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clvii. GRAMiNEiE (Stapf). [ Hyparrhenia . 
similar to the pedicelled bat muticous. — H. coleotricha, Schweinf. & 
Aschers.in Schweinf. l.c. Andropogon comosus, Hochst. ex A. Rich. 
Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 461 ; not of Spreng. Andropogon coleotrichus, 
Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 386 ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 642 ; 
Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 708. A. anthistirioides, var. 
procera, Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot* Roma, viii. 289. 
Nile Land. Eritrea : Dembelas ; near Ferfer, Pappi, 6130 ! Ocule Cusai ; 
along the Tserina and Belasa Torrents, 5200 ft., Pappi, 1814 ; on Mount Metaten, 
8000 ft., Pappi, 1506; and by the Aini Torrent, 6000 ft., Pappi, 1869. Abys- 
sinia : without precise locality, Schimper, 1458 ! 
(^V4ckrrvA>-, 
43. H. bracteata A Stapf. Perennial, densely tufted, up to over 
6 ft. high, with intra- and extravaginal innovations. Culms rather 
stout below, to over 24 lin. in diam., terete, glabrous or the lower 
internodes glabrous to villous in the upper part, simple and 4-6- 
noded below the panicle. Leaf-sheaths firm, terete or keeled up- 
wards, the lower at length slipping off the culm, and then more or 
less folded or involute, hirsute or villous all over or at least in the 
upper part ; ligules scarious, truncate, not much over 4 lin. long, 
reddish ; blades linear from a gradually attenuated base, tapering 
to a fine point, 2 ft. by 1-2 lin., very rigid, glaucescent, ultimately 
often reddish or brown with frequently recurved margins, more or 
less villous on the underside and bearded behind the ligule, other- 
wise glabrous, rough above in the upper part, very scabrid on and 
along the margins, midrib rather slender and prominent below or 
somewhat stout basewards, much broader and whitish on the upper 
side, lateral nerves numerous, slender and close, prominent above. 
Spatheate panicle decompound, narrow, rather dense, up to over 
1J ft. high, consisting of 1-2 long flowering branches undivided at 
the base and 6-8 mostly mixed and upwards approximate tiers ; 
lowest branches and compound rays up to over 1 ft. long, with 
very long basal internodes, 3-4-noded, bearing secondary and tertiary 
tiers, tiers rarely more than 4-rayed, crowded together, ultimate 
rays about 4 in. long ; lower subtending leaves resembling the 
preceding ones, the upper more spathaceous with rapidly shortening 
blades, their sheath-portions hirsute to villous. Spatheoles linear- 
lanceolate, acutely acuminate, f-1 in. by J-f lin., scarious, reddish 
or brown, loosely to rather densely and appressedly hirsute, at length 
loosely convolute below ; peduncles very slender, filiform, arching 
or recurved above, at length often more or less straightened out and 
equalling or almost equalling the spatheoles, with fine spreading 
whitish or yellowish tubercle-based hairs about 1| lin. long from the 
upper part. Racemes subcontiguous or more or less spreading and 
finally epinastically reflexed, reddish to dark brown, 4-6 lin. long, 
2-4-awned per pair ; bases short, densely bearded with hairs like 
those of the peduncle, produced into a broad-oblong 2-dentate 
purple scarious appendage, up to almost 1 lin. long ; joints 
