343 
Hyparrhenia .] clvii. gramine^ (Stapf). 
Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. App. ii. 94 ; Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Boma, 
viii. 288. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Dembelas ; by the Messellem torrent (Upper Leito 
River), near Adi-Tschodoq, 7200 ft., Schweinfurth, 32. Sarae ; along the 
River Mareb, near Debaroa, 6200 ft., Pappi, 512. Abyssinia: Arba Fensa, 
near Gennia, Schimper, 921 ! Mount Sholoda, near Adowa, Schimper, 408, ! 
near Adowa, 1052 (a. 1838)! Uganda: Ruwenzori; Kasamaga, common at 
5300 ft., Scott Elliot, 7613 ! 
Mozambique Distr. German East Africa : Kilimanjaro ; Marangu, 4300 ft., 
Volkens, 534 ! 
The specimens referred by me to Andropogon Schimperi in Dyer, FI. Cap. 
vii. 357, do not belong to this species. 
30. H. elongata, Stapf. Perennial, 2-4 ft. high. Culms rising 
from a short oblique rhizome, often closely fascicled or accompanied 
by intravaginal innovations whose inner sheaths are covered with 
white hairs at the very base, terete, usually stout, glabrous, smooth, 
erect or geniculately ascending, usually stiff, simple for 3-5 inter- 
nodes below, the panicle. Leaf-sheaths terete, glabrous, pruinose 
below the nodes, rarely subhirsute upwards, smooth, firm, the lowest 
longer than the internodes, often slipping off the culm and then ? 
gradually breaking up, those of the innovations compressed and 
keeled upwards ; ligules scarious, firm, rounded, 1-2 lin. long ; blades 
linear from a more or less narrowed or almost equally wide base,/ 
which may be narrower than the sheath or pass quite gradually 
into it, long-tapering upwards to a fine point, up to over 1 ft. by 
up to 3 (rarely 4) lin., firm, rigid, pale or glaucous-green, glabrous or 
very sparingly hairy on the back or with some long stiff hairs above 
the ligule, smooth below, rough on the face upwards, margins 
scabrid, at least upwards, midrib comparatively slender, broader 
and whitish above, primary lateral nerves 3-5 on each side, slender. 
Spatheate panicle narrow, very lax, up to over 1 ft. long ; primary 
axis rather stiff, its 6-8 internodes gradually decreasing upwards 
(the lowest up to over -J ft. long) ; tiers few-rayed, the lower and inter- 
mediate mostly mixed, their compound rays up to 4-noded, up to 
over J ft. long and very slender ; secondary tiers usually reduced 
to a single ray ; ultimate rays 2-1 in. long, very slender, often finely 
filiform and arching upwards ; subtending leaves resembling the 
preceding ones, the upper with much reduced stiff blades or spathe- 
oloid. Spatheoles cymbiform, long-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 
1J-2 in. long, standing out more or less horizontally or nodding, 
scarious, reddish or purplish and slightly glaucous, glabrous, at 
length sometimes loosely inrolled from the margins ; ' peduncles 
filiform, at length 1-2 in. long, long-bearded upwards, hairs, whitish, 
about 2 lin. long, very fine, obscurely tubercle-based. Bacemes 
rather dense, usually more or less villous with white hairs, rarely 
glabrous except for the cilia of joints and pedicels, subcontiguous or 
slightly diverging, 6-12-awned per pair ; bases very short, obliquely 
