263 
Andropogon.'] clvii. gramineje (Sfcapf). 
North Central. Eastern (Shari : Senussi Country ; N’delle, Chevalier , 8090 ! 
(inclining towards var. squamulatus). 
Nile Land. Jin?- Gfhattas’ Seriba, Schweinfurth, 2362 ! 
^ Var. squamulatus^Sx, apf!* Joints and pedicels ciliate on both margins; hence 
the racemes more or less villous on either side ; sessile spikelets mostly 3§-4 lin. 
long ; callus-beard usually rather dense, frontal and lateral ; awn usually 
f-l-j- in. long ; pedicelled spikelets scaberulous to puberulous. — .4. gay anus, 
Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. 563 ; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. 
ii. 148, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xl. 225 ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 
v. 295. A. gay anus, var. cordofanus, Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 448 
(partly); Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 279. A. squamulatus, Hochst. 
in Flora, 1844, 244 ; Steud. l.c. 374 ; A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 454. A. 
helophilus, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98. A. hylophilus , Engl. Glied. 
Veg. Usambara, 38. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria : Katagum District, Dalziel , 275 ! Lo- 
koja, Dalziel, 288 ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Lower Shari ; Koussouri, Chevalier, 10304 ! 
Dar-el-Hadjer, Chevalier, 9717 ! Lake Fittri, Chevalier, 9931 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Sarae ; along the Mareb River, near Gundet, 5500 ft., 
Pappi, 358 ! Maragua ; Adi Mabit, 5250 ft., Pappi, 958. Medri od Tesfa; 
Adi Ghebsus, Pappi, 6611. Gallabat : Matamma, Schweinfurth, 1030 ! Abys- 
sinia : Shireh, Dillon ; Ferrfera Valley, Schimper, 715 ! Sudan : Sobat River, 
at Nasser, Broun, 1731 ! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon : Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 410 ! Belgian Congo : 
between Boma and the mouth of the Congo, Smith ! Angola : in grass-land 
between Anigenga and Lucolla, Gossweiler, 900 ! Loanda, Gossweiler, 1613 ! 
Mainga del Rei, Gossweiler, 1542 ! Penedo, Gossweiler, 1571 ! Benguella ; 
country of the Ganguellas and Amboellas, between Luasenha and Cutchi, 
Gossweiler, 3064 ! Gossweiler, 3918 (lower leaves coarsely villous) ! Camondai, 
Gossweiler, 5555 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; covering large 
areas, Holst, 2535 ! Portuguese East Africa : Querimba, Peters ! near Senna, 
Kirk ! Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan , 75 ! and without precise 
locality, Whyte ! Gazaland : Zinyumbo Hills, 1500 ft., Swynnerton, 1555 ! 
Chirinda, 3800 ft., Swynnerton, 967 ! Upper Buzi River, 3000-3500 ft., 
Swynnerton, 984 ! Rhodesia : Broken Hill, Rogers, 7700 ! Livingstone, Rogers, 
7079 ! Victoria Falls, Rogers, 5673 ! Bulawayo, Monro, 991 ! Salisbury, Mrs. 
Craster, 37 (spathes sometimes villous) ! 
Var. hisquamulatus, Hack. l.c. 448. Joints and pedicels ciliate on one or 
both margins ; sessile spikelets 3|-3| lin. long ; callus beard rather dense, 
frontal and lateral ; awn up to 1 in. long ; pedicelled spikelets (all or sometimes 
only the upper) more or less hairy to villous, in typical cases the spikelets more 
or less hidden by the long silky hairs. — A. gay anus, Pobeguin, Ess. FI. Guin. 
Fran9. 217. A. gayanus, vars. hisquamulatus, tridentatus, and cordofanus (partly), 
Hack., l.c. 448, 449. A. appendiculatus, var. polycladus. Hack, in Bull. Herb. 
Boiss. iv. App. ii. 11. A. hisquamulatus and A. cordofanus, Hochst. in Flora, 
1844, 245. A. tridentatus, Hochst. l.c. 246. A. cethiopicus, Ruprecht ex Hack, 
in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 448. A. gayanus, var. argyrophceus, Stapf in Bull. Soc. 
Bot. France, Mem. viii. b. 102. 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Kouroussa, Poheguin, 540 ! Abudia, 
Krause ! Southern Nigeria : without precise locality, Dodd, 385 ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Moito ; Baro Aouni, Chevalier, 9844 ! Central 
Shari ; swamp of Illi, Chevalier, 8581 ! 
Nile Land. Sudan : Kordofan ; Obeid, Pfund, 60 ! 80 ! Kotschy, 424 ! 
Arash Kol, Kotschy, 143 ! and without precise locality, Kotschy, 54 ! between 
Um Runbu and Eilafun, Broun, 907 ! 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland, Nels, 76 ! 
A. gayanus, var argyrophceus, may be considered as an extreme state with 
plumosely villous pedicelled spikelets and whitish villous basal leaves. 
