72 CLxxni. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D, Hooker.) [Arundinella. 



pubverticniately fascicled, each with widely spreading capillary branches and brancb- 

 k'tp, Spikeleis the smallest of the gonus, usually shorter thaa their capillary 

 pedicels ; gl. lY scabrid above; column of awn slightly twisted. 



9. A, pygrxnea, JIoo^./. ; annual, very small, slender, leaves chiefly 

 radical narrow hispidly hairy nerveless except the midrib margins serru- 

 late, panicle erect effuse, branches few capillary, spikelets few y^in, setose, 

 gl. 1 =: § II ovate acute 3-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate 5- 

 nerved, III obtuse obscurely 5-nerved, IV oblong truncate, awn twice as 

 long as the spikelet. 



NoExn Canara, Lishoa. 



^VLole plaut 6 inches high and very slender.— Closely allied to ^. /enelZa, but 

 very much smaller, with very slender stenij narrow chiufly radical leaves l-li in. by 

 -^ in., sparsely clothed with long bristles, and a very sparingly divided panicle with 

 few largtr spikelets on very long capillary pedicel-^. — -The specimens are very poor, 

 and the character given may hence require modification. 



10. A. Metzii, ^oc^s^. ex 3fiq. in Verh. Ned. Inst III Iv. (1851) 31; 

 tall, glabrous, leaves linear, panicle 3-10 in. effuse erect or inclined branches 

 alternate or fascicled elongate, spikelets y2"to i^- subsecund, long or short 

 pedicelled glabrous or sparsely setulose, gl. 1 = | 11 ovate acuminate 3- 

 nerved, II ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III acute 5-7-nerved, IV 

 oblong truncate obtuse or retuse scaberulous, awn about twice as loi^ ^^ 

 ttie spikelet. Stcud, Syn. Oram, 116 iexcL Sun. Hoxb.): Hochst 

 Jlohenack. n. 257. A, agrostoidea, 

 4' T. Agrostis fusca, Setjne ex Wc 

 nella, WalL Ca/f. n. 8668. 



NiLOuiRi Hills; the Wynaad,'Hei/ne. The Concan and Canara, Law, Meth 

 Thomson, Woodrow, &c. 



Annual? 1-3 fi. high. Leaves 4-6 by J-J in., scaberulous and sheath more or 

 IcFS hairy or glabrous. Panicle 1-8 in.; racliis slender, smooth or subscaberulous; 

 branches 1-4 in., uniformly flowering. Spikelets green or purplish, solitary or 2-nate, 

 longpr or shorter than their pedicels which are sometinies ^ in. long; gl. I nerves 

 sometimes scabrid ; IV very ohsciuely bearded at the base, awn straight. — Hohen* 

 acker's specimens appear to he annual, Heyne's have a suiall hard rootstock. T"is 

 is certainly not Roxburgh's Holcus nervosus, whicli Steudel cites for it. The panicle 

 varies greatly in length, bveadth and composition ; in small specimens it is short and 

 triangular with spreading nearly simple branches, in taller it is more effuse witn 

 long flexuous branches and much longer pedicels, 



ft Spikelets moi*e than y^y m. lonff, 



11. A. villosa, Arn, €X*Sieud, Syn. Gram. 115; stems tufted villous 

 below the very narrow panicle, rachia villous, branches spiciform short 

 simple hirsute, spikelets ^-} in. secund crowded setosely hirsute, gl. ^ ^^t 

 II ovate acuminate 3-5-nerved, II snbaristately acunainate 5-nerved, Ill- 

 acute 5-nerved neuter or male, IV oblong-lanceolate very minutely 

 scaberulous, awn not twice^as long as the spikelet. T/iw. Enum. PI* Zeyl' 

 302; Trim. Cat, Ceyl PL 106. 



Eastern Himalata, the Khasia Hills, Central India, the Deccaw Penii^* 

 STTLA (t Ceylon. 



Herb, Ind, Or. Bf* 

 Rottler.—Aruadi' 



or erect; column of awn included twisted.— Nees, according to Stendel, descv ^ 

 gl. IV. as 2 -toothed. I Eud it to be ^usually rounded at the ti^^ but 2-toothed lO 





