Hyparrhenia.\ clvii. gramineje (Stapf). 
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glabrous, smooth, strongly striate, terete, produced at the mouth into 
a short triangular auricle ; ligules scarious, truncate, adnate to the 
auricles of the sheath ; blades linear from an almost equally wide 
base, acutely acuminate, 2-6 in. by §-l lin., green, soft, rough above 
and on the margins', much less so underneath ; midrib and lateral 
nerves slender. Inflorescence reduced to a terminal pair of racemes 
or a terminal 2-rayed tier, uppermost internode or rays slender, 
filiform, 14-3 in. long, erect, subflexuous, glabrous. Spatheoles 
lanceolate, long and finely acuminate, about 3 in. long, scarious 
to thinly subherbaceous, pale-greenish or straw-coloured, glabrous, 
soon loosely inrolled from the margins ; peduncles If to over 2 in. 
long, hairy towards the tips, hairs fine, hardly tubercle-based, 
yellowish, under 2 lin. long. Racemes subcontiguous, laterally 
exserted from the spatheole and more or less recurved and nodding 
but not epinastically deflexed, 5-6 lin. long, pale green, 4-7- 
awned per pair : bases short, somewhat stout, pubescent, hirsute 
on the inner side, indistinctly articulate ; joints linear, about 
1 lin. long, obliquely truncate, very densely ciliate, cilia on one 
side up to 1 lin. long, on the other side shorter ; pedicels similar, 
somewhat longer and more slender. Homogamous pairs of spike- 
lets 1 or 2 at the base of each raceme, forming an imperfect in- 
volucre. Fertile spikelets subl inear, 4 lin. long including the callus, 
rounded on the sides and slightly flattened and turning brown along 
the middle of the back ; callus acute, 2 lin. long, shortly and densely 
bearded. Glumes equal, firmly chartaceous ; lower mucronate, 
hispidulous all over, 9-nerved, middle nerve much shorter than the 
nearest 2 inner nerves which join the outer just below the mucro, 
margins involute, keels obscure ; upper glume obliquely truncate, 
mucronulate, hispidulous upwards, turning dark brown below the 
middle. Lower floret reduced to a narrow oblong faintly 2-nerved 
sparingly ciliate hyaline valve. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, 
firm, edentate ; awn robust, stout, 2J-3 in. long, column dark brown, 
fulvously hirtellous, bristle slightly paler. Pedicelled spikelets neuter, 
narrowly lanceolate, 3-3J lin. long; lower glume thin, produced 
into a short mucro, 9-11-nerved, nerves slender, slightly prominent, 
keels spinulously ciliate ; upper glume slightly shorter, mucronulate, 
3-nerved, ciliolate ; . valves if present hyaline, linear-oblong, lower 
up to 3 lin. long, 1-nerved or like the upper more or less reduced. 
Homogamous spikelets similar to the pedicelled, up to 5 lin. long, 
neuter or g ; anthers 1J lin. long. — Anthistiria multiplex , Hochst. 
ex A. Rich. Tent. FI. Abyss, ii. 449 ; Steud. Syn. PI. Glum. i. 400. 
Andropogon multiplex , Hack, in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 631. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia : Sana ; mountains of the Bahara district, Schimper, 
1637 ! Samen ; Debra Eski, towards Woina, 8000 ft., Schimper, 804 ! 
Var. leiopoda, Stapf. Peduncles minutely pubescent or glabrous ; raceme- 
bases glabrous or at least never hirsute, each raceme with only 1 or 2 hetero- 
gamous pairs of spikelets 
