363 
Hyparrhenia.] clvii. gramineje (Stapf). 
valves hyaline, reversedly ciliate, up to over 2 J lin. long, lower linear- 
oblong, 3-nerved, the upper narrowly linear-cuneate, minutely emargi- 
nate. — Andropogon Lecomtei, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun, 
viii. 329 (reprint 21) ; Th. & Hel. Durand, Syll. FI. Congol. 625 ; 
Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 296 (?). Cymbopogon Lecomtei , 
Rendle in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xl. 227. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons: without precise locality, Unwin , 9149 ! 
Lower Guinea. French Congo : Kitabi, Leeomte, A 9 ! Belgian Congo : 
Cataracts Division; Lukungu, Hens, A 188 ! Stanley Pool Division; N’Lemfu, 
Butaye ! Kisantu, Gillet, 876 ! Oriental Province ; Kavala Islands in 
Lake Tanganyika, Carson ! 
Mozambique Distr. Nyasaland : Shire Highlands, Buchanan, 83 ! Gaza- 
land : Nyahodi River, 4000 ft., Swynnerton, 1660 ! Upper Buzi River, 3000- 
3500 ft., Swynnerton, 995 a ! 
Franchet quotes, probably by mistake, Hens 186, not 188, for the specimen 
from Lukungu. 
Also in North Madagascar {Baron, 5205 !). 
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v/ 45. H. Newtonii A Stapf. Perennial, densely csespitose, up to 
over 3 ft. high with numerous mostly intra vaginal innovations, cata- 
phylls of extra vaginal innovation-buds glabrous. Culms erect, 
terete or slightly compressed below, rather slender, simple and 
about 3-4-noded below the panicle. Leaf-sheaths terete or the lowest 
and those of the innovations compressed and keeled, very firm, 
glabrous or hairy, those of the culms produced at the mouth into 
short triangular auricles ; ligules from very short to 1 lin. long, 
scarious, truncate, adnate to the auricles of the sheath ; blades 
linear from a slightly and often long-attenuated base, long-tapering 
to a fine point, very firm and rigid or slightly flexuous, up to 1 ft. 
by 1-1 J lin., flat, pale green or turning reddish, softly hirsute to almost 
villous on both sides, scabrid along the margins, midrib slender and 
prominent below, wider and whitish towards the base above, lateral 
nerves numerous, very slender and close on the upper side, obscure 
on the lower. Spatheate panicle slender, loose, interrupted, up to 
1J ft. long, of 5-6 distant tiers, 2-4-rayed, mixed downwards or the 
lowest branch undivided, lowest compound rays up to over \ ft. long, 
few-noded ; simple rays 1-2 in. long, those of each tier subequal ; 
lower subtending leaves like the preceding ones, upper with much 
reduced blades, spatheoloid. Spatheoles narrowly lanceolate, long 
and finely acuminate, about 2 in. by 1-1 \ lin., scarious, pale purplish 
or reddish, glabrous or hairy at the base, at length inrolled from the 
margins and quite narrow ; peduncles arched or strongly recurved 
upwards and subterminally exserted, at length more or less equalling 
the spatheole, with fine spreading yellowish hairs (up to 3 lin. long) 
from the curvature, hairs minutely or obscurely tubercle-based. 
Racemes slightly spreading, at length epinastically reflexed, about 
j in. long, usually purplish, 2-awn ed per pair ; bases unequal, the 
longer up to 2 lin. long, both densely bearded with stiff yellowish 
