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elegans, ^fm. 4" Nees, rugosnm. Nees, & Wightianura, Nees in Nov. Act 

 Nat Cur, xix, Suppl. I (1843) 199, in PI Meyen. 200. M. Royleanum, 

 NecB ex Steud, Syn. Gram, 375. M. rugosum, Wall. Gat. n. 8864 M. 

 yfig\it\\,Nee8in Wight Cat. n, 1719. Andropogon Araottianus, GnffithsisB, 

 segetum & Tong-dong, Sleud, I.e. 375, 376. Aplndei rn^osdi, Herb. Buss. 

 €x Wall. I. c. 8864 A. Colladoa distachja, Cav. Ic. 37, t, 460. 



Thronghout India from the Lower Himalaya southwd. to Burma, and the Malay 

 Peninsula, Andaman Islds,, and Ceylon, — Distrib. China, Malaya. ^ 



Stems 1-2 ft, tufted, nodes glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 4-10 in.; hg"'e 

 short. Spikes 1-3 in., pale yellow; joints = § spikelets, very stout, ciliate. ^ SiJtfc^ 

 lets I '^xu.y pale yellow; gl. I veined in the upper membranous third; ridgt'sor 

 lower. ^ often imbricating like folds ; II acute, keeled, scaberulous ; III lanceolate 

 acnte, hyaline, paleate; IV Tiearly= II ; awn short or long, very slender, glisteiungj 

 palea ovate-lanceolate. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, or imperfect. — ^^^^^ 

 has 3 vars., but I fail to limit them with copious suites of specimens. T'lere 

 are, however, two recognizable forms; one with glabrous joints and pedicels, a 

 glabrous or shortly hairy callus, and imperfect awn, the other with more ciliaw 

 nodes and pedicels, a more bearded callus and longer awn. 



3. X. tnagrnum, Rendh in Joum. Bot. xxxii. (1894) 102; tall, stout, 

 leaves linear-lanceolate from a narrow base, spikes 2 appressed 4-7 i^- 

 nearly glabrous, gl. I of sessile spikelet oblong-lanceolate very coriaceous 

 and deeply transversely channelled below the middle thinner above ana 

 3-5-nerved with one keel narrowly winged, IV ovate-lanceolate entire 

 apicnlate awn 0. 



Singapore ; at Blakan Mate, Feilding. 



Stem 6 ft., branched above ; branches slender, nodes hairy. Leaves 12-20 iO'» 

 finely acuminate, glabrous above, sparsely hairy beneath ; sheaths above villous an 

 ecabrid ; ligulc \'\ in., 2-auricled. Spikes stout, pale ; joints 3-gonous, ciliolate o 

 the outer angle, = J shorter than the sessile spikelet, tips very shortly bearde i 

 pedicel of upper spikelet very sh-rt stout. Sessile spikelets i iu., oblong, conve » 

 pule yellowish polished, tumid between the transverse channels ; II coriaceous, ^^^ .^ 

 keeled, margins incurved ; III lanceolate, acuminate, hyaline, 3-nervetl, puleate, p^^ 

 as long 2-nerved ; IV rather shorter, h.valine, ovate-lanceolute, 3-nerved ; P^^^^. 

 long, narrowly lanceolate, 2.nerved. Pedicelled spikelet as long as the sessi , 

 obliquely convolute, inner margin with 2-3 nodules, outer narrowly winged. 



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stout densely silkily villous with white hairs, joints broad half as ^^?f ^ 

 the spikelets, gl. 1 broadly ovate-oblong obtuse smooth dorsally ^^^^^y 

 all over many-nerved, II obtuse silky keel narrowly winged ^^^^.-^^ 

 middle npwards, IV shorter cleft to the middle, lobes acuminate cijia _» 

 awn genicuUitely inserted at the cleft. I. aristatnm var. intermedia » 

 Hack. niss. 



Tlie CoNCAN? Herb. Lahell. Central rROVixCES; Chanda district, ^'^^'^'u 

 StemZ-4 ft., soft, solid, quite smooth, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by J-J *"'{ fiio., 

 acuminate, base rounded and cordate, sparsely hairy on both surfaces ; sheaths ^^^ ^ 

 smooth, glabrous or sparingly hairy above, mouth villous. Spikes axillary ^^^ 

 terminal. 3-5 in. ; joints stout, 3-gonous or concavo-convex, ciliate, tips t^^^^^^u 

 Spikelets J- J- in. ; callus vek-y short, broad ; gl. I thinly coriaceous, margins "'^^r? J. 

 incurved obscurely waved at the base ; II chartaceous, wing ciliolate, margins ciii*J^j| 



III hyaline, ovate, obtuse, 3-nerved, ciliate; palea as long, narrower, obtuse, 2-ner ' 



IV about I shorter than III, awn 2-3 times as long as the gls., golden y^^'^^, j^( 

 shining with a brown column; palea like that of III but smaller. Upper «P^ 

 finialler than the lower, awnless, pedicel = i of lower spikelet. 



