Dichanthium.] clvii. graminejs (Stapf). 
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chartaceous, often with purplish tips, slightly concave, at least above 
the middle, sharply ciliolate from the middle upwards, otherwise 
with (rarely without in the African specimens) some long very fine 
spreading hairs from near the keels, particularly in the upper part, 
glabrous or sparingly pubescent on the back ; upper glume acute, 
minutely ciliate, glabrous. Valve of lower floret linear to oblong, 
hyaline, glabrous or ciliolate ; awn of upper floret 8-10 lin. long, 
very fine. Anthers J lin. long. Grain oblong, 1 lin. long, dorsally 
compressed ; scutellum over J lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet about 
as long as the sessile, $ or neuter, usually darker. Lower glume 
semiconvolute, up to 13-nerved ; lower glume and valve as in the 
sessile or more or less reduced.— Andropogon annulatus, Forsk. FI. 
iEgypt.-Arab. 173 ; Delile, FI. figypte, 13, t. 7, fig. 2 ; Steud. Syn. 
PI. Glum. i. 380 ; Coss. & Dur. Expl. Scient. Alg. ii. 47 ; Ball in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xvi. 734 ; Duthie, Fodder Grass. N. Ind. 33, t. 20 ; Hack, 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 570 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. 
705 ; Penzig in Atti Congr. Bot. Genova, 1893, 364 ; Schweinf. in 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 13, 93 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 196 ; 
Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 350 ; Bendle in Ind. FI. Sin. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxxvi. 369. A. Bladhii, Boxb. FI. Ind. i. 263 ; ed. Carey, 
i. 259 ; Steud. l.c. 379 ; Trin. Ic. Spec. Gram. t. 325 ; Duthie, l.c. 
33. A. scandens, Roxb. l.c. 263 ; ed. Carey, i. 258 ; Steud. l.c. 381. 
A. obtusus, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Beech. Voy. 243 (partly). A. 
comosus, Link, Hort. Berol. i. 239, not of Spreng. A. garipensis, 
Steud. l.c. 379. Lipeocercis annulata, Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 98. 
Nileland. Sudan : Red Sea Province ; near Tokar, Massey ! Wadi Yumga, 
ScJiweinfurth, 703 ! Wadi Laemeb, Schweinfurth, 579 ! Geraschab, Schwein- 
furth, 758 ! Kordofan ; Abu Gerad, Kotschy, 45 ! Eritrea : Schegolgol Mantai, 
on the upper Barka River, Schweinfurth, 39 ! 94 ! Ginda ; Donkollo Hill, 
Schweinfurth, 208 ; near Geleb, between Geleb and the Bambit Valley, and top 
of Mount Sabbar, Penzig. Gallabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 1031 ! Soco- 
tra, 3000 ft. , Schweinfurth, 695 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Zambesi Delta, Expedition 
Island, Kirk ! Nyasaland : Shire Valley, Kirk ! 
From Morocco through North Africa, the Orient and India to China and 
Australia. Considered good fodder in India. 
OdcrcJ'vajA 
2. D. papillosum^ Stapf. Perennial, innovations extra- and intra- 
vaginal. Culms up to over 3 ft. high, erect or slightly geniculate- 
ascending, somewhat robust, terete, more or less wiry below, 7-9- 
noded, sparingly branched, branches suberect. Leaf -sheaths terete, 
tight, strongly striate, bearded at the nodes, and sometimes ciliate 
towards the mouth, otherwise glabrous ; ligules up to 1 lin. long, 
truncate or rounded, ciliate ; blades linear, tapering to a long fine 
point, scarcely contracted at the base, up to over 6 in. by 1J-2J lin., 
rather rigid, glaucous, flat, at length revolute, somewhat rough on 
the upper side from minute tubercle-based hairs, margins cartila- 
ginous, scaberulous upwards, midrib slender, lateral nerves 3-4 on 
