Mcemum.'] clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 131 



Stem 12-24, in., slender, flaccid, leafy, pale, internodes long, nodes glabrous or 

 jajry. Leaves 3-5 in., finely acuminate, flaccid, 3-5-nerved, glabrous or sparsely 

 '!*''■?' margins smooth, costa slender, lower with a filiform petiole ^-IJ in. long; 

 sbeiiths long, upper often ventricose and open, margins and 'ligule ciliate. Spikes 



-^t m., more or less villous with white or grey hairs ; joints trigonous, clavate, 

 omile spikelets J— ^ in., gl. I thin, green, dorsally villous, margins narrowly inflexed 

 ctiiefly below the middle; II lanceolate, acuminate, dorsally rounded ; III lanceolate, 

 th°^Tu P^^^^^J IV glabrous or lobes ciliate, 3-nerved, awn |-| in. ; palea longer 



. 1 ^^' -P^^^ceiie^i spikelets very shortly broadly pedicelled; gl. I 7-9-nerved, 



^^ea above on one side.— I have not seen Huegel's specimens which alone Hackel 



^^cnbes, and for which no habitat is given. The leaf-margins of the specimens I have 



n are scarcely *'scaberriraaB." Hackel has two vars. : a. genuinwm, spikelets 



ann™^^!''^^"^^ dorsally smooth; /3. dast/anthum, gl. I at least of upper spikelet 



PPi^sedly villous, joints scabrid with hairy margins and dorsal keel, 

 tran/^*"^! ^^*^^^^*' spikes more slender, joints shortly villous, gl. I shining glabrous 

 ^wersely undulate below the middle, IV bicuspidate, awn sometimes inserted 



tte crft ^*^^^^^^ ^^® ^^^^ ^^^ sinus, or bipartite and awn geniculately inserted at 



r 

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u}^' \' ®°"J'^ffatum, Soxh. Fl. Ind. i. 321 ; annual, prostrate below, 

 ves stiort base hastate or broadly deeply cordate, spikes 2 short villous, 

 Villon ^^'^ ^ <i'y\-^SitQ, gl. I of sessile spikelet oblong obtuse flat 2-toothed 

 Dahpr!i^^^'^ T-fr ^^^^"^ margins obscurely nodose, II lanceolate acuminate 

 the pwf^ ^'J "^^^^^ *° ^^o^it ^^^ middle, awn dorsally inserted at or below 

 Poiron .-"-""^^ Bntim. PI. i. 513 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 205. Spodio- 

 foHn, Q^'^J^g^tus, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calc. 706. Andropogon cordati- 

 ""' ^^«w<^- Syn. Gram. 376. 



'Vfmm.'^^^' ^"^^^ Calcutta, Soxburgh. The Concan, Stocks. Cetlox (naturalized) 



geniculately ascending, 12-18 in. 



Se^ ^'^^''^^ 0/ upper spikelets = i the length of the lower spiJcelet, or 



' *■ vp^«°f*?***"™' ^'^^^•- ^onog 



■^K leav7»T^'*^*^^™J llach. Monogr. Androp. 2Uy; sienaer, pro8irj*u^ 

 '^•ong obt?l '■^ °°^*^'^^'' ^«^er petioled, spikes 2, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 ""^fgins ob«n °V"*^ 2-toothed flat dorsally undulate tip faintly winged 

 V'^^ in3eS^'"''^y,''°'l"lose. H acuminate keeled, IV cleft to the middle 

 n 107 I ^ .* ^""oad base between the ciliate lobes. Tnm. Cat. Geyl. 

 NiTn^ ■ ^"^^s^gittatum, Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 365 {non Roxh.). 



7000 ft., Clarke. CETLOJf ; Ambagamowa district, 



