Paris.); Angola pr. Mon- 
hino (Newton in h. m.). 
B. Racemi 3—20, omnes sessiles v. subsessiles, dense fasciculati v. conglomerati. Antheræ 
' 0,6—0,9 mm. longæ, ovali-oblongæ. — Australienses, interdum ad Philippinas v. 
Timor insulas diffusi (n. 136—139). 
* Spieule 8 glabrae (136). 
136. A. affinis R. Brown Prodr. p. 201; Benth. Fl. Austral. 7, 
p. 530. 
Culmi erecti, v. apice plus minus nutantes, subeompressi, infra 
racemos puberuli, simplices v. inferne foliifero-ramosi. Vaginse teretes, 
arctæ v. subdilatate, preter nodos breviter barbatos v. glabros 
glabr&, scaberule. Ligula 1 mm. longa, membranacea, obtusa, 
glabra, sepe pilis stipata. Laminz plans, rigidule, glaucescentes, 
glabrz v. basi fimbriatæ, supra marginibusque scabræ, subtus 
leeviuscul®, costa media tenui uninervi haud carinata. Racemi 3—4, 
subgraciles, 3,5—4,5 em. longi, glabrescentes : articuli spicula sessili 
plus duplo, pedicelli ea subduplo breviores, utrinque parce accres- 
cendo-ciliati, ciliis summis articulo parum—duplo brevioribus. Spicu- 
larum par imum homogamum. Spicule 2 5,5 mm. longæ, oblong®, 
pallide viridule : gluma I™ chartacea, latiuscule truncata, infra 
apicem brevi spatio angusteque implicata, carinis minute ciliolatis, 
ceterum glabra, 8-nervis, nervis infra apicem desinentibus, callo pilis 
gluma 4-plo brevioribus barbato; II^ I æquans, lineari-oblonga, 
obtusa, carinis levibus; III^ primá 4—5-plo brevior, ovata, enervis, 
glabra; IV** arista 20—30 mm. longa, columná fuscá scabrá medio 
geniculatä subulam basi laxe tortam subsuperante. Spiculæ pedicel- 
late neutre, sessiles subsequantes, oblongæ : gluma I" herbacea, 
rotundato-obtusa, 13-nervis, glabra, carinis scabra; II“ '/, brevior, 
3-nervis ; III* 3-plo brevior, enervis; reliqua 0. 
Australia: Queensland ad Moreton Bay (Stuart), Keppel Bay (ex 
Brown), N. S. Wales et W. Australia (ex Benth.). 
** Spicule 3 gluma Ima carinis et secus lineam semilunarem carinas jungentem pus: v. 
tubereulis ortis obsita. — Culmi erecti. Vagin® teretes v. teretiusculi, 
nodis longe patentimque barbatis. Laminæ ee media tenui v. Cras- 
siuscula obtusa, supra late albo-lineata. Racemi crassiusculi, recti, plus minus me 
