394 clvii. GRAMINE^: (Stapf). [ Anadelphia . 
exserted from their spathes, filiform, smooth, 1-| in. long ; lowest 
subtending leaves like the preceding ones, with well developed blades 
up to 6 in. by over 1 lin., these rapidly decreasing in the following 
leaves. Spatheoles very narrow, acute, 8-10 lin. long, herbaceous 
to scarious, reddish, glabrous, obliquely spreading ; peduncle finely 
filiform, scaberulous upwards, about 3 lin. long when flowering. 
Racemes up to 5 or 6 lin. long, lax, with 3-5 sessile and as many pedi- 
celled spikelets or pedicels ; joints subcapillary, 1 lin. long, shortly 
ciliate ; pedicels similar, if not more slender. Sessile spikelets 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-2J lin. long, including the short 
subacute sparingly bearded callus. Glumes equal, acuminate, 
glabrous and smooth except for the minutely scaberulous tips, keels 
short, very fine ; lower subcoriaceous, 2-toothed, 7-nerved, upper 
lanceolate-oblong, somewhat thinner, passing into a fine bristle 
up to 1 lin. long, 3-nerved. Lower floret reduced to an oblong obtuse 
faintly 2-nerved or nerveless ciliate hyaline colourless valve. Upper 
floret 1J lin. long ; valve shortly 2-fid, lobes lanceolate, acute, 
eciliate ; awn capillary, 5 lin. long, more or less bent at and twisted 
below the middle, straw-coloured throughout ; valvule 0. Anthers 
1 lin. long. Pedicelled spikelets similar to the sessile but slightly 
longer and acutely long-acuminate, lower glume 7-9-, upper 3-5- 
nerved ; both valves colourless, the lower sub-3-nerved ; the upper 
1 -nerved and minutely mucronulate ; anthers as in the sessile 
spikelets. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Baffing valley, Pobeguin, 1789 bis ! 
5. A. pubiglumis, Stapf. Perennial (?). Culms (base unknown) 
terete, glabrous, smooth, internodes usually conspicuously exserted. 
Leaf-sheaths tight, terete, glabrous, or hirsute upwards with tubercle- 
based hairs, smooth ; ligules truncate, hyaline, J lin. long ; blades 
linear from an equally wide base, tapering to an acute sometimes very 
fine point, glabrous or sparingly hirsute below, margins cartilaginous, 
smooth except towards the tips, midrib slender, lateral nerves ob- 
scure or 1 or 2 on each side, more or less raised. Spatheate panicle 
contracted, erect, stiff, over 1 ft. long, made up of branches the 
lowest of which are undivided at the base or like the following may 
form 2-4-rayed distant often mixed tiers ; compound rays with few 
very scanty tiers ; simple rays often very long (up to 4 in.), filiform, 
erect, smooth to near the tips, the outermost (abaxial) often re- 
placed (abnormally) by a barren branch with crowded normal leaves, 
hence the panicle is interspersed with leaf-tufts ; subtending leaves 
like the preceding leaves with well-developed blades and upwards 
more inflated spathaceous sheaths. Spatheoles subherbaceous, 
1 J-lf in. long, lanceolate, long-attenuated into a fine point, glabrous, 
dull or glaucous, purplish or reddish ; peduncles filiform, enclosed 
in the spatheole, J-l lin. long, slightly rough above, with truncate 
