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130 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ischa^mum. 



on Parasnath. Central India. (Cult, in Bengal, /iTurj?.)— Distbib. Affghauistan, 



China, Philippines. , 



Stems 2-3 ft., tufted, sparingly branched, slender, grooved on one side, smootn. 

 heaves 1-2 ft. by y^ff '^^-y concave or convolute, base obtuse fimbriate, margins 

 scaberulous; sheath glabrous, old basal forming with the wool a thickened m^s; 

 ligale a ridge of hairs. Spikes 1-2 in., close together or placed apart, erect, golden 

 or rusty villous; joints and pedicels = J the lower spikelet, slender, shortly ciliati^ 

 bearded at the base. Spilcelefs }-~l in., hinceolate, callus hairs short; gh ■[ f^*** 

 chartaceous, margined with long rufous hairs; II rather longer, 3-5-nerved, ciliate, 

 keel bearded below; III oblong, obtuse, tip ciliate, nerveless, paleate; palea entire 

 or2.1obed, tip ciliate; IV = II, 1-nerved, awn as long as the spikelet; palea short, 

 ovate, obtuse, tip fimbriate. Pedicelled spikelefs like the sessile.— Hackelpomts 

 out that except for the inflorescence this is more a Spodiopogon or Tollima than an 

 Ischfvmum, and should perhaps form a genus. The woolly stem-base recalls PolUnta 

 velutina and ph<eotJirix, 



8. Z. pilosum, Each Monogr. Androp. 24f); tall, robust, leaves narrow, 

 spikes 2-6 villous, gl. I of sessile spikelet lanceolate bicuspidate translucent 

 dorsally flat or depressed hairy 6-nerved keels scabrid and ciliate, II longer 

 keel ciliate above, lY = III obloag-lanceolate 2-fid, avsm short slender 

 inserted between the lanceolate lobes. Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Irid'Oi] 

 Li^boain Bomb. Joum. Nat Hiat. vi. ri89l) 199. Spodiopogon pi™ 

 Kecs ex Steud. Syn. Gram, 373 ; Wight Gat. n. 1692. Andropogon piMe^ 

 Stevd. i.e. A. pilosus, Klein ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 920.— Andropogon, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8817. 



Ajmeer; at'Seemnch, Jacquemont. Centeal Provinces, Dw^Ate, The Dbcca 



Pemnsula, Eeyixey ^c. \ 



Stem very stout, extensively creeping; stolons sheathed; branches 2-3 ft, ni 

 divided at the base, nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-12 in., flat or convolute, often w>7| 

 coriaceous, glaucous, finely acuminate, glabrous, base and mouth of sheath bear^ > 

 ligule membranous, rounded. Spikes fascicled, ^-li^ in., yellow or brownish, rac 



hairy, joints and pedicels slender, compressed, subclavate, shorter than ^^® ,^^^-ljj 

 spikelets, sparsely ciliate. Sessile spikelets ^— J in. ; callus minute, bearded wi 



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long hairs; gl. I ohartaccous, narrowed from the middle upwards, dorsally**^ -' 

 nerves anastomosing, margins inflexed from base to tip : II rather longer, chartaceo j 



laterally compressed, acuminate, 5 -nerved ; III linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate RO ' 

 paleate, male, palea glabrous; IV = III, 3-nerved, lobes ciliolate, awn v^^'**' .jjj 

 length ; palea narrow or broad, ciliate. Feduncled spikelets smaller but like 

 sessile, or imperfect, sometimes reduced to a single gl. 



tt Loaves hastate or cordate at the base, often petioled. 



§ Pedicel of upper spikelet not ^ the length of the loiver spikelet. 



9. X. semisagrittatum, Boxh. FL Ind. i. 320; annual, slendej 

 prostrate below, leaves oblong- or linear- lanceolate from a broad cordat 

 sagittate base, spikes 2 villous or glabrescent, joints very short ^^*^/i ^^ 

 gl. I of sessile spikelet oblong obtuse flat glabrous transversely undulate 

 ridged or margins nodulose, II lanceolate acuminate villous or P^^^^^.^, 

 IV cleft to the middle or higher, awn dorsal below the cleft, ^^^^^f^nui 

 PL i. 513; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 208; lAshoa injourn. Bomb. ^T' Cat 

 Sac. vi, (1891) 197. I. conjugatum, Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 365 ; Tri^'^\^ 



Jc. Lc. 205 (nan Boxb.). Meoschium semisagittai^^ 

 Spodiopogon semisagittatus, Voigt Sort. *w ^ 

 Calc. 706. Andropogon semisagittatus, Sleud. St/n. Gram. 376. 



Bengal, Eo^hurgh. The Deccan, Concan, and Canara, Stocks, TaM 

 Ceilon, TAicaite* (C.P. 3263). 



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