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clyii. gramineje (Stapf). [Anadelphia. 
2- 3-rayed, compound rays, if any, up to 3-noded, very slender, 
flexuous and suberect ; simple rays up to 2 or even 2-| in. long, very 
fine ; subtending leaves like the preceding ones with upwards rapidly 
reduced blades. Spatheoles narrowly lanceolate, acute, 9-10 lin. 
long, subherbaceous, sparingly hairy, suffused with purple ; ped- 
uncles 3-5 lin. long, enclosed in the spatheole, pubescent. Racemes 
laterally exserted from the middle of the spatheole, consisting of 
2 sessile and 3 pedicelled spikelets ; joint and pedicels filiform, 
about 2 lin. long, densely silky. Sessile spikelets linear-oblong, 
up to 2J lin. long, including the callus, which is up to J lin. long and 
silky-bearded. Glumes equal ; lower truncate, coriaceous, brown, 
convex and smooth on the back, pale and scaberulous or puber- 
ulous at the tips, indistinctly 7-nerved, sides rounded far beyond 
the middle, then keeled, keels scabrid ; upper glume oblong, trun- 
cate to subemarginate, slightly keeled upwards, 3- to sub-5-nerved, 
ciliate, with a terminal bristle 4-5 lin. long. Lower floret reduced 
to an oblong obtuse hyaline sub-2-nerved upwards ciliate valve, 
2 lin. long. Upper floret ^ : valve linear-cuneate, 2-fid to the 
middle, with acute narrow lobes ; awn 1-lf in. long, kneed and 
twisted below the middle, column brown, scaberulous, bristle some- 
what paler. Anthers 1 lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet very 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, long and finely acuminate, 3J-4 lin. 
long ; glumes subequal, lower 7-10-nerved, upper slightly shorter, 
3- 5-nerved, delicately ciliate ; lower valve 2J lin. long, like that of 
the lower floret in the sessile spikelet ; anthers 2 lin. long. — Andro - 
pogon qfzelianus, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1893, 357. A. eriocoleus, 
K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 329. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Regent, Scott Elliot, 4108 ! and without 
precise locality, Afzelhis ! 
9. A. trispiculata, Stapf. Culms (only the upper parts known) 
terete, glabrous and smooth. Leaf -sheaths terete, glabrous, smooth, 
tight ; ligules membranous, rounded, very short ; blades narrowly 
linear, tapering to an acute point, not quite 1 lin. wide, glabrous 
or with a few hairs near the junction with the sheath, smooth below, 
margins recurved, spinulously ciliolate, midrib and nerves slender, 
slightly prominent. Spatheate panicle very narrow, over 1 ft. 
long, made up of few erect flowering branches, these subfastigiate, 
4- 5-noded, bearing from the first or second node upwards 1-2- 
rayed tiers ; rays appressed, unequal, the longer 1-1 J in. long, 
filiform, glabrous ; lowest subtending leaves like the preceding ones, 
the following spathaceous with rapidly reduced blades. Spatheoles 
linear-oblanceolate, narrow, very acute, about 1 in. long, scarious, 
glabrous, tightly inrolled downwards, widened and open upwards ; 
peduncle enclosed, finely filiform, about 6 lin. long, not thickened 
upwards. Raceme reduced to 1 sessile and 2 pedicelled spikelets ; 
pedicels stibequal, filiform, tightly appressed to the sessile spikelet, 
