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clvii. GRAMiNEiE (Stapf). [Schizachyrium. 
equal ; lower thinly chartaceous, 2-dentate, scaberulous along the 
keels, with very faint intracarinal nerves, smooth or very minutely 
scaberulous on the back ; upper glume boat-shaped, acute, 1 -nerved, 
ciliolate. Lower floret reduced to an elliptic obtuse hyaline nerve- 
less ciliolate valve, distinctly shorter than the glumes. Upper floret 
? : valve 2-fid almost to the base, f lin. long, segments linear- 
oblong, subobtuse, sparingly ciliolate; awn 4-6 lin. long . Anthers 
1 lin. long, deep red or purple. Grain sublinear, tapering upwards. 
Pedicelled spikelet reduced to a minute glume, often passing indis- 
tinctly into the pedicel and produced into a bristle-like awn, about 
2 lin. long. — -Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. iii. 495 ; Nash in North Amer. FI. 
xvii. 101. Andropogon brevifolius, Sw. Prodr. Yeg. Ind. Occ. 26 ; 
FI. Ind. Occ. i. 209; Kunth, Rev. Gram. ii. 563, t. 196; Enum. 
PI. i. 488 ; Suppl. 399 ; Steud. Syn.. PI. Glum. 366 ; Hack, in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 363 (excl. var. fragilis ) ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 707 and Etud. FI. Congo, 315 ; Franchet, Contr. 
FI. Congo Frang. 15 ; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. vii. 165 ; Rendle in Cat. 
Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 142 ; Hitchcock in Contr. U.S. Nat. Herb. xii. 143 ; 
Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. Congol. 624 (partly) ; Pilger in Engl. 
Pflanzenw. Afr. ii. 166, fig. 122. A. obtusifolius, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. 
i. 583. A. parvifolius, Roxb. FI. Ind. i. 277 ; ed. Carey, i. 274. A. 
tenellus , Presl, Rel. Hsenk. i. 335. A. debilis, Kunth, Enum. PL i. 
488. A. floridus, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6me ser. ii. 265. 
Pollinia brevifolia, Spreng. Syst. i. 288. 
Upper Guinea. Los Islands, Jardin ! Senegambia, Leprieur. Sierra Leone : 
near Regent, Elliot, 41876 ! Roruk, Thomas, 5699 ! French Guinea : Timbo, 
Pobdguin, 1792 ! 1793 ! Kouroussa, Pobeguin, 522 ! Bammako, Chevalier, 
205! Koulikoro, Chevalier, 2350! Northern Nigeria: Nupe (?), Barter ! 
Southern Nigeria : without precise locality, Thomas, 1072 ! Cameroons : 
Yaunde, Zenker, 539 ! 
North Central. French Equatorial Africa : Pogo-Ham, near the Logone 
River, Macleod, 149 ! Shari region, Chevalier, 6122 ! 
Nileland. Abyssinia : Shahaganne, 5000 ft., Schimper, 1056 (1050 in Herb. 
Kew) ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 431 ! Angola : Ben- 
guella ; country of the Ganguellas and Ambuellas, Gossweiler, 3470 ! between 
Camandai and Cazenga, Gossweiler, 5767 ! Golungo Alto ; slopes of Alta Queta 
Mountains, Welwitsch, 7205 ! 7250 ! Pungo Andongo ; slopes of Pedras de 
Quinga, Welwitsch, 7043 ! 
South Central. Belgian Congo : Bangala District ; Lisha, Hens, C. 171 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Kondowe to Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., 
Whyte ! Rhodesia ; without precise locality, Allen, 748 ! 
Var. flaccidaf&tk pi. {Joints and pedicels ciliate and lower glume more or less 
hairy on the back, hairs white, otherwise as in the ordinary state of S. parvi- 
florum. — Andropogon flaccidus, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 452. A. brevi- 
folius, var. flaccidus, Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 364. 
Nileland. Abyssinia : Shire ; Beless Plateau, Quartin- Dillon. 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Zomba Rock, Whyte ! 
The species widely distributed throughout the tropics. 
2. S. platyphyllum A Stapf. Annual (?). Culms ascending or 
erect, many-noded, usually with barren or tardily flowering solitary 
