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CLVii. gramiNeae (Stapf). [Hyparrhenia. 
a bristle up to 3 lin. long, very closely 11 -nerved, upper acute, 3- 
nerved, ciliate ; valves hyaline, linear-oblong, reversedly ciliate, the 
lower obtuse, 1- to sub-3-nerved, the upper emarginate, 1 -nerved; 
anthers 1 lin. long Homogamous spikelets like the pedicelled but 
muticous, or only shortly aristulate. — Andropogon filipendulus, 
Hochst. in Flora, 1846, 115 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 389 (fili- 
pendulinus) ; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. vii. 362 ; Eyles in Trans. 
Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 295. A.f., var. calvescens (partly), Hack, in 
DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 635 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 
712 (partly). Cymbopogon filipendulus , Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. 
Welw. ii. 157 (inch var. angolensis), and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., 
xl. 227. 
Nile Land. Uganda : Kipayo, 4000 ft., Bummer, 526 ! Kisumu, 3650 ft.. 
Bummer, 698 ! 1781 ! Fumbua, 4000 ft.. Bummer, 3097 ! Kavirondo, common, 
Scott Elliot, 7109 ! Linton, 91 ! 1 degree north, covering low ground, Speke 6c 
Grant, 525 ! and without precise locality, Maitland,, 66 ! 75 ! British East 
Africa : foothills of Leikipia, Gregory ! Mombasa, Turnbull, 6 ! and without 
precise locality, Powell, 19 ! 139 ! 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Banana District ; Moanda, Vanderyst ! 
Stanley Pool District ; Mokaba, Vanderyst \ Angola: Pungo Andongo ; Sansa- 
manda, in meadows, Wclwitsch, 2773 ! Malanje ; between Umziga and Luculla, 
Gossweiler, 902 partly ! N’Jaia, near Munongue, Gossweiler, 3119 ! inundated 
banks of the Quiriri River near Kassuango, Gossweiler, 3719 ! Huilla ; thickets 
of Morro de Monino, Welwitsch, 2948 b ! 7524 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Kwa Mshuza, in 
forest, Holst, 8954 ! in old cultivated land at Muoa, Holst, 3118 ! Portuguese 
East Africa : east coast of Lake Nyasa, Johnson, 34 ! Nyasaland : Shire 
Highlands, Adamson, 102 ! 197 ! between Kondo we and Karonga, 2000-6000 ft., 
Whyte ! Rhodesia : Mumbwa, Mrs. Macaulay, 32 ! 60 ! M’rawa, in open veldt, 
Appleton, 13 1 Broken Hill, Rogers, 7701 ! Choma, 3500 ft., Rogers, 8093 ! 
Bulawayo, Rogers , 5898, 13508, 5869 ! Jeffries , 69. Salisbury, Mrs. Craster, 
1 ! 74 ! Flanagan, 3003 ! Umtali, Sawer, 3 ! Engler. Charter District, 
Mundy ! North Mazoe District, Mundy ! Gazaland : North Melsetter, 4000- 
6000 ft., Swynnerton, 1687 ! Chirinda, Swynnerion, 1640 ! Upper Busi River, 
3000-3500 ft., Swynnerton, 985 ! 988 i 990 ! Nyahodi River, 4000 ft., Swyn- 
nerton, 1660 A ! 
South Cen^raJL^l^ lgi an Congo : Eastern Province ; Albertville, Bescamps ! 
Var. pilosa^ Stapf'. Heterogamous pairs of spikelets usually 2 (or rarely 3) 
in each raceme, or at least in the upper. Spikelets very hairy, racemes therefore 
silvery or greyish- villous, their indumentum contrasting with the fulvous 
awns. — Andropogon filipendulus, Hochst. l.c. (partly) ; A /., var. pilosus, 
\ Hack. l.c. ; Durand & Schinz, l.c. A. finitimus, var. rectirameus, Hack, in 
Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. 137 (name only). 
Nile Land. British East Africa : Eastern Kenya, 4500 ft., Battiscombe, 
851 ! Makindu, Linton, 105 ! Nairobi, Boivson, 241 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Benguella; sunny gravelly slopes at Munongue, 
Gossweiler, 4150 ! 4151 ! Mossamedes ; near Huilla, Pearson, 2718 ! between 
Chibia and Quihita, Pearson, 2725 ! Serra de Chella, at Lobango, Newton, 32 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; below Majame, 
3300 ft., Volkens, 1576 ! Muka, Kaessner, 899 ! Portuguese East Africa : Beira, 
Rogers, 5945 ! Rhodesia : Mumbwa, Mrs. Macaulay, 60 ! Salisbury, Nobbs, 
630 ! 637 ! 669 ! 670 ! Eyles, 641 ! Sykinga, Nobbs, 647 ! 
The form described as var. pilosa hardly deserves the status of a variety. 
According to Gossweiler it grows with the ordinary form at Munongue ; it 
has also been collected along with it in Rhodesia and Natal. The species in its 
typical form has been found in Ceylon {Andropogon filipendulus, var . Thwaitesii, 
