Hyparrhenia.] 
CLVII. GRAMINEiE (Stapf). 
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ed. Schult. 108 ; Desf. FI. Atl. ii. 378 ; Kunth, Enum. ii. 492 ; 
Reicfib. Ic. FI. Germ. i. fig. 1498 ; Nees FI. Afr. Austr. 110 ; A. 
Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 459 (partly) ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 
384 ; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Scient. Alger, ii. 47 ; Batt. & Trabut, 
FI. Alg. (Monoc.) 126 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 618 (vars. 
a & /3, the latter partly), and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 11 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 714 ; Balf. f. Bot. Socotr. 316 ; 
Martelli, FI. Bogos. 93 ; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 
15 (vars. a and /3), 94 ; Rendle in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. iv. 
58 ; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98 ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. 
vii. 355, inch var. podotricha ; Pilg. in Engl. Jahrb. xxx. 268, and 
in Mildbr. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 44 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. 
Bot. Roma, viii. 26, 287 (vars. a & /3) ; Nash in North Amer. Flora, 
xvii. 122 ; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 296. A. pubescens, 
Vis. in Flora, 1829, i. Erg. Bl. 3; FI. Dalm. t. ii. fig. 2 ; Nees FI. 
Afr. Austr. 111. Trachypogon hirtus, Nees, Agrost. Bras. 346. 
Heteropogon hirtus and H. pubescens , Anderss. in Schweinf. Beitr. 
FI. Aethiop. 310 (accord, to Hackel). Sorgum hirtum, 0. Kuntze, Rev. 
Gen. PL ii. 792. Cymbopogon hirtus , Stapf in Kew Bulletin, 1907, 
212, and in Ann. Trans v. Museum, iii. 3, 129. 
Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands : Nicolai ; Mount Gardo, 5000 ft., 
Bolle ! St. Vicente, Moseley ! Mount Verde, Bolle ! Vogel, 108 ! St. Antonio, 
Ansell ! Vogel, 63 6* ! Valley of St. Domingo, Hooker, 100* ! 
Nile Land. Nubia: Jebel Uaratab near Suakin, Schweinf urth, 1035 ! Wadi 
Arab, between Suakin and Berber, Schweinfurth, 497 ! Erkowit, near Khor 
Ashal, Broun, 1237 ! and without precise locality, Figari ! Eritrea : Mensa ; 
Geleb, 6450-6550 ft., Schweinfurth, 1201, 1229, 1387. Amasen ; near Asmara, 
7900 ft., Schweinfurth, 554 ; Matcallat, Pappi, 4807 ! slopes of Mount Bizen, 
4600 ft., Schweinfurth, 2014 ! 2016 ! Saganeiti, 7200 ft., Schweinfurth, 808 ! 
1195, 1733 ; Haschello-Kokob near Acrur, Schweinfurth. 1022 ! 108 7 ! 1089 ! 
5250 ! Maragus ; plateau of Kohaito, Schweinfurth . Abyssinia : Tigre ; Adowa, 
Schimper, 922 .! 936_! 1053! Mettaro, 8300 ft., Schimper, l^SfiJ Gajeh Merki, 
Schimper, 1037 fH\lount Zladscha, 9300 ft., Schimper, lQ40_i. Berrechowa, 
5200 ft., Schimper, 1048 ! Mettgalo, Schimper, 1050 ! Jelajeranne, Schimper, 
714! 1795! and without precise locality, Schimper, 1056! Samen ; Jaja, 
6000 ft., Schimper, 294 ! Mount Bachit, Schimper, 641 ! Agrina, 6000 ft., 
Schimper, 907 ! Boran Country ; Lake Harimiya, Drake-Brockman, 50 ! British 
Somaliland: Golis Range, Drake-Brockman, 186 ! 471 ! Waggar Mts. ; Godais, 
5600 ft., Lort-Phillips ! and without precise locality, Drake-Brockman, 34 ! 
Socotra : Keregnigiti, Schweinfurth, 482 ! Balfour, 386 ! British East Africa : 
Lake Naivasha, 6000 ft., Scott Elliot, 6536 ! 
Lower Guinea. Damaraland : between Nauchas and Areb, in beds of 
streams, Pearson, 9029 ! and without precise locality, Nels, 75 ! 
The upper end of the peduncles sometimes bears long soft silky usually 
obliquely spreading hairs. Such forms occur throughout the area of the 
species, and are not otherwise separable. They are frequently enumerated 
as Andropogon hirtus, var. podotrichus. Of the specimens quoted above, those 
marked with an asterisk are referable to this form, so far as I have seen them. 
Common throughout the Mediterranean region, and in South Africa- Chiovenda 
(Z.c.) enumerates very numerous specimens under Andropogon hirtus (incl. var. 
podotrichus) from all parts of Eritrea where the plant is evidently very common 
