Andropogon .] clvii. gramine#: (Stapf). 
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delicately hyaline, ciliolate, 2- and 1 -nerved respectively or almost 
nerveless. — Hack, in DO. Monogr. Phan. vi. 464 (excl. var. Lima ) ; 
Dnrand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 705 (excl. var. Lima ) ; K. Schum. 
in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98 ; Pilger in Mildbr. Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. 
Zentr.-Afr. ii. 42. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Simen ; Mount Bachit, 11,000-12,000 ft., Schimper, 
Q5J Acallo Meda, 10,500 ft., Schimper, 358 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; above Bomba, 9200 
ft., Volkens, 1920! Ruanda; between Mount Sabuya and Mount Mgahinga, 
in meadows, 8200-8500 ft., Mildbraed, 1740. 
Hackel’s varieties genuinus ( Schimper , 350 — the number should probably 
read 358) and breviaristatus (Schimper, 95), represent evidently individual 
variations. Both were collected on Mount Bachit by Schimper. 
; 2. A. Lima A Stapf. Perennial, compactly csespitose, up to 3 ft. 
high. Culms simple, slender, 2-3-noded, terete, or slightly com- 
pressed towards the nodes, glabrous, smooth, the internodes not 
grooved. Leaf-sheaths terete, tight, glabrous, firm, the basal up 
to over 6 in. long, more or less persistent ; ligules oblong, up to 2 lin. 
long, decurrent on the sheath, membranous, glabrous ; blades* very 
narrowly linear to filiform, tapering to a slender point, up to over 
1 ft. long, J-f lin. wide, very rigid and tough, flat or revolute along 
the margins, very scabrid above on the outer lateral nerves and the 
margins or all over upwards, otherwise less so or almost smooth : 
midrib very broad, flat and whitish above, narrower and rounded 
below, lateral nerves about 3 on each side, very close, prominent. 
Peduncles filiform, glabrous, to over 1 ft. long. Racemes 2-nate, 
J-f in- long, both with a more or less hairy base, sometimes with an 
additional 1-noded raceme at the base ; racemes 3 to over 6 in. 
long, very slender and flexuous, rather dense, olive-green and tinged 
with dull purple or violet ; joints linear, 2-2J lin. long, very shortly 
and appressedly ciliate on one side, glabrous or almost so on the 
other, tips obliquely truncate ; pedicels very similar, if not 
more slender. Sessile spikelets linear-oblong, 4j lin. long ; 
callus very short and shortly bearded. Glumes equal ; lower 
chartaceous, minutely unequally 2-denticulate, shallowly concave 
on the back, glabrous, narrowly and subequally winged on the 
scabrid keels, inflexed margins very narrow, equal on both sides ; 
intracarinal nerves 2 on each side very close to the keels, none in 
the middle ; upper glume subchartaceous, narrowly boat-shaped, 
3-nerved, ciliate with a bristle up to 2 lin. long from a minute terminal 
notch. Lower floret reduced to a hyaline narrowly oblong obtuse 
2-nerved ciliate valve, 3J lin. long. Upper floret § : valve oblong, 
2| lin. long, 2-fid to the middle with narrow linear acute subeciliate 
lobes, chartaceous below ; awn 5-7 lin. long, kneed at and twisted 
below the middle ; valvule 0. Pedicelled spikelet linear to lanceolate- 
oblong, subacute, up to 4 lin. long, glabrous ; lower glume thinly 
