361 
Hyparrhenia.] clvii. geamine^e (Stapf). 
between the fertile spikelets filiform, truncate, 1 lin. long, very 
densely ciliate on one side all along, much less so and only 
downwards on the other; pedicels finely filiform, equally and 
shortly ciliate on both sides, slightly longer than the joints. 
Homogamous pair of spikelets 1 at the base of the lower raceme 
only. Fertile spikelets narrowly linear-oblong, obscurely acuminate, 
including the callus 2J lin. long, fuscescent, glabrous ; callus acute, 
§-§ lin. long, shortly white-bearded. Glumes equal, chartaceous ; 
the lower 2-denticulate with broadly rounded sides, 7-nerved, the 
middle nerve raised between 2 fine grooves, margins involute below 
the tips, keels very fine, rigidly ciliolate or scabrid ; upper glume 
minutely mucronulate, 3-nerved. Lower floret reduced to a narrow 
linear-oblong sub-2-nerved reversedly ciliate hyaline valve, 1J lin. 
long. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, with 2 small subulate 
hyaline teeth ; awn very slender, 8-10 lin. long, column finely fulvo- 
pubescent ; valvule 0. Anthers almost 1 lin. long. Pedicelled 
spikelets $ or neuter (?), linear-lanceolate, 2-3 lin. long, acute, 
mostly mucronate or very shortly aristulate, dark purple or blackish- 
brown, glabrous ; lower glume 9-nerved, scabrid on the keels ; 
upper slightly shorter, 3-nerved, ciliate upwards ; valves hyaline, 
reversedly ciliate, up to over 1J lin. long, lower acute, upper 2-lobed 
with subulate acute lobes ; anthers about 1 lin. long. — H. foliosa, 
Anderss. ex Fourn. PI. Mex. Gram. 67. H. sp ., Anderss. in Nov. 
Act. B. Soc. Sc. Upsal. ser. 3, ii 254. Androyo gon bracteatus , Humb. 
& Bonpl. ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 914 ; Hack, in Mart. & Eichler, FI. 
Bras. ii. iii. 279, t. 64, and in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 643 ; Durand 
& Schinz, Etudes FI. Congo, 315 ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. 
Congol. 624 ; Nash in North Amer. FI. xvii. 123. A. trachypus, 
Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. 6me ser. ii. 280. Cymbopogon Hum- 
boldtii , Spreng. Pug. ii. 15 ; Bendle in Cat. Afr. PL Welw. ii. 159. 
C. reflexus and C.foliosus, Boem. & Schult. Syst. ii. 834, 835. Anthis- 
tiria reflexci and A. foliosa, H.B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 191 ; Kunth, 
Enum. i. 482 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 402. A. Humboldtii, Nees, 
Agrost. Bras. 369. A. pilosa, Presl in C. B. Presl, Bel. Haenck. i. 
348 ; Steud. l.c., 402. A. andropogonoides, Steud. l.c. Sorgum 
bracteatum, O. Kuntze, Bev. Gen. PI. ii. 791. 
Lower Guinea. Belgian Congo : Stanley Pool district ; Kisantu, Gillet, 918 ! 
Angola : Pango Andongo ; Candumba, Welwitsch, 1758 ! Benguella ; Country 
of Ganguellas and Ambuellas, rare, along the marshes of the River Cambamhe, 
Gossweiler, 2598 ! in a marsh near Munongue. Gossweiler, 3124 ! Cuito, in 
marshes, Gossweiler, 2577 ! Kubango; moist meadows near Fort Princeza 
Amelia, Gossweiler, 3924 ! 3925 ! Mossamedes ; Huilla, Lake Ivantala, in 
wooded places, Welwitsch, 7513 ! Monino, Welwitsch, 7514 ! damp meadows 
between Monino and Lake Ivantala, common, Welwitsch, 7512! between 
Lopollo and Monino, Welwitsch, 2657 ! 
^ 44 . H. Lecomtei^^toj?/. Perennial, over 4 ft. high (base not 
known). Culms moderately stout, erect, terete, quite glabrous, 
