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cl vn. gr amine iE (Stapf). [Hyjparrhenia. 
denticulate ; blades very narrowly linear, tapering to a fine point, 
from a few to over 12 in. long, § to (rarely) 1J lin. wide, firm, 
usually flexuous, glaucous, glabrous or with some scattered hairs 
downwards, finely scaberulous, rough along the margins, midrib 
relatively stout, flat and whitish on the upper face, lateral nerves 
few, close, fine. Spatheate panicle elongated, often scanty, loose, 
from a few to over 12 in. long, of 1-4 distant 2-3- (rarely 4- or 5-) 
rayed mostly simple tiers ; simple rays subfastigiate when more than 
2, very slender, filiform, 4-6 in. long, often more or less kneed at 
the nodes ; spathes upwards with rapidly reduced subulate or sub- 
setaceous blades, glaucous, glabrous. Spatheoles very narrow, 
linear-lanceolate, long-tapering to an acute point, about 2 in. long, 
glabrous, rarely softly hairy, turning pale reddish, at length more or 
less tightly inrolled ; peduncles 2-3 in. long, subterminally or 
terminally exserted, at length equalling or more or less exceeding 
the spatheole, usually slightly arched, finely puberulous towards 
the tips, sometimes with additional soft obliquely spreading hairs 
up to 1 or 1 J lin. long. Racemes subcontiguous or slightly diverging, 
straight or flexuous, erect or more or less nodding, but not epinasti- 
cally reflexed, 1 to over 1 J in. long, 10-14-awned per pair ; more or less 
whitish or greyish silkily villous ; the lower sessile or subsessile, the 
other with a slender filiform glabrous or shortly hairy truncate base, 
up to over 2 lin. long ; joints and pedicels filiform, slender, If lin. 
long, subobliquely truncate, ciliate, cilia equal, J lin. long. Homo- 
gamous pairs of spikelets 1 at the base of the lower or both 
racemes, Fertile spikelets linear-oblong, 2J-2J lin. long, reddish 
upwards ; callus linear-cuneate, grooved, subacute, like the beard up 
to 4 lin. long. Glumes equal ; lower thinly chartaceous or downwards 
almost membranous, truncate, flat on the back, 9-11 -nerved, with 
the nerves faint below, more distinct and raised upwards, more or 
less loosely villous, margins involute to three-quarters, then more 
sharply indexed, forming subterminal scaberulous keels, upper 
glume thinner, submembranous, obliquely truncate in profile, 
mucronulate, 3-nerved. glabrous, ciliate. Lower floret reduced to 
a linear-oblong obtuse hyaline 2-nerved ciliate valve, almost as long 
as the glumes. Upper floret ^ : valve narrowly linear to almost 
stipitiform, almost 2 lin. long, with two short sparingly ciliate 
subacute lobes ; awn slender, § to over 1 in. long, with the column 
minutely fulvo-hirsute. Valvule 0 or an almost microscopic scale. 
Anthers 1J lin. long. Pedicelled spikelets narrowly linear- 
oblong, acute, 2J-3 lin. long, more or less loosely villous, reddish ; 
glumes equal, lower subherbaceous, acute to mucronulate, 9-11- 
nerved, upper thinner, 3-nerved ; valves linear-oblong, hyaline, 
ciliate, the lower 3-nerved, the upper 1 -nerved, much narrower, 
attenuated downwards or more or less reduced. — H. fodotricha , 
Anderss. in Aschers. & Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 306. Andro - 
q_ jpogon hirtus , Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 1046 ; Thunb. Prodr. 20 ; FI. Cap. 
