134 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J, D. Hooker.) [IscJiceuuir.. 



W. 



WigJd Cat n, 1693; Wall. GaLn. 8588; BniliH 

 Until. FL ITongk, 426. S. scrobiculatus, Nees xn 

 .AvlftT^Amia. Arp^.9 fi3! Steud, I.e. 373, 377. S.viUo 



Andropogon bifidus 



Wight Ca/. n. 1694, & zeylanicua, Nees ex Steud. I. 

 SU8, Nees in Hook. Sf Am, Bot. Beech. Yoy. 242. ^ _ 



incertus, Macraci. ^imillimus, patenti-villosus, & Retzii, Steud. I.e. 3/0- 

 377. A.Macrai, Steud. I.e. d77. A. malacophyllus, Hochst. ex Steud. t.c. 



372.— Spodiopogon, Wall Cat. n. 8859, 8860, 8862. 



Bengal and the Lowfr Himalaya, from Nepal to Assam, Silhet and Br^sMA, 

 and southwd. to Trataxcoee, the Laccadine Islds., Alcock, and Gt, Cocos 



ISLB., Prain. Ceylon. — Distkib. China, Malaya, Australia. 



Stem 6 in. 2 ft., stout or slender, tufted, leafy, sometimes creeping; nodes 

 glabrous or bearded. Zeaves 2-6 in., glabrous pubescent or villous ; sneath 

 glabrous or hirsute; ligule short, ciliate. Spikes 1^-2 in., rather stout ; joints and 

 pedicels = about J the spikelets, straight or incurved, ciliate, truncate. Sptfcttcts 

 |-^in. ; gl. I polished, glabrous or villous, sometimes pitted, upper part scrobinulate 

 or not, terminal wings erose or ciliolate, scaberulous, margins broadly '^^^y^p 

 below; II glabrous, or dorsally ciliate, aristuLite ; III oblong, 1-3-nerved, eilmte, 

 paleate, male; palea with a chartaceous lanceolate centre, and broad hyaline wings; 

 IV glabrous or ciliolate, awn very slender, about tw^ice as long as the spikelet. 

 Pedicelled spilcelets rather smaller than the sessile, gl. I acute.— A very common 

 and variable plant, of which Hackel has 3 varieties and 4 Indian subvarieties as 



follows : — 



Var, a. genuinum^ Hack. ; joints and pedicels diverging at the base, Bpike* 

 lets continuous with the callus, gl. IV of pedicelled spikelets usually awned. 

 1, prorepens, stem creeping, branches erect, gl. I not scrobiculate ; 2, scTohicnlatMin, 

 habit of a, spikelets smaller, gl. I scrobiculate. — 3, malacopliyllnm^ tall, g'- 

 broadly winged at the tip, keel of II ciliate.— 4, villosum; leaves and sheatw 

 villous, 



Var. )3. TTaHicAu, Hack. ; tall, joints and pedicels not divergent at <i^«. ^'^f^ 

 sessile epikelet suddenly constricted at the long bearded callus, gl. IV of pedicellea 

 spikelet imperfectly awned. . • 



Var. 7. longipilum, Hack. ; joint and pedicels as in fi. Spikelets glabrous ffitB 

 a long bearded callus, pedicelled spikelet long-awned. 





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17. 1. heterotricliiixn, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 220; stem prostrate 

 then ascending, leaves linear-lanceolate from a rounded base, epikes 

 stout erect, gl. I of sessile spikelet rhombic-lanceolate upper part ^^^^^^ 

 acute dorsally smooth glabrous 4-nerved tip membranous 2-toothed kee 

 broadly winged, II subcoriaceous keel winged above, III ovate 3-Tierve , 

 IV shorter broadly oblong shortly 2-tootlied awned in the notch. PAndro- 

 pogon comorensis, Steud. Syn. Gram. 431. 



Kicobae Islds., Jelin^i-.— Distbib. Madagascar, Seychelles. o flbf 



Stem about 20 in. high, slender, compressed, quite glabrous. Leaves 2-^ ^.^ 

 i-li in., glabrous or base fimbriate, margins undulate, scabrid, base contracted 

 the junction with the compressed loose keeled sheath; ligule very short, ^^'^^^**.j,^ 

 ciliate. Bpikes 2-2^ in., erect, compressed, joints and pedicels half as long as 

 spikelet, bearded. Sessile spikelet -| in. ; callus bearded at the base; gh I ^^P'"^!^' 

 branous 2-toothed, 4-nerved above, margins involute below the middle ; II '^"^ ^ 

 nulate, margins ciliolate; III shorter, chartaceous, ovate, acuminate, 3-Derv 

 ciliate, paleate; IV short, ciliolate, awn more or less imperfect confluent witb ^^ 

 gl. FedicelUd spikelets} in., gl. I winged from below the middle «P^?^^f 

 7.nerved glabrous.— Descript. from Hackel. In a Seychelle Isld. specimen whic? 

 have examined the keel of gl. II is not dorsally winged, and gl. IV is by»^ 

 6-nerved with lanceolate acuminate ciliate lobes. ■ 



