Hyjpanhenia .] clvii. gramine,® (Stapf). 
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tip, produced into a bristle, up to over 3 lin. long, 3-nerved, eciliate, 
more or less puberulous on the back. Lower floret reduced to a 
linear-oblong obtuse 2- nerved ciliate hyaline valve almost as long 
as the glumes. Upper floret ^ : valve stipitiform, with 2 short 
hyaline teeth, awn very stout, up to over 5 in. long, fulvous ; column 
shortly hirtellous ; anthers 1J lin. long. Pedicelled spikelets $ or 
neuter, more or less involute or almost folded, flattened out, broadly 
lanceolate, long-acuminate, f-1 in. long, glabrous, reddish ; lower 
glume produced into a bristle up to 3 lin. long, very closely many- 
nerved, keels rigidly ciliolate ; upper glume subulate-lanceolate, 
setaceously acuminate, 5-nerved, the submarginal nerves very firm, 
ciliate, lower 3-nerved, upper 1 -nerved, almost as long as the glumes 
or more or less reduced. Homogamous spikelets broad-lanceolate, 
6-7 lin. long, muticous, otherwise like the pedicelled, if not the 
glumes more scarious. — Androyo gon Cornucoyice, Hack, in Flora, 
1885, 126, and in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 646 ; Durand & Schinz, 
Consp. FI. Afr. v. 710. 
Nile Land. Jur : Ghattas’ Great Seriba, Schweinfurtk, 2331 ! 
/ 58. H. (?) pusilfa^&tap/.^ Annual, up to J ft. high. Culms slender, 
erect or ascending, 6- or more-noded, simple or tufted at the base, 
flowering from the upper 2 or 3 nodes, glabrous, compressed, smooth, 
lower internodes short to very short, upper elongated and more or 
less exserted. Leaf-sheaths loose, keeled, more or less hirsute (at 
least upwards) with tubercle-based hairs, lower often purple ; ligules 
very short, truncate, fimbriate ; blades linear from a slightly rounded 
base, acutely acuminate, f-l| in. long, up to 1| lin. wide, green 
hirsute, midrib slender, lateral primary nerves 2-3 on each side, 
very fine ; inflorescence reduced to 2 or 3 distant raceme-pairs, 
borne on filiform rays, 1-2 in. long, subtending leaves with more or 
less spatheaceous sheaths and small blades or the uppermost spathe- 
oloid. Spatheoles narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, lj-lf in. long, some- 
times with a rudimentary blade, glabrous, suffused with purple, at 
length slightly inrolled ; peduncles finely filiform, f-l£ in. long, 
glabrous. Racemes subcontiguous, laterally exserted from and at 
a right angle to the spatheole, at length epinastically reflexed, about 
| in. long, 4-7-awned per pair, greenish, glabrous except for the 
joints and pedicels, the lower usually subsessile, the upper with a 
slender short more or less hairy base ; joints slender filiform, with a 
transparent median line, shortly and densely ciliate, 1 J lin. long, tips 
truncate ; pedicels very similar but slightly shorter. Homogamous 
pair of neuter spikelets 1 at the base of the lower raceme only. 
Fertile spikelets oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, including the callus 
2J-3 lin. long, greenish or tinged with purple ; callus subobtuse, 
densely bearded, beard up to 1 lin. long. Glumes subequal ; lower 
2-denticulate, thinly herbaceous, chartaceous, somewhat rounded 
on the back, glabrous and very smooth, usually with a shallow 
