Hyparrhenia.] clvii. geamine^e (Stapf). 373 
long, s carious, glabrous, smooth, dark reddish ; peduncles filiform, 
glabrous, about half as long as the spatheoles. Racemes dense, 
soon spreading, at length epinastically reflexed, glabrous, reddish- 
green, about | in. long, 3-5-awned per pair ; bases unequal, 
the lower very short, the upper linear-filiform, dorsally flattened, 
up to 1 lin. long, both pubescent in the fork, otherwise 
glabrous ; joints filiform, up to 1 J lin. long, white-ciliate, cilia 
short ; pedicels very similar. Homogamous pair of spike! ets 
1 at the base of the lower raceme only. Fertile spikelets oblong, 
acuminate, 3-3J lin. long, glabrous, dark green ; callus very short, 
obtuse, shortly bearded. Glumes equal, chartaceous ; the lower 
rather firm, 2-denticulate, flattened on the back, rounded on the 
sides, margins very narrowly involute to beyond the middle, then 
rather sharply inflexed, keels very fine, scaberulous, nerves 9-11, 
somewhat stout and raised ; upper glume deltoid-truncate, 3-nerved, 
sparingly ciliolate. Lower floret reduced to a linear-oblong obscurely 
2-nerved minutely and sparingly ciliolate hyaline valve. Upper 
floret ^ : valve stipitiform, 2-dentate, eciliate, awn 9-10 lin. long, 
slender, column scabrid ; valvule 0. Pedicelled spikelets 
linear-lanceolate, glabrous, dark dull red ; lower glume subcoria- 
ceous, about 9-nerved, very acute ; upper slightly shorter, acutely 
acuminate, chartaceous, 3-nerved ; valves narrowly oblong or lan- 
ceolate, hyaline, very obscurely ciliolate, the lower 3-1-, the upper 
1-nerved. Homogamous spikelets like the pedicelled member of 
the heterogamous pair. — Andro poaon glabriusculus. Hochst. ex A. 
Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. -16S ; Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 
616 ; Durand & Schinz, Consp. FI. Afr. v. 713. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Tigre ; Shire Plateau, Schimper, 1805 ! 
1/ 53. H. andongensis^ Stapf. Perennial, about 2J ft. high, with 
a creeping branched rhizome and extravaginal innovations, their 
cataphylls very short, firm, glabrous. Culms slender, wiry, many- 
noded, branched all along, branches gathered upwards in fascicles, 
internodes terete or somewhat compressed upwards, glabrous and 
smooth. Leaf-sheaths rather loose, mostly longer than the inter- 
nodes, often slipping off the culms and exposing the nodes, terete, 
loosely hirsute with the hairs tubercle-based and spreading, the 
lowest finally decaying leaving the culm-leaves more or less bare ; 
ligules scarious, oblong, glabrous, up to 1 \ lin. long ; blades narrowly 
linear from an equally wide or downwards narrowed base, tapering 
to a setaceous point up to 9 in. by 1-2 (rarely 2J) lin., flat, flexuous, 
more or less re volute along the margins when drying up, minutely 
puberal ous and more or less rough above or beset with spreading 
tubercle-based hairs towards the base, glabrous below, midrib slender 
below, much broader and whitish below towards the base. Spatheate 
panicle up to over 1 ft. long, narrow, interrupted, very lax ; internodes 
5-6, very gradually decreasing upwards, 3-2 in. long ; primary branches 
