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Habitat in Aegypto, Nubia, Abyssinia, Caplandia, India or., in America calidiore. 
Legit Schiiuper in locis arenosis ad ripas fluvii Tacaze (Abyss.). 
Gramineae. 
140. Sorghum Iialepense Pers. syn. I. p. 101. 
Holcus hal. L, Host. grani, austr. I. t. 1. Trachypogon avenaceus N. ab E. in Mart. fl. Brasil. II. p. 354. n. 13. 
Andropogon halepensis Sibth. Graec. I. t. 68. Andr. avenaceus Micbx. fl. Ain. bor. I. p. 58. Blumenbachia 
halepensis K6I. gram. p. 29. 
Spec. variat foliis latioribus, margine plus minus scabris, glumis exterioribus pl. m. 
villosis, culmo a pedali ad 6 pedalem. 
In agris contra Erment. Aeg. sup. Febr. fruct. (Hartm.) 
Habitat in Europa australi, in India, Nova Hollandia, Africa, America. 
Legit Ehrenberg in Aegypto Damiettae; in insula Roda prope Cahiram; ad Philas Novbr. 
fructiferam. 
Observatio. Specimina Hartmanniana aegyptiaca a speciei typo speciminibusque Ehrenber- 
gianis haud recedunt; glumae illorum exteriores basi tantum villosae, bracteae spiculae hermaphro- 
ditae omnes arislatae, folia poli, lata, culmi 2 pedales, 
var. Crupina 
Sorghum androphilum Ehrbg.I ined. in herb. aeg. Sorghum Crupina Link! Hort. Berol. p. 246. Andropogon? 
Crupina Kth. Grani. I. 166. S. halepense /?. latifolium Willk.?! Prodr. fl. Hispan. I. 48. 
In speciminibus nostris Sennaaricis: Radix fibrosa, verisimiliter perennis, juxta culmum flori- 
ferum novellos protrudens. 
Caulis erectus, basi flexuosus, robustus, simplex, usque ad panniculae basin foliatus, glaber, 
.striatus, nodis paullo incrassatis, dense breviterque sericeo-villosis, basi — 3 lin. crassus. Ii- — 2 ped. 
altus, internodiis 1, 2, 2|, 6- vel 1, 3, 5^ poli, longis. 
Foliorum vagina multistrialo- sulcata, glabra, in intimis 8 lin. lata, superne in infimis pur- 
purascens, 3 — 4 poli, longa. 
Ligula albida, membranacea, ciliata, margine haud lacera, ^ lin. longa. 
Lamina linearis, longe -acuminata, basi rotundata, inferne paullo angustior, subpurpurascens, 
subconcolor, utrinque glabra laevisque, supra ligulam breviter villosa, subtus nervis primariis pro- 
minulis, albidis, utrinque 6, 8, 9, secundariis cujusque interstitii 12 — 13, margine ciliis rigidis, ar- 
rectis, ^ lin. circ. longis acutissimis, basin versus evanescentibus scaberrima, 10 — 12 lin. lata, 4 — 8 poli, 
longa, vaginam vel aequans vel in inferioribus duplo superans. 
Pannicula erecta, 6 — 8 poli, longa, ramis erecto -patentibus, infimis plerumque geminatis, 
ceteris solitariis, cum rhachi 4 -angulato -sulcatis, ad angulos pilosis, pilis arrectis, in rhachi pri- 
maria rigidis, in ceteris longioribus, \ lin. longis, in ramorum et ramulorum exsertione in barbam 
sericeam aggregatis. 
Spiculae ternae, rarius geminae; sessilis hermaphrodita cum masculis binis (rarius singula), 
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