Chloridion.] 
CL VII. GRAJMINEiE (Stapf). 
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wide or slightly narrowed base, long-tapering to an acute point, up to 
8 in. by 2-4 lin., or in stunted specimens 1J-2 in. by 1|— 2 lin., hat, 
pale or glaucous-green, hirsute on both sides, or glabrous below, 
margins cartilaginous, rough, midrib very slender, nerves numerous, 
close, finely rough above. Eacemes 4-8 (rarely 2 or 3), slender, 
straight or somewhat flexuous, fi|—5J in. long ; rhachis up to f lin. 
wide, puberulous on both sides, wings scabrid or ciliate, greyish- 
green ; pedicels scabrid, the longer about j lin. long. Spikelets 
1-1J lin. long (excluding the awn), pale greyish or brownish-green. 
Upper glume ovate, acute or mucronulate, ~~ lin. long, pale, fi- 
ner ved or nerveless. Lower floret : valve spinulously ciliolate on 
the keels, very scabrid along all the nerves, awn very fine, 
straight, 3-5 lin. long, often purplish ; valvule square, up to almost 
Iq lin. long. Upper floret linear-oblong, acute, f-1 lin. long, 
J brown, early darkening except at the pale or whitish margins. 
Anthers §-§ lin. long. Grain whitish, f-J lin. long. — Stereochlcena 
J effreysii, Hack, in Proc. Ehod. Scient. Assoc, vii. ii. 66, and in 
Eedde, Eepert. vi. 321 ; Eyles in Trans. Eoy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 301. 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 7 ! Mount 
Chiradzulu, near the summit, Cameron, 180! N’tondwe Cameron, 107 ! 
Namasi, Cameron, 15 ! 20 ! Mount Mlanje, Adamson, 403 ! North Nyasa- 
land, without precise locality, Whyte ! Rhodesia : Bulawayo, Jeffreys, 46, 83. 
Bulawayo and Matoppo Hills, Appleton, 13 ! North Mazoe District, Mundy 
and without precise locality, Allen, 739 ! 750 ! 
54. ACXtITOCHiETE, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 53. 
Spikelets lanceolate, acute, falling entire from the pedicels, solitary, 
secund and distichous on the rhachis of slender spiciform racemes ; 
lower floret barren, reduced to the valve, upper §. Lower glume 
minute, upper embracing the base of the barren floret, shorter than 
it and produced into a long twisted awn. Lower floret : valve as 
long as the spikelet, with an awn like that of the upper glume, 3- 
nerved. Upper floret ^ : valve awnless, thinly chartaceous, 5-nerved ; 
valvule 2-keeled. Lodicules 2, truncate. Stamens 3. Ovary 
narrowly ovoid ; styles connate at the base; stigmas plumose. 
Grain unknown. — Annual, with decumbent much-branched culms; 
leaf -blades lanceolate, thin ; ligules firm and short ; racemes 2-3, 
distant on a common axis, or solitary. 
Species 1, endemic. 
1. A. Volkensii, Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxii. 5L Culms slender, 
erect from a decumbent rooting much-branched base, 1-1 1 ft. high, 
glabrous, smooth, with all the branches flowering. Leaf -sheaths tight, 
glabrous, smooth, mostly much shorter than the internodes ; ligules 
rotundate-obtuse ; blades erect, lanceolate, long-tapering to a seta- 
ceous point, contracted at the base into a stout puberulous or almost 
glabrous very short petiole, thin, glabrous or very sparingly hairy, 
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