303 
- Hyparrhenia .] clvii. gramine^e (Stapf). 
degree ; primary internodes numerous, probably up to 10 or more, 
the lowest up to over 9 in. long, the following gradually decreasing ; 
lowest branches undivided at the base, very long and several-noded 
or forming few-rayed tiers, with all the rays compound, the inter- 
mediate broken up into mixed, up to 8- (or over) rayed tiers ; simple 
rays very slender, filiform, f-J in. long ; subtending leaves with 
well-developed upwards decreasing blades, the lowest resembling 
the preceding leaves, quite glabrous, smooth. Spatheoles lanceo- 
late, finely acuminate, 1-1 £ in. long and 1-1 J lin. wide, thinly scarious, 
more or less tinged with purple, glabrous, at length narrowly inrolled 
peduncles finely filiform, more or less recurved upwards and at 
length laterally very shortly exserted from the spatheole, always 
shorter than this, pubescent upwards with some longer hairs, glabrous 
at the tips. Racemes almost contiguous (always ?), somewhat 
dense, §-J in. long, 7-10-awned per pair, sparingly silky, yellowish- 
green, the lower subsessile, the other with a slender filiform base 
under 1 lin. long, more or less hairy in the fork ; joints 3-5, finely 
filiform, obliquely truncate, about 1J lin. long, very shortly ciliate, cilia 
whitish or pale fulvous ; pedicels very similar. Homogamous pair 
of spikelets 1, neuter, at the base of the lower raceme. Fertile 
spikelets linear-oblong, 21 lin. long, pale ; callus very short, obtuse, 
shortly white bearded. Glumes equal ; lower very thinly charta- 
ceous, minutely truncate, dorsally flat, more or less fulvously hairy, 
particularly along the median line, margins involute, indexed near 
the tips forming short scabrid keels, nerves 9 ; upper glume mem- 
branous, truncate or submarginate, often minutely mucronulate, 
glabrous, ciliate upwards. Lower floret reduced to an oblong 
hyaline truncate delicately 2-nerved reversedly ciliate valve, under 
2 lin. long. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, minutely 2-toothed, 
awn up to 1£ in. long, column slender, fulvous, pubescent. Anthers 
up to | lin. long. Pedicelled spikelets neuter, narrowly linear- 
lanceolate, up to 2 \ lin. long, resembling the sessile in colour and 
hairiness ; lower glume chartaceous, acute, very frequently mucro- 
nulate to subaristulate, 9-11 -nerved ; upper shorter, membranous, 
acute, 3-nerved ; valves usually one, reduced to a hyaline broadly 
obovate scale long-ciliate from the top. — Andropogon bicolor, 
Nees, FI. Afr. Austr. 113 ; not of Kunth nor Roxb. A. dichroos , 
Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 389 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 622 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 710 ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. 
vii. 360. Cymbopogon Schimperi, Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot., xl. 227. A. hirtus, Phillips ex Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. 
S. Afr. v. 296 (partly). 
Mozambique Distr. Portuguese East Africa : Shupanga, KirJc ! Nyasa* 
land : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 39 ! Adamson , 197 ! Rhodesia : near 
Mumbwa (15° S., 28° E.), Mrs. Macaulay ! Victoria Falls, Rogers, 13278! 
Gazaland : Northern Melsetter, 4000-6000 ft., Swynnerton , 951 ! Upper Buzi 
River, 3000-4000 ft., Swynnerton, 993d ! 994a ! 
Also in Natal. 
