350 
clvii. gbamike/E (Stapf). [Hypanhenia. 
(no. 235) is evidently referable to this species with which it shares the general 
facies, but the racemes are divided, producing from the lower nodes secondary 
racemes with 3, 2, or 1 heterogamous pairs of spikelets. These compound 
racemes have each 2 pairs of homogamous spikelets at the base, which, like the 
following, are continued into secondary racemes. It is evidently a morbid 
condition due to insect action. 
^ 35. H. Lintonii, Stapf. Perennial, up to over 2 ft. high. Culms 
(base unknown) very slender, wiry, with vegetative or mixed (?) 
branches from below the panicle, terete, glabrous, smooth, inter- 
mediate internodes 5-3 in. long. Leaf-sheaths terete, glabrous, 
smooth, tight or those with branches in their axils slipping off the 
culm, shorter to much shorter than the internode ; ligules thinly 
scarious, very short, truncate, glabrous ; blades linear from an 
equally wide, more or less constricted and rounded base, tapering 
upwards to a very fine point, up to 4 in. by 1J-2 lin., glabrous, 
smooth except upwards on the face and the margins, tinged with 
purple or dull red, midrib very slender, primary lateral nerves 2-3 
on each side, fine below, lost among the numerous close secondary 
nerves above. Spatheate panicle very scanty and loose, up to 
over 1 ft. long ; primary inter nodes about 3 or sometimes only 2, 
the lowest 4-5 in. long ; tiers few-rayed, the lower or sometimes all 
reduced to a single ray ; lowest rays compound, 1-2-noded, their 
secondary tiers 1 -rayed ; ultimate (simple) rays filiform, erect, 
3-2 or the uppermost 1J in. long ; subtending leaves like the pre- 
ceding ones, the lower with relatively long blades, the uppermost 
spatheoloid. Spatheoles lanceolate, long and finely acuminate, 
2 to almost 3 in. long, subherbaceous, glabrous, smooth, at length 
reddish and narrowly inr oiled ; peduncles filiform, curved upwards, 
bearded below the tips (hairs stiff, yellowish, tubercle-based, up to 
over 2| lin. long), at length often straightened out and as long as the 
spatheole or permanently slightly shorter than it. Racemes dense, 
slightly diverging, at length epinastically deflexed, about 1 in. long, 
10-15-awned per pair, greyish- villous ; bases very short, pubescent 
in the fork and bearded like the peduncle, but beard upright, tips 
with a more or less distinct scarious dark auricle ; joints and pedicels 
filiform, up to over 1 lin. long, shortly white-ciliate. Homogamous 
pair of spikelets 1 at the base of the lower raceme only. Fertile spike- 
lets oblong tolanceolate-oblong, 2 J-3 lin. long, pale, usually tinged with 
purple downwards, tips mostly reddish ; callus cuneate, subacute, 
almost J lin. long, shortly bearded. Glumes equal, subchartaceous ; 
lower narrowly truncate, flattened on the back with rounded sides, 
sparingly hairy to villous (hairs very fine, white), faintly 7 -nerved, 
margins narrowly involute, then indexed near the tips, keels very 
fine, ciliolate ; upper glume truncate, minutely mucronulate, 3- 
nerved, reversedly ciliate. Lower floret reduced to a linear- 
oblong obtuse nerveless reversedly ciliate hyaline valve. Upper 
floret ^ : valve stipitiform, minutely 2-dentate, awn slender, 
