408 cl vii. gramin 'em (Stapf). [Elymandra. 
1. E. androphila, v <S^^/. Annual, up to over 6 ft. high, a coarse 
grass with stout culms (Pobeguin). Culms terete, rather slender, 
glabrous and smooth in the upper part (base not seen). Upper culm- 
leaves quite glabrous except for an occasional large beard of long 
fine hairs at the mouth of the sheaths, these terete, tight, shorter than 
the internodes, smooth ; ligules membranous, truncate, J lin. long ; 
blades narrowly linear from an equally wide base, very long-tapering 
to a fine point, up to almost 2 ft. by 2 lin., flat or with the margins 
revolute, glaucescent, scabrid along the margins, otherwise smooth 
or nearly so ; midrib slender below, wider and whitish above, 
lateral nerves very close, about 3 primary on each side, prominent. 
Spatheate panicle very lax, up to 2 ft. long, of 4-5 very distant primary 
tiers, lowest tiers reduced to a single 2-noded compound tier over 1 ft. 
long, the following 4-5-rayed with (except upwards) one of the rays 
compound and often over £ in. long, bearing a secondary tier of about 
3 filiform simple rays, 3-4 in. long ; lower subtending leaves resem- 
bling the preceding ones, the following rapidly becoming spathe- 
oloid. Spatheoles narrow, long-attenuated to a setaceous point 
or with a short subulate blade and a beard at the junction with it, 
3-4 in. long, more or less herbaceous when young, at length tightly 
in rolled ; peduncles filiform, terminally or subterminally exserted 
from the spatheole, scaberulous or rigidly puberulous upwards. 
Racemes loose, J-1J in. long, greenish, the upper bare at the base 
for 8-10 lin. ; joints of the base (between the homogamous pairs) 
linear-filiform, J-1J lin. long, subglabrous except at the ciliolate 
nodes ; pedicels of the homogamous pairs 1J-2 lin. long, glabrous, 
of the terminal trio 4-5 lin. long, densely ciliate on both sides. Fertile 
spikelets oblong, including the callus 5J lin. long, dark olive-green 
or olive-brown to almost black, loosely and finely pubescent ; callus 
£-1 lin. long, densely and shortly white-bearded. Lower glume 7- 
nerved, nerves quite inconspicuous except when seen on the inner 
side. Lower floret reduced to a hyaline oblong obtuse reversedly 
ciliate sub-2-nerved valve. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, 
minutely 2-dentate, 1J lin. long, glabrous ; awn up to over 3 in. 
long, stout, kneed at and fulvo-hispidulous below the middle. 
Spikelets of the homogamous pairs and the pedicelled of the terminal 
trio alike, or sometimes neuter, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, 
3J-4J lin. long ; lower glume herbaceous-chartaceous, acute or more 
or less acuminate, often produced into a mucro or short bristle, 
many-nerved, nerves close and .fine ; upper glume slightly shorter, 
subhyaline, 3-nerved ; lower valve equalling the preceding glume, 
hyaline, 1 -nerved, reversedly ciliate ; upper very narrowly linear, 
sparingly hairy or suppressed; anthers, if any, purple, 2 lin. long. — 
Andropogon androphilus, Stapf in Journ. de Bot. xix. 103 ; Pobe- 
guin, Ess. FI. Guin. Fran?. 217. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Fouta Jallon ; between Soumbalako and 
Boulish, Chevalier, 18631 ! Kouroussa, Pobeguin, 521 ! Timbo, Pobeguin, 
1786 ! 1798 I * 
