AmndimUa.] CLXXrii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) ' 75 



8665^A^^^^^^^^ capillarls, Herb. JJe?/«e.— Aruadinella sp., Wall Cat n. 

 The DsccAN, H^yne. Pulney Hills, Herh. Wight (u. 3338). 



W I l^^^^ ^'^^" ^ tuberous rhizome which is clothed with the wooliy bases of 

 aNsheaths. Leases 6-12 by i-^ in., acuminate, base rather narrow ; upper sheaths 



P'HDrous; hgule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 5-7 in., flexuotts; rachis fiHforni, hcaberu- 

 0U8; branches few, 4-6 in., naked below except a solitary long-pedicelled axillary 

 / eet; pedicels capillary.— An obscure plant. Nees describes the leaves as with 



sSrii^f ^""^ "^^^^^^ spikelets. ''Lisboa""(JournrBmnb7'Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1890) 

 1 JnLl^^ *««^^ca as a common plant all over Bombay, but without seeiog specimens 

 ^ ^'innot confirm this. 



raaici ff* ^^**flora, Rook. / ; very slender, glabrous, leaves narrow, 

 or t},^ y^^^y branches spreading capillary solitary alternate or opposite 

 shorter il^^^^^"^'^^^^^^' branchlets spreading, spikelets ^-^ in. solitary 

 U ov/f 1 ^^^ capillary pedicels, gl. I = f II ovate acuminate 3-nerved, 

 than J iV 1 r^'"^*^ 5^nerved, III longer than I oblong acute, IV longer 

 uervn^a Vi "^'^^^^^^late scaberulous, awn or shortly exserted. A. 

 ^«8a, ihtv^ Enum. PL Zeyl 362 ie.xl Syn.) ; Trim, Cat CeyL Ft 106, 



»"t ; coin ''';' ^''■'^^''- <^'- 1 >^cabrid on the keel or not ; IV bearded at the base or 

 •piktU an^ -^^ '^ ^'''''*«=*^— 'i'^e open panicle with long capillary pedicels of the 

 ^"« sneoi!,? T)^^ "'"""^^ gl- III which is i longer than I, characterize this species, 

 V "men {Gardner, u. 1007) bus no trace of an awn. 



-^wn 0, or very short and hardly exserted (see also A. lax'ifiora). 



«••ect■Dtn^T*^"*'**""^'''S^«^•^ Steud. Smu Oram. lU; perennial, stou^ 

 «orm •,^\''°^^*^ contracted strict, branches \-l\ in. stout stiff 

 «oat1v^./P,, ^'^'^ 3^4-8eriate ovoid secund densely imbricate very 

 ^'I d^lS. ^}^^ ^'^^««^' ^1- I nearly = II ovate acute 3-5-nerved, 

 ^orvervi <^^ 6-nerved, IV ovoid subacute nearly smooth, awn 

 ^^^■W\^^i- ■P"^'''»« G!ra*-e. NAV. Ind. 13. Panicum strictum. Boxh 



Py anudale, 13? Herh. Ham. e/wJl. Cat. u. SrOC-Fanicum, Wall Cat. 



Tfio- """^'^^I'a ? W"""^*^. CVif. n. 8669. 



1-6000 ft. 

 in Hills, 



^'•'^AL 15k„ .^^•'^"^A ; ou t^'-y banks from Simla to Sikkiir, alt. l-< 

 -'''"'deu-.i"* '"''^^HAsiA, Naoa anJ Satpura Hills. Bukjia ; Slu 



«<ew 1 o "'^IB- Tonkin, 

 r'- iear".! V ! o""" " ^«"Jy creeping or tufted hard rhizome ; nodes bearded or 

 n"=*"'ate J,f:^^ ^y i-? '»-, Hll radical i.i smuU forms, glabrous hairy or v.llous 

 ,^«^"Vi. , :i2',!^^'"ate ; sl^eath smootli scabrid or villous; ligule a rutge of hairs. 

 ""*^* whorled ; ^ ''"'"^^^^^ "f" the Indian species) ; branches J- 1 m,, lower some- 

 ''* grteu or ni,r ^ '^"Pa-tent, flowering to the base ; i — 



PurpuslTj gl. IV naked at the base j awn not twisted. 



rachis angtihtr, scabrid. Spike- 



'efy large Jji**"^®*' ^«oi-./. ; tall, very stout, leaves very long, panicle 

 "'■^'Ple unnpr '''"^'^^^^■'''•™. branches 3-8 in. fascicled erect very slender 

 ''^^"^ Zr Iv^"""^. ^""''^'^ than the rachis, spikelets J,-^ m 1-2-senate 



''^"itly pedicelled, gl. J = f U ovate acute 6-nerved, II ovate- 



