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Hyparrhenia bracteata (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 

 360. 1919. 



Andropogon bracteatus Humb. et Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. PI. 4: 914. 1806. 

 Cymbopogon bracteatus (Humb. et Bonpl. ex Willd.) Hitchc. Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 17: 

 209. 1913. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, in marshy ground in Brachystegia wood- 

 land, 1400 m., July 25, 1946, 16934; ibid., common in moist situations in Brachy- 

 stegia woodland, 1400 m., July 27, 1946, 16975. Tropical Africa; Nigeria and 

 Uganda, southwards to Angola and Southern Rhodesia; tropical America. 



H. cymbaria (L.) Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 332. 1919. 

 Andropogon cymbarius L. Mant. 303. 1771. 



Cymbopogon cymbarius (L.) Rendle, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 38: 241. 1908. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, common in Brachystegia woodlands, 1500 m., 

 June 6, 1946, 16215. , Frequent in tropical Africa from the Cameroons, Anglo- 

 Egyptian Sudan, and Eritrea southwards to Angola and Southern Rhodesia; also in 

 South Africa, Comoro Islands, and Madagascar. 



H. gazensis (Rendle) Stapf in Prain, FL Trop. Afr. 9: 301. 1919. 



Cymbopogon gazense Rendle, Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 226. 1911. 

 Andropogon gazensis (Rendle) Eyles, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 5: 295. 1916. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, abundant in Brachystegia woodlands, 1500 m., 

 June 6, 1946, 16288. Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, one of the principal 

 grasses on moist parts of Brachystegia woodland, 1400 m., August 1, 1946, 17090. 

 Also in Portuguese East Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia. 



H. lecomtei (Franch.) Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 361. 1919. 



Andropogon lecomtei Franch. Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 329. 1895. (Contr. Fl. 



Congo Franc.. 21. 1896). 

 Cymbopogon lecomtei (Franch.) Rendle in Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 40: 227. 1911. 



Zomba District: Zomba Plateau, a common grass of the Brachystegia wood- 

 lands, 1430 m., May 30, 1946, 16093. Cameroons, French and Belgian Congo, 

 southwards to Gazaland. 



Exotheca abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Anderss. Nov. Acta. Soc. Sci. Upsal. 

 III. 2: 253. 1858; Stapf in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 384. 1919- 



Anthistiria abyssinica Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 449. 1851. 

 Andropogon exothecus Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. 6: 632. 1889. 



North Nyasa District: Nchena-chena Spur, Nyika Plateau, one of the most im- 

 portant species of the plateau proper, dominant in open grasslands, 2100 m., Au- 

 gust 20, 1946, 17344. Mlanje District: Mlanje Mountain; Luchenya Plateau, com- 

 mon in grasslands, 1890 m., July 13, 1946, 16817. A constituent of mountain 

 grasslands in tropical east Africa from Eritrea and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

 southwards to Nyasaland. 



Themeda triandra Forssk. (Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 178. 1775) var. hispida Stapf in Prain, 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 418. 1919. 

 Anthistiria ciliata L.f. var. hispida Nees. Fl. Afr. Austr. 121. 1841. 



Kota-kota District: Nchisi Mountain, one of the chief grasses of Brachystegia 

 woodlands, 1400 m., August 1, 1946, 17091. Common in tropical east Africa from 

 the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan southwards to Southern Rhodesia and in Angola and 

 South Africa. 



