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cl vii. GRAMiNEiE (Stapf). [ Andropogon . 
2- nate, one sessile, the other with a short bare base, 1-1 \ in. long, 
straight or somewhat flexuous, pale green and silkily-villous on both 
sides ; joints linear, very slightly widened at the tips into a thin obscure 
cupule, about 1J lin. long, somewhat transparent, densely ciliate on 
both sides, hairs upwards to 1J lin. long, back glabrous ; pedicels 
very similar. Sessile spikelet oblong, subtruncate, including the 
short obtuse bearded callus 2J lin. long, glabrous, pale green ; callus 
beard up to § lin. long. Glumes subequal, membranous, the lower 
shallowly grooved on the back with 4-5 very fine and close nerves 
along each keel and 2 more distant and stouter inner nerves bordering 
the groove, keels very minutely scaberulous ; upper glume boat- 
shaped, obliquely lanceolate-oblong, truncate, sometimes minutely 
mucronulate, 3-nerved, lateral nerves very faint, villously ciliate 
on the margins. Lower floret reduced to a hyaline oblong obtuse 
faintly 2 -nerved ciliate valve, 1J lin. long. Upper floret ^ ; valve 
very narrow, linear-oblong, minutely 2-lobed, 1J lin. long, lobes 
ciliate ; awn fine, up to 1 in. long, kneed and twisted about the 
middle ; valvule broad-oblong, truncate, 2-nerved, 1 lin. long. 
Anthers 1 lin. long ; stigmas laterally exserted, orange. Pedicelled 
spikelets $ , similar to the sessile; lower glume subherbaceous, flat 
on the back with minute close and fine nerves, and with a terminal 
bristle up to over J lin. long ; upper glume oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 
3- nerved, ciliate ; valve of lower floret as in the sessile spikelet, of 
upper oblong, emarginate with a minute point in the notch ; valvule 
0 ; anthers as in the sessile spikelet. — Benth. in Hook. Niger FI. 572 ; 
Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 471 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. 
FI. Afr. v. 729. A. spectabilis , K. Schurn. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiv. 328. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone : Freetown, Johnson, 58 ! Port Lokko, 
Thomas, 5823 ! 6569 ! 6687 ! Kumrabai, Thomas, 6843 ! Komorobai, Thomas, 
6921 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius ! Don ! Barter ! Smythe, 209 ! 
Scott Elliot, 3970 ! French Guinea : Timbo, Poheguin, 1784 ! 1809 ! Abudia, 
Krause ! Togo : Bismarkburg, Kling, 223 ; Buttner, 301 ! Misahobe, Bau- 
mann, 457 (467 at Kew) ! Southern Nigeria : Western Lagos, Rowland ! 
Ogurude, Holland, 278 ! 291 ! Obeyon, Holland, 285 ! Eruwa, Dodd, 382 ! 
Northern Nigeria : Yola, Dalziel, 296 ! 
North Central. Oubangi Territory : basin of the upper Ombella, Chevalier, 
5788 ! 
One of the commonest grasses of Sierra Leone, covering sometimes many 
square miles ( Scott Elliot, Smythe). 
^ 40. A. auriculatus, Stapf. Perennial. Culms up to 5 ft. high, 
terete, rather slender, glabrous, smooth, many-noded, producing 
flowering branches from the upper nodes. Leaf-sheaths glabrous, 
smooth, tight, those of the innovations much compressed and keeled, 
the others terete or slightly keeled upwards, produced at the mouth 
into linear-lanceolate acute straight or curved auricles, adnate to 
the ligule or at length breaking away from it ; ligules firmly scarious, 
oblong-lanceolate, acute or subacute, 2 to over 5 lin. long ; blades 
