Hyparrhenia.] clvii. gramine^j (Stapf). 
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developed blades, their sheaths usually more or less (occasionally 
densely) hairy, herbaceous to subherbaceous. Spatheoles narrowly 
linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate, 1 J-2 in. long, acute, subherbaceous 
to scarious, glabrous, at length very narrow ; peduncles filiform; 
laterally exserted from the spatheoles, at length exceeding them by 
a few lin. to J in., usually curved upwards with long tubercle-based 
spreading hairs above the curvature, otherwise finely pubescent. 
Racemes dense, somewhat stout, usually only slightly spreading, 
often nodding, the lower rarely epinastic, 8-12 lin. long, 7-13-awned 
per pair, silky, rich, rufously fulvous, the lower subsessile, the upper 
with a filiform subglabrous or pubescent base ; joints 4-6, filiform, 
subobliquely truncate, 1J-1J bn. long, very densely ciliate, cilia 
almost rufous, from J lin. (the uppermost) to 1 lin. long ; pedicels 
very similar. Homogamous pairs of spikelets 1 at the base of the 
lower or of both racemes, or neuter. Fertile spikelets lanceo- 
late-oblong, up to almost 3 lin. long, pale fco olive-brown (except 
the hairs) ; callus very short, obtuse, fulvously bearded. Glumes 
equal, lower subchart aceous, more or less (upwards often densely) 
silky, minutely truncate, dorsally flattened, 9-nerved, margins very 
narrowly involute all along, keels hardly any, hairs fulvous to rufous, 
denser upwards and often exceeding the glume by f-1 lin. ; upper 
glume thinner, pale, subobtuse, 3-nerved, hairy below the tip, 
ciliate upwards. Lower floret reduced to an oblong obtuse reversedly 
ciliate hyaline valve. Upper floret ^ : valve substipitiform, minutely 
2- lobed, lobes subacute, ciliolate ; awn J-f in. long, rich brown, 
bent at or below the middle, column shortly hirsute. Anthers 1 lin. 
long. Pedicelled spikelets or neuter, lanceolate, acute, about 
2J lin. long, densely silky ; glumes equal, the lower 7-9-nerved, 
the upper 3-nerved ; valves shorter than the glumes, oblong, ciliate, 
3- 1- nerved, the upper if present emarginate or both more or less 
-f reduced. — Andropogon smithianus , Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
vii. 232 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 622 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 723. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: Cameroon mountain, 7000 ft., Mann, 1342! 
2079! 
12. H. hirta^ Stapf. Perennial, up to over 3 ft. high, densely 
tufted from an oblique or sometimes creeping rhizome, innovations 
intra- and extra-vaginal, cataphylls firm, glabrous. Culms erect, 
slender, wiry and solid below, glabrous, smooth, passing above the 
third or fourth internode into a spatheate panicle, very frequently 
with barren or mixed branches from the lower nodes. Leaf -sheaths 
of the innovations compressed and keeled otherwise terete, glabrous 
and smooth or the lower sometimes loosely hairy, the upper shorter, 
the basal longer than the internodes, firm and long persistent ; 
ligules scarious or membranous, truncate, up to 2 lin. long, ciliate- 
