305 
Byparrlienia.] clvii. gramineas (Stapf). 
floret ^ : valve substipitate, minutely 2-lobed, lobes rounded, 
ciliate ; awn 10-15 lin. long, shortly fulvouslv or rufously hirsute 
below the bend. Anthers 1 lin. long. Pedicelled, spikelets $ or 
neuter, lanceolate-linear, 2J-2J lin. long, like the sessile in colour 
and hairiness ; glumes equal, the lower subherbaceous, acute, 7-11- 
nerved ; upper membranous, 3-nerved, ciliate ; valves shorter 
t han the glumes, oblong to linear, 3-1-nerved, ciliate or more or less 
reduced or the upper quite suppressed. Homogamons spikelets 2J- 
3 lin. long. — II . fulvicoma , Anderss. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 
A 306. Trachypogon rufus , Nees, Agrost. Bras. 345. Andropogon 
xanthoblepharis , Trin. in Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 6me ser. ii. 281 ; 
Sp. Gram. Icon. t. 330 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 637 ; Durand 
& Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 727. A. rufus , Kunth, Enum. i. 
492 ; Hack, in Mart. FI. Bras. ii. iii. 282, and in Bolet. Soc. Brot. 
vi. 142, and in DC. l.c. 621 (var. genuinus) ; Durand & Schinz, 
l.c. 721 (var. genuinus) ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98 ; 
Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 358 (partly) ; Warb. in Baum, Kunene- 
Samb. Exped. 174, 475, 480 ; Pobeguin, Ess. FI. Guin. Franp. 216 ; 
Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Boma, viii. 287 (var. genuinus ) ; Cheval. 
Sudania, 106 ; Pilger in Mildbr. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 
44 ; Eyles in Trans. Boy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 296. A. rufus , var. fulvi- 
comus, Hack, in Bolet. Soc. Brot. v. 213, and in DC. l.c. (partly), 
Pilger, l.c. (?) ; Bendle ex Eyles, l.c. 297. A. rufus , var. glabrescens , 
Chiov. l.c. 288. A.fulvicomus, Hochst. ex A. Bich. Tent. FI. Abyss, 
ii. 463 (partly); Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 384 (partly). A. hirtus , 
Baker, FI. Maurit. 446; not of Linn. A. bouangensis, Franch. in 
Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, viii. 333 (reprint 25). Cymbopogon 
rufus, Bendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 155 (incl. var. fulvicomus), 
and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., xl. 226 (incl. var.). 
Upper Guinea. French Guinea : Batting River Valley, Pobeguin, 1816 ! 
Kouroussa, Pobeguin , 491 ! Northern Nigeria : Sokoto Province, Dalziel, 
487 ! Abinsi, Dalziel, 903 ! Katagum District, Dalziel, 266 ! Kontagora, 
common in damp places, Dalziel, 247 ! Lokoja. District, Richardson, 4 ! 
Southern Nigeria : Ogurude, Holland, 276 ! Cameroons : Yaunde, Zenker cb 
Staudt, 461 '. and without precise locality, Unwin, 9098 ! 
North Central. Bagirmi : Logone River , Macleod, 1518! Upper Shari 
region ; banks of the Gribingui River, between Fort Archambault and Fort 
Crampel, Chevalier, 10406 ! between Bousso and Fort Archambault, Chevalier-. 
10488 ! Ndelle, Chevalier, 6829 ! 7671 ! 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Adowa , Schimper, 914! 1113! and without precise 
locality, Schimper, 935 ! Jur : Nyangaru, Murie ! Ghattas’ Great Seriba, 
Schweinfurth, 2427! Bongo: Culango; Tondy flats, Schweinfurth, 2579! 
Uganda : Lado; banks of the Nile, Speke & Grant ! Banda, hilltops, 4000 ft., 
Dummer, 435 ! Kavirondo, Linton, 94 ! 98 ! British East Africa : Nairobi, 
Dowson, 1931 
Lower Guinea. St. Thomas Island : on the coast, Moller, 152 ! French 
Congo : Niari District; Bouanga, Thollon, 1078 ! Belgian Congo : Lower Congo, 
Smith ! Burton ! Stanley Pool District ; Kisantu, Gillet, 143 ! Angola : 
Loanda, Gossweiler, 402 ! Golungo Alto ; common in reedy places, Welwitsch, 
2954 ! Guanga River, Welwitsch, 7224 ! Sange, Welwitsch, 7246 ! 7264 ! 
and without precise locality, Welwitsch, 2948 ! Icolo e Bengo ; banks of River 
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