858 THREE NEW AFRICAN GRASSES. 
covered with long soft hairs, the blades are pubescent, flat, with 
margins recurved and apex tapering into a short awn, 7-8 in. long, 
14-2 lines broad, with a conspicuous whitish midrib, and numerous 
inconspicuous veins. The narrow lax panicle is 10 in. long. 
longer, rounded below, keeled above, with a thin apical awn 4 in. 
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racter of the fourth, run it down to the section Pseudanthistiria, 
with two species, Andropogon umbellatus Hack., from Ceylon, and 
India, China, an perhaps native in 
Collected in 17 92-4 by Afzelius in Sierra Leone, and designated 
Andropogon 2; also in the Sierra Leone Boundary Commission, by 
G.. FP, Hog be ES a No. 4108, on roadside near Regent, Sierra 
WFO; Vaginis ad basin culmi lanatis, culmi 
1ce minute pubescentibus, ore pilosis ; ligula breve, 
tr neata ; laminis Innovationum linearibus, supra angustatis, culmi 
brevioribus, magis angustatis, illis et haram infimis molliter lanatis, 
ceteris subglabris, costa media conspicua; i 
solitariis—3-nis, tenuibus, pedunculo vix filiforme, spatha lanceolata 
rufescente vaginato, terminatis ; pedunculo spatham sepissime ex- 
ced te, Superne patenti-villoso, villis fulvis basi tuberculatis ; 
racemis binis, altero breviter pedicellato, altero sessile, densiuseulis, 
6-7-articulatis; spiculis unifloris, racemi sessilis pari im Sa 
yassee Rendle, sp.n. Perennis, culmo erecto, 
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sess. ¥, brunneis, gl. Im oblanceolata, supra bicarinata, apice inter 
oe truncata, indistincte 6-nervia, callo brevi; I14 obtusa, supra 
tata cum arista vix pollicari 
