Andropogon . j clvii. graminea] (Stapf). 235 
more or less hairy on the inner side ; upper racemes sessile or 
subsessile. Racemes rather lax, flexuous, 1-4 in. long, brownish, 
fulvously hairy to villous ; joints and pedicels filiform, dorsally 
compressed, If- 2 lin. long (the pedicels more slender), margins 
densely but shortly fulvously ciliate, the uppermost cilia up to 
1 lin. long, the others much shorter, tips minutely and obscurely 
cupular. Sessile spikelets all heterogamous, oblong-lanceolate, 
yellowish to chestnut-brown ; callus very short, obtuse and shortly 
bearded. Glumes equal ; lower glume chartaceous to subcoriaceous, 
minutely truncate and 2-dentate, flat on the more or less fulvously 
hairy back, keels acute, scabrid upwards, intracarinal nerves 4-7, 
equally distant or the innermost more apart leaving a thinner median 
zone between them ; upper boat-shaped, subcoriaceous to subchar - 
taceous, very acute, 3-nerved, glabrous or very sparingly hairy, 
ciliolate, keel scabrid upwards. Lower floret reduced to a broad 
oblong hyaline ciliate sub-2-nerved valve over 2|- lin. long. Upper 
floret ^ : valve linear, 2-fid to half-way, lobes oblong, obtuse, 
ciliolate ; base chartaceous, sub-3-nerved ; awn about 6-7 lin. long, 
bent at and twisted below the middle ; column and bristle hispidulous ; 
valvule 0 or obsolete. Anthers 2j lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet 
lanceolate, finely acuminate, of the same colour as the sessile or 
darker, 3j lin. long ; glumes membranous, unequal, lower glabrous 
or sparingly hairy on the back, with close nerves (up to 11) and 
scabrid keels ; upper slightly shorter, acute, thinner, 3-nerved, 
ciliate ; valve of lower floret broad-oblong, equalling the lower 
glume, 3-nerved, otherwise as in the sessile spikelet, of the upper 
floret narrow, lanceolate, over 2 lin. long, mucronate, 1-nerved, 
ciliate. — Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 445; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 708. A. ferrugineus , Hochst. ex Steud. l.c. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Debra-Eski, in meadows, 9300 ft., Schimper , 1010 ! 
Tigre or Begemeder, Schimper , 1215 ! British East Africa : Leikipia Plateau 
and Aberdare Range, Routledge ! 
Routledge’s specimens differ from Schimper’s in the more contracted inflores- 
cences and more hairy leaves, but are otherwise identical in structure. 
This breaks away from the Stenopogon type in the venation of the lower 
glume of the $ spikelets ; but it comes so close in other respects to the following 
2 or 3 species that it must be placed near them. 
19. A. Stolzii, Stapf. Perennial, compactly csespitose, up to 
over 3 ft. high, with extra- and intra-vaginal innovations. Culms 
erect, somewhat compressed below, stout, at least at the base, 
glabrous, smooth, about 3-noded, simple. Leaf-sheaths and the firm 
cataphylls of the innovations perfectly smooth and glabrous, basal 
sheaths very firm, long-persistent, tight, much compressed and 
keeled, produced at the mouth into short triangular to lanceolate 
auricles ; ligules membranous, truncate, ciliolate, laterally adnate 
or at length free from the auricles of the sheath, up to 1 lin. long ; 
