Androjpogon.] clvii. Gramineje (Stapf). 
223 
sub-2-nerved, ciliate, of upper floret lanceolate-oblong, 2-fid, ciliate, 
with a mucro from the sinus or more or less reduced and entire, 
with a $ or $ flower, the slender anthers 1-1J lin. long, or 
as in the sessile spikelet. — A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 454 ; 
Hack in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 465 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. 
Afr. v. 705. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : in wet places on Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, 
Schimper , 223 b ! Rellaka, 6000-7000 ft., Schimper, 424 ! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 922 ! 
Schimper, 424, has the appearance of a weak specimen of A. abyssinicus, 
but the backs of the joints and pedicels are either appressedly pubescent or 
scantily covered with longer and more spreading hairs. 
7. A. polyatherus, Hochsl. ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 455. 
Annual, ft. high. Culms in loose fascicles, geniculate, erect, 
about 2-noded, very slender, simple or with a branch from the lower 
node enclosed in a sheath, glabrous, smooth, internodes exserted. 
Leaf-sheaths rather loose, striate, glabrous, smooth ; ligules membra- 
nous, glabrous, up to 1 lin. long, truncate ; blades linear, tapering 
to a fine point, 3-9 in. long, 1-2 lin. wide, green, flaccid, loosely hairy, 
hairs very fine, spreading from very minute tubercles ; margins 
smooth or slightly rough upwards ; midrib very slender, prominent 
below, primary lateral nerves 2-3 on each side ; subtending leaves 
spathaceous, subherbaceous, glabrous, smooth, 2-3 in. long, excluding 
the herbaceous blades. Peduncles filiform, 4 to over 6 in. long, 
glabrous. Racemes 2-nate, both with very short unequal and hairy 
bases, 2 in. long, rather robust, dense, subflexuous, loosely hairy on 
one side, very sparingly on the other ; joints stoutly linear, slightly 
wider upwards, 1J lin. long, transparent between the thickened 
edges, glabrous on the back, densely appressedly and shortly ciliate 
(cilia up to 1 lin. long), tips on one side produced into a small mem- 
branous auricle ; pedicels similar but 2-2J lin. long and appressedly 
pubescent on the back. Sessile spikelets <3, elliptic-lanceolate, 
3-3J lin. long including the callus, pale greenish ; callus obtuse, 
}-§ lin. long, not or obscurely transparent, bearded. Glumes sub- 
equal, lower submembranous, shortly acuminate, unequally and 
minutely 2-dentate, flat on the back, up to over 1 lin. wide, loosely 
hairy (hairs up to lj lin. long), keels with subequal transparent 
wings, intracarinal nerves about 7, fine, evenly distributed, stopping 
short of the acumen which is hyaline between the keel-nerves ; 
upper glume membranous, boat-shaped, gibbous, 3-nerved, with a 
bristle up to over 3 lin. long from a small terminal notch. Lower 
floret reduced to an oblong hyaline 3-nerved ciliate valve, 2J lin. 
long. Upper floret £ ; valve over | lin. long, 2-fid to and gibbous 
at the middle, cuneate-oblong below, lobes linear-lanceolate, acute, 
ciliate ; awn up to 8 lin. long, very slender, kneed at and twisted 
