353 
Hyparrhenia.\ clvii. gramine^e (Stapf). 
2 lin. long, shortly and fulvously ciliate. Fertile spikelets linear- 
oblong, flattened on the back but rounded on the sides, including the 
callus 3J-4 lin. long, pale greenish, glabrous ; callus slender, very 
acute, 1 lin. long, very densely bearded, hairs fulvous to ferruginous, 
the upper exceeding the callos by its own length. Glumes equal, 
thinly chartaceous ; lower 2-dentate or 2-mucronulate, rough 
upwards, 9-nerved, nerves faint downwards, margins narrowly invo- 
lute, keels fine, short, scaberulous ; upper glume suddenly contracted 
into a fine mucro, J lin. long, 3-nerved, ciliate upwards. Lower 
floret reduced to a narrow linear-oblong nerveless reversedly ciliate 
hyaline valve. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, shortly 2- 
dentate ; awn to over 2 in. long, moderately stout, fulvously hir- 
tellous ; valvule 0. Pedicelled spikelets $ (?), linear-lanceolate, 
up to 5 lin. long, glabrous, purplish ; lower glume produced between 
two fine teeth or mucros into a fine bristle, up to 4 lin. long, thinly 
chartaceous, 9-nerved, keels scaberulous upwards ; upper glume 
membranous, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate ; valves hyaline, 1-nerved, 
reversedly ciliate, lower oblong, 4 lin. long, upper very narrow, 
cuneate -subulate. Homogamous spikelets similar to the pedicelled, 
but not aristulate. 
4” Nile Land. Abyssinia : 4t se g ua > 5000-6000 ft., Schimper, 748 ! 
38. H. confinis ,^Anderss. in Schweinf. Beitr. FI. Aethiop. 306. 
Annual, 3 or more ft. high. Culms erect, slender to stout, terete, 
glabrous, simple and 3-5-noded below the panicle. Leaf-sheaths 
terete, smooth, glabrous, produced at the mouth into triangular- 
ovate acute auricles ; ligules ovate, obtuse, scarious, glabrous, 
laterally adnate to the auricles of the sheath, up to over 3 lin. long ; 
blades linear from a more or less narrowed but not petioloid base, 
tapering to a long fine point, up to 2 ft. by 5 lin., somewhat flaccid, 
glabrous, smooth except on the scabrid to spinulously ciliate margins ; 
midrib slender or in large leaves stout downwards, primary lateral 
nerves 3-6 on each side, very fine. Spatheate panicle somewhat 
flaccid, leafy, of 6-8 mostly mixed distant or upwards approximate 
4- (rarely up to 7-) rayed tiers ; lower compound rays to over 1 ft. 
long and up to 6-noded, bearing secondary tiers only ; ultimate 
(simple) rays very slender, 1-1J in. or in the lowest tiers up to 4 in. 
long ; subtending leaves and spathes with well-developed blades 
often equalling the panicle. Spatheoles cymbiform-lanceolate, 
long and finely acuminate, 1J-2 in. by 1| lin., scarious, glabrous, 
pale reddish, at length inrolled from the margins and quite narrow ; 
peduncles slender, filiform, flexuous or recurved, upwards beset 
with fine spreading tubercle-based hairs up to over 3 lin. long, at 
length often straightened and equalling or only slightly shorter 
than the spatheoles. Racemes subcontiguous, more or less nodding, 
at length epinastically reflexed, up to 10 lin. long, pale reddish or 
brownish, 2-awned per pair ; bases subequal, not over \ lin. long, 
pubescent in the fork, setosely bearded like the peduncle, produced 
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