70 CLxxiii. GRAMiN'E.E. (J. J). Hooker.) [Arundinella* 



5-7-nerved, narrowed into a long beak, III obtuse male, IV lanceolate 

 base pilose, median awn about ^ longer than the spikelet slender hardly 

 twisted. — Arundinella, Wall, Cat n, 8663 B. 



Tbava"NCOR; Pulney Mts. and CouTtaUnm, Wight, 



Stem 1-2 ft., branching from the base, slender. Leaves 3-4 by ^i in., base 

 narrowed; ligule obscure. Panicle 2-4 in., hirsute, brnnches ^-f in., sessile 

 (i.e. flowering to the base), rachis hairy ; spikelets distichonsly spreading. Gl. I 

 hardly awned, ovate; II about i louger, lanceolate; III glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong; lY not seen ripe, base bearded. 



4. A. nervosa f Nees in Wall. Cat. n, 8662; annual, leaves narrow, 

 Boftly hairy with spreading hairs, p.micle much branched, branches capil- 

 lary laxly many-fld., spikelets ^ in. pedicelled, gl. I acuminate 3-nerved, 

 11 nearly twice as long 5-nerved narrowed into a long straight beak, lU 

 obtuse, IV ovate-lanceolate scaberulons, median awn slender. Steud, Sy^* 

 Gram. 115; Wiffht Cat. n. 2387, 1669 a fi y. Holcus nervosus, Boxb. 

 €.v Wight Cat. n. 1669 {non Roxb. FL Ind.) Ischaemura melicoides, Kaei'h* 

 ms in Herb. Wight, Andropogon hirsutam & scoparium, Heyne in Serb* 

 JloftL Agnstis scoparia, Koen. ex Steud, I, c, Anemagrostis Neesiana) 

 Wight ^ Am, e.r Steud. I, c. — Anmdinella, Wall. Cat n. 8G65. 



SouTHEKN Deccan Pkninsula ; Heyne, Wight, &c. 



Stem 12-18 ill., slender, branched from the base. Leaves 4-8 by ^-J in., abd 

 sheaths usaally copiously hairy on both surfaces with long white spreading hairs, 

 base narrow ; ligule membrauous, ciliate. Fanicle 6-10 in.; branches 2-4 iHm 

 fascicled and whorled, erect, fiexuous, smooth, glabrous, ISfikeleta suberect, glabrous 

 or nerves of gl. I uud II more or less setose ; gl. Ill neuter or male; IV slightly 

 bearded at the base, median awn more or less twisted at the very slender h^^*'^ 

 Wight's /3 hiTioT (Cat. 1669 6) is only a slender form.—Lisboa {in Journ. Bmi- 

 Nat, Hist. Soc. V. (1891) 344) gives Concan, Coroinandel and Ceylon as habitats, 

 but without seeing specimens it is not safe to cite an authority in so difficult * 

 genus. A. nervosa, Dutliie Grass. N,'W,Ind. 13, from the Himalaya is probably 

 one of the forms of hrasiliensis, 



5. Ai setosa, Trin. Diss. ii. 63, Payne. Gen, 245 ; perennial, tall» 

 leaves usually narrow, panicle 6-12 in., branches subsolitary slender erect 

 laxly many-fld., spikelets i-J in. subsecund pedicelled, gl. I and II aris- 

 lately acuminate glabrous or setose, I = |~| H 3-nerved, II elongate 

 lanceolate 5-nerved, 111 shorter obtuse or subacute 5-7-nerved, IV = ^ ^y 

 lanceolate scaberulons. Steud. Syn, Gram. 114; Duthie Grass. iV.TT. J^^' 

 1:3. A. hir«uta, Xees ex Steud. l.c, 115, ^ Ilochst in Holien. PI Ind. Of' 

 n. 920. A. setifern, Stend. l.c. 115, A. stricta, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 ii. (1800) 102 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs, Bomb. FL 292. Milium ciraicinoides, Boxb. 

 mss. — PArundinaria sp. nov. Lisboa in Journ. Bomb, Nat Hist. iSoc ^• 



(1891)343. 



Wallich *^' 



Westeen HiMAiATA; alt. 5-8000 ft., from Dalhousie to Nepal, Wallich&'^' 

 KuAsiA Hills, alt. 3-6000 ft. Behar, on the Soane river, J.D.H, CfiNTB^*' 

 India, Clarke. Nilghihi Hills, alt. 6000 ft., Schmidt, &c. CeyloN ; at TnO' 

 conialee, Ferguson, — Distbib. Tonkin, China, Philippines. 



Stfims densely tufted ou a hard rootstock, 1-3 ft., stout or slender, leafy. I^^^f^ 

 6-10 in,, convolute, glabrous pubescent or villous; ligule obscure. Panicle 2-^^^'* 

 sometimes coryuibiform ; branches 2-5 in., usually naked below. Spikelets oX^^ 

 in ]airs, pedicels witli sometimes a few hairs near the tip. Median awn of gl- *. 

 about as long ag the spikelet.— The name hirsuta is attached to a specimen in U^^^' 

 Hoyle, 80 uauied no doubt by Nees. 



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