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villous or glabrate below it, IV linear 2-fid, lobes narrow acute, awa 

 several times longer than the spikelet ciliate, palea 0. Hack, Monogr, 

 Androp. 162, P. tristachya, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl, 368 (m part)\ Bentk 

 FL Austral, vii. 527. Duthie Fodd. Grass, N.W. Ind. 26, t. 53. Enlalia 

 argentea, Brongn, Voji, Coq. Bot 92. Erianthas rufus, Nees ex Sttud. 

 Syn. Gram. 409 {parttm), E. hexastachyus, SocJisL in Hohen. PL Ind, 

 Or. n, 279; Miq. Anal Bot. Ind ii. 35. E. Roxbnrghii, F. Muell Fragm. 

 PhyL viii. 117. E. tristachyus, Nees in Herb. Strach. & Wiyiterb. No. 4; 

 in Hook. &. Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. 241. Saccharum ruf um & tristachyum 

 {in part), Stend. I.e. 408. Andropogon minutiflorus & hexastachyus, 

 Steud. I.e. 379, 380. A, trispicatus, Schult. Mant. ii. 452. A. tristachyus, 

 Roxb. Fh Ind. i, 256.— Andropogon, WalL Gat n. 8811. 



Tbopical Hihalata, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Kumaon eastwards to the Khasia 

 HiLts, Bengal, Bkhab and southward to Ceylon. — Distrib. Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 2-3 ft, high, leafy, or in small specimens leafy at the base chiefly. 

 Leaves 12-18 in., rarely \ in. broad, glabrous or sparsely hairy ; ligule very short, 

 bearded. Spikes 2-12, lJ-6 in. long, flexuous; rachis and pedicels slender. Gl* 

 I thin, pide brown below, pale yellow above the middle ; II and III as in P. ?ltft^- 

 folia, but IV longer and narrower. — Roxburgh describes this as an annual delicate 

 beautiful species, but most of the specimens appear to be perennial. The very small 

 spikelets resemble those of P. articulata, 



8. P. fimbr la t a, Hac it. Monogr. Androp. 164; stems very slender 

 fibining, leaves very narrow, spikes 2-4 villous with white hairs, joints 

 very short slender, spikelets -^Q-i in., gl. I lanceolate truncate nerveless 

 dorsally smooth depressed, keels ciliate, II obtuse. III oblong-lanceolate 

 ciliate, IV narrow 2-fid, awn much longer than the spikelets ciliate, palea 

 very minute or 0. 



Western Himalaya, Simla, alt, 7-8000 ft., Thomson, Malabab and Concah, 



Stocks, Sfc. Peott, M'Ldland. 



Annual. SUm 12 ft., internodes much longer than the sheaths, nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 6-10 by \ in., flaccid, sparsely hairy above; sheath glabrous; hgul« * 

 ciliolate ridge. Spikes 1-3 in., long-peduncled, flexuous, pale; rachis slender, 

 joints densely villous; gl. I with villous keels above, obscurely 2-toothed ; I' 

 with oblong ciliate lobes. — Hackel describes gl. IV. as epaleate, but I fin^ * 

 minute palea. He suspects that Andropogon conjugatus, Roxb. (Fl. Ind. i. 255) ^ 

 be closely allied, but Roxburgh describes his plant as the smallest of the genus 

 with minute leaves, the two spikes as exactly paired and touching one another; 

 which is not the case in P.fimbriata, 



tt Basal sheaths of stem villous or woolly. 



9. P. phaBOthrlx, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 168; basal sheaths rusty- 

 tomentose, leaves very slender, spikes 2-4, spikelets ^— J~ in., gl. 1 broadly 

 or narrowly truncate nerveless or faintly 2-nerved dorsally hispidl/ 

 villous, IV short deeply 2-fid segments narrow, palea small obovate ciliate. 

 P. Cumingii, Thw. Enum. PL Z^yL 368 ; THm. Cat. CeyL PL 106 {non 



Nees). p. arcent^^a, Balans 



aureus, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1690 {excL syn.) ; Steud. Syn. Gram. ('«^ 

 EuL nepalensis). E. Cumingii, J'. JlfwZ/. JProflrm. viii. 118. E. tristachyus, 

 JVeeslc. n. 1691. Andropogon pilosus, Willd. ex Wight Lc. 1690. ^' 

 brunneus, Heyne in Herb, RottL 



NiLGHiBi Hills, alt. 6-7000 ft, Wight, &c. Cbxlon. in the Central Provinces. 

 DiSTBiB. Tonkin. 



Stem 18-24 in., slender; peduncle silky under the panicle. Lt<ivcs 6-18 >"•' 



