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clvii. gramine^: (Stapf). \Hyparrhenia. 
Zentr.-Afr. Exped. ii. 44 * Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 295 ; 
not of Hack. A. lepidus , Hack, in DO. Monogr. Phan. vi. 625, partly ; 
K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 98 ; Chiov. in Istit. Bot. Roma, 
viii. 26, 288 (partly ?) ; var. Tarnba, Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 
ii. App. ii. 15, 94. Cymbopogon elegans, Spreng., Pug. PL Nov. ii. 
14 ; Roem. & Schult. Syst. Yeg. ii. 833 ; Rendle in Oat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. ii. 157, and in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot., xl. 227. C. cym- 
barius, T. Thoms, in Speke, Nile, App. 652 (name) ; Rendle in Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Bot., xxxviii. 241. Anthistena cymbaria , Trin. Androp. 
in Mem. Acad. Petersb., 6me ser. ii. (1833), 323 ; Steud. Syn. Pl. 
Glum. i. 399 ; not of Roxb. Anmmtiria latifolia , Anderss. in 
Peters, Reise Mossamb. Bot. ii. 562. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bambuto range, 5000 ft., Unwin, 221 ! 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Amasen ; Mount Savour, 3300-5900 ft., Pappi, 79 ! 
5404, 5605 ! Mount Faghenat, 6550-8200 ft., Pappi, 5324. Mensa ; Adinalai- 
Maldi, 6200ft., Terracciano 6a Pappi, 1506 : Dada, 4600ft., Terracciano 6s Pappi. 
2060, 2067. Mount Bizen, 6550 ft., Schweinfurth 6a Riva, 2027 ! Niamniam : 
by the Atasilli brook near Rikkete’s, Schweinfurth, 3058! Uganda : Gani ; 
south of Lado, very common, Speke 6a Grant ! Ruwenzori, 5300 ft., Scott 
Elliot , 7607 ! 7613 ! 7000 ft., Wollaston ! Entebbe, 3900 ft., Brown, 1 ! Fyffe, 
3 ! Mabira Forest, Ussher, 39 ! Kipayo, 4000 ft ., Bummer, 2410 ! Banda, on 
grassy hill tops, 4000 ft., Bummer, 436 ! Kinerema, 4000 ft. Bummer, 92 ! 
Nyanza Basin, 3000-4000 ft., Battiscombe, 492 ! Maitland, 131 ! Nandi ; 
Sibu, James ! Mau, 7000 ft., Scott Elliot, 6898 ! British East Africa : Nairobi, 
Bowson, 318 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto ; woods of Monte de Queta, Wel- 
witsch, 7300! near Ndele and Cacarambola, Welwitsch, 297 4 ! Benguella ; 
covering large tracts of moist ground along the River Songue, Gossweiler , 
1714 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Usambara ; Heboma, Heist, 
2551. Kilimanjaro, 6000 it., Johnson, 111 ! Marangu, 4600-6500 ft., Volkens, 
644 ! Taylor ! Kwangowe, 4750 ft., Volkens, 341 ! 350 ! plains of Arusha 
Jini and Kahe, 3000 ft., Taylor ! Portuguese East Africa : Mbame, 4000 ft., 
Kirk ! Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 37 ! Namasi, Cameron , 18 ! 
Mwanemba Mountain, 5000 ft., McClounie, 22 ! Kondowe to Karonga, 
2000-6000 ft., Whyte \ and without precise locality, Beschampsl Buchanan , 
680! 1434! Rhodesia: Victoria, Monro, 1991! Gazaland: near Nyahodi 
River, 4000 ft., Swynnerton, 1675 ! 
Also in the Comoro Islands and in Madagascar. 
The specimen in Rottler’s Herbarium written up as Andropogon cymbarium 
evidently a co-type, was probably collected in the Comoro Islands. 
24. H. variabilis, Stapf. Perennial, 24-7 ft. high, with extra- 
vaginal innovations, their cataphylls firm, white-tomentose. Culms 
erect, rather slender to stout, 5-6- (or more- ?) noded, and with or 
without mixed branches below the panicle. Leaf-sheaths glabrous, 
or the lower hirsute and bearded at the mouth, the lowest longer 
than the internodes, at length inrolled and slipping from the culm ; 
ligules firm, scarious, rounded, up to 1 lin. long ; blades linear, 
gradually narrowed downwards, almost semi-amplexicaul or at 
least suddenly constricted at the base, long-tapering to a fine point, 
over 1 ft. by up to 6 lin., rather firm, flat, pale green, glabrous, 
