Andropterum.\ clvii. gramine^e (Stapf). 
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appressedly hairy upwards. Leaves subglaucous ; sheaths tight, 
terete, striate, glabrous or more or less hirsute, bearded at the nodes ; 
ligules a line of stiff hairs, up to 2 lin. long ; blades linear, long- 
attenuated to a fine point, slightly contracted at the base, up to 8 in. 
long and 6 lin. wide (basal leaves not known), more or less hairy on 
both sides or almost whitish-tomentose beneath, margins spinu- 
lously ciliate, lateral nerves about 3-d on each side, hardly promi- 
nent, midrib slender, whitish. Racemes solitary, 2 to almost 3 in. 
long, on long and very slender exserted peduncles which are pubes- 
cent upwards ; joints and pedicels parallel, linear-clavate, subequal 
or equal, the former very thin, the latter slightly convex on the back, 
.about 1J lin. long, densely ciliate from the angles and more or less 
so along a median line on the back, otherwise glabrous and glossy, 
disarticulating subhorizontally. Sessile spikelets lanceolate, sub- 
acuminate, up to 2J lin. long, pale green, without a distinct callus. 
Lower glume linear, narrow in profile, keels more or less ciliate, intra- 
carinal nerves none ; upper glume slightly exceeding the lower, 
obliquely lanceolate in profile, finely 7-nerved, with obscure trans- 
verse veins, minutely ciliolate. Lower floret about 2 lin. long : 
valve oblong, subacute, very faintly 3-nerved ; valvule similar but 
narrower and 2-nerved. Anthers 1 lin. long. Upper floret ?, 
about as long as the lower : valve oblong, 2-lobed beyond the middle, 
with the lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved at the base, 
eciliate, awn up to 5 lin. long, slender, column spirally twisted, 
smooth along the spirals, bristle as long as the column, scaberulous ; 
valvule linear-oblong, obtuse, 2-nerved. Anthers rudimentary, 
very small, on short filaments. Stigmas over 1J lin. long, purple. 
Pedicelled spikelets linear-oblong in profile, obtuse, very pale green, 
edged with purple on one side, 3-3 J lin. long, glabrous. Glumes 
equal ; lower lanceolate, slightly prominently 7-nerved ; upper 
glume linear-lanceolate in profile, with a narrow wing from the 
middle upwards, about 7-nerved, nerves faint, tips purple. Florets 
similar to the lower floret of the sessile spikelet. Anthers of lower 
floret over 1J lin. long, of upper 1 lin. long. 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Namasi, Cameron, 17 ! Masuku Plateau, 
6000-7000 ft. Whyte ! 
7. APLUDA, Linn. Sp. PL ed. i. 82. 
Spikelets in threes, at the tips of the branches and branchlets of a 
leafy panicle, each three supported and embraced by a boat-shaped 
spathe, borne on a minute peduncle and deciduous from it as a whole 
together with the bulbous basal joint of the raceme, or the pedicelled 
spikelet disarticulating separately if fertile. Terminal spikelet 
small, barren or almost suppressed, on a flat broad glume-like 
pedicel. Sessile and lateral pedicelled spikelets similar in shape, 
both muticous or the sessile awned, alike in sex, or more often the 
