396 clvii. gkamine^ (Stapf). [ Anadelphia . 
upwards decreasing blades. Spatheoles very narrow, subacute, 
about 1 in. long, herbaceous, tightly inrolled ; peduncles as long as 
the spathe or conspicuously exserted, puberulous upwards with very 
oblique tips. Racemes 9-10 lin. long, of 2 sessile and 3 pedicelled 
spikelets ; joint and pedicels filiform, densely and shortly ciliate 
on both sides, 2 to over 2.4 lin. long. Sessile spikelets linear-lanceo- 
late or linear-oblong, including the callus, which is 1 lin. long and very 
shortly bearded on both sides and a part of the back, 3-31 lin. long, 
glabrous, greenish. Glumes equal ; the lower minutely 2-toothed, 
keels scabrid upwards, nerves 6-7, fine ; the upper oblong, 
emarginate, with a fine bristle 3-4 lin. long from the notch, slightly 
keeled, ciliate. Lower floret reduced to an oblong obtuse hyaline 
obscurely 2-nerved valve, almost as long as the glumes. Upper 
floret ^ : valve linear-cuneate, 2-fid to one-third, 1 -nerved, lobes 
lanceolate-acute ; awn very slender, about 8 lin. long, pale straw- 
coloured, kneed at and twisted below the middle, column asperulous, 
bristle abruptly deflexed. Pedicelled spikelets very similar to 
the sessile, if not slightly longer ; lower glume produced into a 
minute bristle, 9-nerved, upper slightly shorter, 5-nerved; valves 
similar to those of the sessile spikelet, but the upper entire 
and awnless ; anthers 1 J lin. long. 
Lower Guinea. French Guinea : French Congo, without precise locality, 
collector not stated . 
(Sfef/) 
7. A. arrecta ^Stapf. Perennial, up to 12 ft. high (Hens). Culms 
simple and erect, glabrous, usually pruinose or finely pubescent near 
the nodes, 4-many-noded (?) below the panicle. Leaf-sheaths 
tight, glabrous or more or less hairy upwards, sometimes finely 
pubescent at the base ; ligules very short, rounded or truncate, 
ciliolate, decurrent on the sheath ; blades narrowly linear from an 
equally wide base, long-attenuated to a setaceous point, rather firm, 
up to 10 in. long by 2 lin. wide, flat, loosely hirsute, particularly 
towards the junction with the sheath, or glabrous, scabrid along 
the margins, midrib rather wide on the upper side, slender below, 
lateral* nerves fine and close. Spatheate panicle erect, compound 
to the second degree, more or less contracted, up to over 1 J ft. long ; 
primary internodes 6-10, lowest rarely over 5 in. long, the following at 
first gradually, then rapidly decreasing, the upper usually scaberulous 
or very finely pubescent upwards and shortly bearded at the nodes ; 
primary tiers up to 4-rayed (the lowest branch often undivided at 
the base, up to over 1 ft. long and up to 7-noded), rays very unequal 
and except the uppermost usually all mixed, their compound rays 
with 3-1 (simple) -rayed secondary tiers : ultimate rays finely filiform, 
slightly thickened and rough towards the unilaterally bearded 
tips, those of the lower tiers up to 2 in., of the uppermost in. 
long ; lower subtending leaves like the preceding ones with long 
blades, the latter rapidly decreasing and finally quite suppressed 
