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108 CLXxlii. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) IMiscantJius: 



Much smaller than M. nepaUnsis, 2-3 ft. high, with leaves 4-10 in. long.^the 

 margins of which are ainooth as in that plant ; spikelets very much longer, s-j 

 long, and narrower. 



33. SPOSZOPOaON, Trin. 



Tall grasses. Leaves often long-petioled. Spikelets 1-2-fld., panicle^, 

 laterally compressed or subterete, 2-3-nate, lower sessile male, npper 

 bisexual, rachis jointed. Glumes 4; I and II subequal; I lanceolate, 5-^- 

 nerved, tip acuminate or toothed; II membranous, lanceolate, 3-7-neryeQ; 

 III hyaline, paleate or not, 3-androu8 or empty; IV 2.fid or 2-partite with a 

 very slender exserted awu in the sinus; palea shorter. Lodicules cuneate. 

 Arithers linear. Stigmas linear. Grain free, narrowly fusiform. — Species 

 about 5, Asiatic. 



1. S. albidos, Benth. in Journ, Unn. Soc. xix. (1881) 66; decumbeiit, 

 leaves long-petioled broad flaccid, panicle narrow, spikelets 2-fld. latemy 

 compressed, silkily villous, gl. I membranous. Hack. Monogr. Androp. lo^- 

 Andropogon albidus, Hb. Heyne, A. rhizophorus, Steud. Syn. Gram, 

 381; ButUe Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 26.— Andropogon ? Wall. Cat. n. 



8821. 



Eajpootana; on Mt. Aboo, Buthie. Dkccan Peninsxtla, from the Concan to 

 Travancore. • 



A weak struggling tufted branched annual ?, 2-4 feet ; stem very slender, niuc 

 branched, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by ^-f in., flaccid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1- 

 nerved, usually suddenly narrowed into a slender petiole 1-3 in. long ; sheath 3-5 m- » 

 llgule oblong, glabrous. Panicle at first enclosed in a long narrow ^^'P^*'"?^^^^.- 

 leaf-sheath; rachis compressed, ciliate. Spikelets About i in. long, white; ^nor J 



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narrow and sheaths softly hairy, panicle narrow, spikelets 1-fld. ^*^ > 

 villous, gl. I chartaceoua 7-9-nerved. — Andropogon, n. 16, Serh, H- J* 

 & T. 



Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomsony 

 Ac. 



Pf^rennial. Stem 2-4 ft., solid, as thick as a goose-quill, quite smooth, ieare 

 12-18 by i-J in., smooth hairy or villous, base villous, margins scaberulous, ha ^^ 

 villous, midrib broad, white; sheath glabrous; ligule densely villous. ^!f^^i^ 

 6-8 in., narrowly oblong, erect, very dunse-fid.. pale ; pedicels very short. Spt^ 



^ in, ; gl. I acuminate, dorsally convex, margins narrowly incurved; TI '^^ '*l,r 

 suhcbartaceous, 3-5 nerved, hairy dorsally, sometimes obtuse and apiculate; 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 1-nerved ciliate ; IV shorter than II, cleft into ^^"^^ "u^ 

 segments with a slender interposed awn as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved beloW 

 middle ; palea lanceolate, 2-fid* 



3. S. cotullfer. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 187 ; tall, erect, leaves loog 

 sessile and petioled, panicle lax effuse branches and long capillary P®^^^^ 3 

 short subclavate, spikelets 1-tld. lanceolate terete sparsely hairy, gl- I ^^ 

 II coriaceous strongly nerved. Eulalia cotulifera, Mvnro ex Miq- -P^^.y* ' 

 Fl Jajp, 177 ; Franch. & Sav, En. PL Jap, ii. 189. Miscanthus cotumer, 

 Benth, in Joum, Linn. Soc, xix. (1881) 65. Eccoilopus andropogonoides* 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 124. Andropogon cotulifer, Thunh. Fl Jap. 41. 



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