Arundinella.] clxxiii. gramineje. (J. D. Hooker.) 69 



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Ail equalliag I or rather longer, oblong, subacute or narrowly tmncate 5- 

 or /-nerved, paleate, triandrous or neuter; IV mucb the smallest, bisexual, 

 rticulate at the base and deciduous, membranous and oblong in flower, 

 aneeolate subcoriaceous and scaberulous when mature, andawnless or with 

 one terminal subgeniculate awn more or less twisted at the base, and with 

 ^ometimeg 2 latera.1 shorter capillary awns ; base usually bearded. Anthers 

 al^Tv ^y^^^^^^^^^ or connate below; stigmas long. Grain free within 



gl. IV. 



102^ TnfiQ ^ ^^''^^^ ^^^^^' referred by Baillon (Bull. See. Linn. Paris (1893) 



with H 1 ^^ ^^ Panicum, from which it differs in the inarticulate spikelets 



manv r • ^^'" ^^' ^^ articulate at the base, as also in gh IV being awned in 

 tion th P*^**'*"^ bearded at the base. The species are most difficult of determinu- 

 cifDt m f^^^^**^^^r especially, which have not been so collected as to provide suffi- 

 afforded bth ^^^ satisfactory study. I greatly doubt the value of the characters 



awns. 



Jl^ee* ?^* "^^ ^^*^^ ^ ^^^®' ^^^ lateral short, capillary. (mLiosACCHAEUM, 



ee*.) 



leaves ol V^^^^P^^9 Munro ex Thw. Enum. Pi Zeyl. 362 ; annual, 

 gl laTi^TT '^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^- ^'^^^^d compact, spikelets |-i in. subsessile, 

 awn flan ^'^^ed, III awaed acuminate, IV hispid or bearded, median 

 AV mZ^l ^^^ strongly twisted at the base. U^loa in Joum. Bomb, 

 li^boa r ^^' ^- (1891) 3i5 ; Trim, Gat Genl PL 106. A.Campbelliana, 



M r'J tinr^ -^^ena inalabarica, ^eywe ex Herb. iBo^^Z.— Arundinella ? 



III. ■ *■ ^6^0-~Aira, No. 3, Grif. Notul. iii. 65, Ic. PI. Asiat. 1. 146. f. 



mm 



»ni, *trom^\^^^' '" "^^^ P^^^e^' «^t. 3-4000 ft. Griffith, &c. Deccan Penin- 

 ^•fLoit in- <-oncan southward. Buuma: Pegu, Kurz; Moulmeiii, Griffith. 



A weik !f'"P','- "* R'»t"«Poora. Thtoaites. 

 ^^^Ix^us or -1 ^^''°e sleuder grass. Leaves 1-2 in., ovate-lanceolate, acute, 

 ''^"'e membrf, °^''' ** amplexicaul and subpectinately ciliate ; sheaths slender ; 

 ^'""^M I anH T' f'^"^*^^- Panicle pale green, branches short glabrous or hairy. 

 ^U longer ^n ^l*^^""^ hairy or with tubercled-based bristles; I 3-5-nerved ; 

 P l'near.oM "n^'' ' ^^^ **="^e or acuminate, 5.nerved, paleate, male or neuter; 

 ^'"i lateral f' '""'"^ "'' '^^^ ^I'^pidly pilose or with lateral beards, base with long 

 '^'''^let, genim,! ."^ trmngular nt the base, median about twice as long as the 



6=uicuiate abrtvo fV.„ *...:„..-,i .• 



S, 



\^A *^^ercul 



above the twisted portion. 



5-nerved narrowed to a Ion 



V^ CoNcAv p ' median awn slender twisted or not below. 

 . SUn i2_ig ;• ^°?°a' Stocks, &c. Centeal India, King. 



p': Leave, \ -l '.''^"*^« le'^vea and panicle clothed with white spreading st.fF 

 S""^* 3-6 in V '"•', ^'°<?ar.lanceolate, base rounded ; lignle a ridge of hairs. 

 In "'"'''' 8inB?e """°^^.y «''lo"S ; branches ^-1 in. , suberect, scaberulous Sp^kc 

 2^ I. narro? JT"''^*^' ^^"k of gl. II as long as the rest of the gl. ; HI as 

 ^*° «wn about t •''"'' ^-"'^'•^ed ; IV lanceolate, scabrid when npe, base pilose, 

 8. A '^^ ^^ ^*^"^ "^ ''^^ spikelet, lateral acicular. 



&* Oa?l®*JJ,^y"a, Nees ex Steud. Sm. aram. 115 ; Nees 8r Am. ex 



I'TJ^ct'es of ' r^ 5 annual, erect, pubescent or hirsute, leaves narrow, 

 ^"•^ate H^CiyT^^^ panicle spiciform short simple, spikelets sessile 



4-rauked bifarious, gl I. subawned 3-nerved, II rather longer 



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