Hyparrhenia.] clvii. gramine.e (Stapf). 
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along one margin, spinulously ciliolate along the other, nerves 
7-8 ; upper glume thinner, mucronate, 3-nerved, erect, ciliolate ; 
valves hyaline, linear-oblong to linear, erect-ciliolate, lower 2 lin. 
long, subobtuse, 1-nerved, upper slightly shorter, notched, almost 
nerveless. Spikelets of the homogamous pair similar to the pedi- 
celled, but with a fine hyaline acumen and no bristle, the sessile much 
larger, about 4-5 lin. long, 1J lin. wide, the other subsessile. — H. 
quinqueplex, Aschers. & Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 306. Andro- 
pogon cymbarius, A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 466 ; Hack, in DC. 
Monogr. Phan. vi. 629 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 710 
(partly) ; Schweinfurth in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 94 (?) ; 
Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 288 (?). Anthistiria pseudocym - 
-p baria, Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 399. A. quinqueplex , Steud. l.c. 400. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Keren ; Zad Amba, Steudner, 1094 ! Sarae ; near 
Debarroa, along the River Mareb, Pappi, 409 ! Abyssinia : Mountains near 
Adowa, Schimper, 1098 ! Gennia, Schimper, 923 ! Jaja, 6000 ft., Schimper, 
311! Tigre ; Mai Zengettem, Antizo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 503 ! Gondar, Massey, 
ITT and without precise locality, Sabatier ! Soudan : Roseires, on the Blue 
Nile, Broun, 37 ! 38 ! and without precise locality, Penton ! 
If Schweinfurth’s and Chiovenda’s specimens enumerated under Andropogon 
cymbarius be referable to this species, as is practically certain, the following 
localities will have to be added : — Eritrea : Amasen : Asmara, 5900 ft., Schwein- 
furth, 656; Tellini, 364. Barka ; Messeam River, 4600 ft., Schweinfurth, 
33, 34. Bogos ; Keren, Tellini, 1291. Dembelas ; along the Mai Ciagharit, 
Pappi, 6039. Mai Giahan, 5250 ft., Pappi, 6624. Mai Mappeles, Schwein- 
furth. Mensa, 5900-7900, Terraccidno cb Pappi, 559, 1186, 1522, 1829. 
Sarae ; various places between 5900-6950 ft., Pappi, 56, 192, 590. Ocule Cusai, 
Pappi, 6550-8500, Pappi, 1402, 1707. Marabus; Kohait, Pappi, 1002. Beni 
Amer, Pappi, 6322. Medri Od Tesfa, Pappi, 6576, 612, 6727. 
22. H. anthistirioides^ Anderss. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 
306. Annual. Culms very slender, erect, up to 1 ft. high, subterete, 
glabrous, smooth, simple and 4- or 5-noded below the inflorescence. 
Leaf-sheaths glabrous, smooth, the lower more or less compressed 
and keeled, the upper terete, produced at the mouth into a short 
triangular auricle ; ligules scarious, very short, truncate, adnate 
to the auricles of the sheath ; blades linear from an almost equally 
wide base, acutely acuminate, up to over 3 in. by 1-1 J lin., green, 
somewhat soft, very slightly rough all over including the margin. 
Inflorescence very scanty, of 3-2 very few-rayed tiers, rays simple, 
filiform, J-l in. long, arched or flexuous, glabrous. Spatheoles 
lanceolate, very long and finely acuminate, 1 to over 1J in. long, 
scarious, pale or tinged with olive-brown or lurid purple, glabrous, 
boat-shaped during flowering, then loosely inrolled upwards ; 
peduncles 4-6 lin. long, filiform, erect and enclosed in or arched 
and exserted from the spatheole, below the tips with a beard of 
yellowish tubercle-based spreading hairs up to 2 J lin. long. Racemes 
subcontiguous, laterally exserted, finally sharply epinastically de- 
flexed, about 5 lin. long, 2-5-awned per pair, pale reddish or olive- 
