Andropogon.] clvii. gkamine^ (Stapf). 
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and glossy on the back, not quite 2 lin. long, shortly ciliate, obliquely 
truncate. Sessile spikelets heterogamous (except the lowest of the 
sessile raceme which is more or less reduced and awnless), laterally 
compressed, tightly wedged in between joint and pedicel, lanceolate- 
oblong, 2|-3 lin. long, including the short and shortly bearded 
callus, yellowish or greenish upwards. Glumes equal, lower minutely 
truncate, concave on the back, firmly chartaceous, glabrous, smooth 
and shining up to the middle, scaberulous upwards, nerves 7-8, the 
innermost distant from each other and from the remaining nerves ; 
keels scabrid upwards ; upper glume boat-shaped, subacute, thinly 
chartaceous, 3-nerved, keel almost smooth, margins ciliate. Lower 
floret reduced to a hyaline oblong 2-nerved ciliate valve almost as 
long as the glumes. Upper floret ^ : valve narrow, oblong, 2-lobed, 
1} lin. long, ciliate, awn about 9 lin. long, slender, kneed at the 
middle. Anthers If lin. long. Pedicelled spikelet $ , elliptic- 
oblong, 3-3J lin. long, greenish ; lower glume aristulate, very closely 
and finely nerved, nerves up to over 20 ; upper glume as long as the 
lower, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate ; valve of the lower floret almost as 
long as the glumes, oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 3-nerved, of the upper 
slightly shorter, minutely 2-toothed, 1-nerved, eciliate. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia : M’Bidjem, Thierry, 92 ! 
37. A. textilis, Rendle in Cat . Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 144. Perennial, 
densely caespitose, with numerous intra vaginal innovations. Culms 
erect, simple or very sparingly branched upwards, slender, up to 
3 ft. high, terete, channelled on one side, glabrous, about 4-5-noded, 
middle and upper internodes exserted, more or less rough or 
minutely puberulous towards the upper end. Leaf-sheaths tight, 
the lowest compressed and keeled, firm and persistent, the others 
terete, striate, smooth ; ligules lanceolate, very acute, scarious, 
nerved and firm along the sides, 2i-5 lin. long, glabrous ; blades 
narrowly linear to j unciform, hard, laterally compressed, tightly 
folded, or channelled towards the base, long-attenuated to a fine 
point, up to over 1 ft. (those of the culm much shorter) by J-£ lin., 
glabrous below, scaberulous or minutely puberulous above, scaberu- 
lous along the margins, midrib laterally compressed, keeled below, 
primary lateral nerves about 3 on each side, distinctly raised on the 
upper side. Inflorescence very scanty, reduced to a single terminal 
raceme or augmented by 1-3 distant undivided very long 1-noded 
branches, each bearing a solitary raceme ; leaves subtending the 
branches like the preceding culm-leaves. Spatheoles narrowly 
lanceolate, attenuated into a fine setaceous point, 2-4 in. long, sub- 
herbaceous, glabrous, ultimately tightly inrolled ; peduncles fili- 
form, sometimes flexuous, 6 to over 9 in. long, more or less rough or 
minutely puberulous towards the tips. Racemes rather dense, 
straight or flexuous, 1J-2-J in. long, greenish, slightly villous ; joints 
