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clvii. GRAMiNEiE (Stapf). [. Andropogon . 
2-2% lin. long. Upper floret : valve oblong, 2-fid, with very acute 
lobes, 3-nerved below, ciliate ; awn slender, about 1 in. long, kneed' 
at and scaberulous below the middle ; valvule linear-oblong, hyaline, 
nerveless, 1% lin. long. Anthers 1% lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet 
dorsally compressed, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acute, 2%-3% 
lin. long, purplish or reddish ; lower glume 2-toothed, with an inter- 
posed bristle 2-3 lin. long, keels scabrid and sometimes ciliate, intra- 
carinal nerves 7-9 ; upper glume sub membranous, 3-nerved, 
ciliolate, aristulate like the lower ; valves of both florets hyaline, 
ciliate, that of the lower finely 2-keeled, of the upper shorter, 3-nerved, 
mucronulate. — Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 721 ; Hack, 
in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 11 ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 341. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Boran, Stordy ! Uganda: Mbuyuni, Scott Elliot, 6236 ! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : without precise locality, Rogers, 10989 ! 
Amboland : Oshando, very common, Schinz, 670 ! Awas Mountains, between 
Haris and Aub, Pearson, 9601 ! 
Mozambique Distr. Rhodesia : Broken Hill, Rogers, 8542 ! Gazaland : 
Northern Melsetter, 4000-6000 ft., Swynnerton, 1614 ! 
Also in Griqualand and the Transvaal (Johannesburg, Pillans, 1822 !) 
29. A. schirensis, Hochst. in A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 456. 
Perennial, 3-10 ft. high, densely tufted. Culms erect, slender, 
glabrous, terete, about 4-noded, simple, rarely with a flowering 
branch from one of the upper inter nodes. Leaf-sheaths terete, 
tight, glabrous, rarely hairy to almost tomentose, shorter than the 
internodes ; ligules very short, truncate, glabrous ; blades linear 
from a somewhat narrower base, long-tapering to a fine point, up 
to 1 % ft. long, 3-7 lin. wide, flat, rigid, more or less glaucous, often 
turning reddish, glabrous or sometimes shortly pubescent or loosely 
hirsute to almost villous, particularly at the base, smooth or more or 
less rough on both sides, margins scabrid, midrib slender, pro- 
jecting below, primary lateral nerves very fine, 4-5 ; subtending 
leaf with an ultimately very tight and narrow sheath, 6-10 in. long, 
and a long setaceous blade. Peduncles stoutly filiform, erect, termi- 
nating with a minute crenulate cupule. Racemes 2-nate, one 
sessile, the other with a short base (exceptionally several, up to 
5, on a very short common axis), 2%-b in. long, flexuous, silky- 
villous, conspicuously dorsi- ventral, exhibiting on one side the sessile 
spikelets with their joints and the pedicels in profile flanking them, 
and on the other the broad backs of the pedicelled spikelets with the 
dense cilia of the pedicels between them ; joints and pedicels clavate- 
cuneate, 2-2% lin. long, densely ciliate on both sides ; short except 
towards the tips where they increase rapidly in length up to 2 lin. 
long ; tips obliquely cupular or in the pedicels produced into a broad 
tooth. Sessile spikelets of all pairs heterogamous (except the 
lowest of the lower raceme — occasionally also of the upper — 
more or less reduced and awnless) laterally very much compressed, 
tightly wedged in between joint and pedicel, narrowly linear in face 
