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clvii. gramineje (Stapf). [j Heteropogon . 
Unear-oblong, subobtuse, sides much thinner than the hispidnlous 
coriaceous very obtuse dorsal keel. Lower floret reduced to a linear- 
oblong hyaline ciliolate nerveless valve, 1J lin. long. Upper floret J : 
valve stipitiform from a very slender hyaline base, cartilaginous 
above it and passing into a stout geniculate awn, 2 to over 4 in. long, 
column at length dark brown, shortly greyish-pubescent, somewhat 
longer than the paler bristle ; valvule 0. Lodicules microscopic. 
Stamens 0 or reduced to microscopic rudiments. Stigmas exserted 
terminally. Grain linear, 1 j-lj lin. long, semiterete, grooved on the 
face, whitish. Male spikelets all alike or the lowest somewhat 
reduced, dorsally flattened, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 4-5 lin. 
long, green, the sessile almost symmetric, the pedicelled somewhat 
asymmetric and contorted ; glumes subequal, the lower herbaceous, 
closely many-nerved, glabrous or variously hairy, hairs tubercle- 
based, few or many in a single row along the margin, or spread over 
a marginal zone or all over and then sometimes long, rigid and 
spreading, keels more or less unequally winged upwards, inflexed 
flaps very narrow ; upper glume membranous, acute, 3-nerved, 
ciliate upwards ; valves linear-oblanceolate, hyaline, 1 -nerved, 
ciliolate, of the lower floret 3-3J lin., and obtuse, of the upper 
slightly shorter, narrower, acute ; lodicules small ; anthers 1-| lin. 
long. — Nees in Linnsea, vii. 284, and FI. Afr. Austr. 101 ; Webb in 
Hook. Niger FI. 190 ; Benth. FI. Austral, vii. 517 ; Duthie, Fodd. 
Grass. N. Ind. 32, 111. t. 19; Maiden, Us. PI. Austral. 90; Stapf 
in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 211 ; Burtt-Davy in Ann. Transvaal Mus. 
iii. 129 ; Nash in North Amer. FI. xvii. 128. II. hirtus , Pers. Syn. 
li. 533 ; Balf. f. Bot. Socotra, 316 ; Bendle, Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 
153 (includ. var. glaber). H. glaber, Pers. l.c. ; Beauv. Agrost. 134, 
t. 23, fig. 8. II. hirsutus, Beauv. l.c. .134. II. Allionii , Boem. & 
Schult. l.c. 835 ; Nees, Gen. FI. Germ. Monocot. i. t. 94 ; Beichenb. 
Icon. FI. Germ, i. t. 53, fig. 1496-7. H. polystachyus, Nees, Agrost. 
Bras. 364 ; Peters, Beise Mossamb. Bot. 563. II. Roxburghii, 
Walk.-Arn. ex Nees, in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. i. 183. 
II. messanensis, Guss. l.c. H. Ilohenacken, Hochst. ex Miq. Anal. 
Bot. Ind. ii. 24. II. hispidissimus, Ilochst. ex Steud. Syn. PI. 
Glum. i. 367. H. besulciensis, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 494. Andro- 
pogon contortus , Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 1045 ; Lam. 111. t. 840 ; All. FI. 
Pedem. ii. 260, t. 91, fig. 4 ; Kunth, Enum. i. 486 ; Steud. Syn. PL 
Glum. i. 367 ; A. Bich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 453 ; Baker, FI. Maurit. 
444 ; Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. 137, and v. 213, and in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. vi. 585 (incl. all the varieties), and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. 
App. iii. 11 ; Klatt in Jahrb. Hamb. Wiss. Anst. ix. 121 ; Engl. 
Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 113 ; Glied. Veg. Usambara, 35 ; Pflan- 
zenw. Afr. i. 566, fig. 502 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 
13 and 93 : Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 709 ; K. Sebum, in 
Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98 ; Erancli. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, 
viii. 27 (of reprint) ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 199 ; Chiov. in Ann, 
