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r/i?al^, leaves quUe glabrous, spikes about 4, gl. I. chartaceous 6-7-nerved in the 

 upper glabrous witb tbe margins sparsely hairy. — Cejlon. 



20. 1- timorense, Kunth Bevis. Gram. i. 369, t. 98, Enum. PI l 

 512, Suppl. 419; slender, decumbent below, leaves sessile and petioled, 

 ppikes 2-3 sparingly villous, gl. I ovate or ovate-lanceolate acuminate 

 bicuspidate 5-9-nerved base ventricose, II longer acuminate or aristulate 

 dorsally rounded, IV short 2-lobed awn in the cleft very slender.^ Haclc, 

 Monogr. Androp. 229 ; Lisboa in Journ, Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 

 198. I. tenellnm, Roxh. FL Ind. i. 323. Spodiopogon Blumii, Nees ex 

 Steud, Syn. Gram. 373. Andropogon Astheno?, Steiid. I. c. A. timorensis, 

 Steud. L c. 376.— Iscbiemum n. 4, Griff. Notul. 91, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 148, f. 

 1. — Spodiopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 



Bengal, Roixihurgli, Silhet, Clarice. Chittagong, J. D. S. ^' T. T. BtteMA, 

 Wallich. CA^-ARA uud tbe Cekteal Provinces, Duthie, &c. Malayan Pkni^i- 



8ULA. Cetion, Thwaites (C.R 963, 3168).— Disteib. Malay and Pacific Islds. 



Stem 6-18 in., branched and straggling, nodes glabrous or sparingly bearded. 

 Leaves 1-4 in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or sparsely hairy, base^ of 

 upper rounded, of lower narrowed ; sheath lax, mouth hairy ; lignle obscure. Sj3v:€i. 

 1-2 in., rather slender; joints and pedicels about half as long as the spikelet, nearly 

 equal, shortly cilicte. Sessile spikelets -j^^i ^^-j greenish, or with green nerves; 

 callus narrow, long-bearded; gl. I margins broadly involute below, subauricled, 

 dorsally convex, polished, nerves strong; II recurved, 3-5-nerved, tip 2-tootDed, 

 dorsally usually cihate ; III lanceolHte, paleate, palea linear-oblong ; IV glabrous, 

 awn very slender shortly exserted. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, awned.^A 

 very variable plant, in the form of the leaves especially. Hackel gives four varieties 

 founded on inconstant characters of the leaves and length ot the awn. I have httle 

 doubt that I. tenelliun, Koxb., is I. timorense. Had el doubtfully refers it to ctlxare, 

 of which it has none of the marked characters. 



Sect. II. Sehima (Forsk. Gen.). Spikes solitary. GL I of sessile 

 Bpikelet deeply ctanneUed or depressed along tie median line (excep* 

 I. noiaium). 



21. I. laxum, Br. Prodr. 205 ; perennial, leaves linear scabernlous 

 base narrowed, gl. I of sessile spikelet linear-oblong glabrous 2-cu8pidate 

 with a broad membranous translucent depression bounded by two strong 

 flexuous submarginal nerves, nodose in the upper half, II awned, 1» 

 2-fid awned between the lanceolate ciliate lobes, Hack. Monogr. Androf. 

 243 ; Trivi. Cat. Ceyl Fl. 107 ; But/iie Fodd. Grass. N.W. Ind. 31, t. 58; 

 Luhoa in Jmrn. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 199; Benth. Fl. ^««'''^, 

 vii. 522. I. inscalptum, Hochst. in Flora (1844) 247 ; A. Bich. Tent. Fl' 

 Ahyss, ii. 472. I. macrostachyum, Hochst. er A. Bich. I. c. I. montanaDOt 

 Herb. Russ. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8818 A. I. nervosum, T/iw. Enum. Pl- ^W' 

 365. I. Sehima, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 298. Hologamium nervosum, lSee» 

 m Edinb. N. Phil. Jonrn. iviii. (1 835) 185 ; Wight Gat. n. 1689. Sehima 

 ischeBmoides, FomJc. Fl. JSg. Aral. 178. S. Kotschyi, HocM. If- °- 

 macrostachyum, Hochst. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 1705. Pollinia striata, 

 Spreng. Pugill. ii, 12. Andropogon Brownii, Knnth Bevis. Gram. i. l6->' 

 A. hneatus, Robertianus, Sehima & tacazensis, Steud. I. c. 369. A. macro- 

 BtaohyuB & inscalptus, Anderss. in Schweinf. Beiir. Fl. JEthiop. 310. *• 

 nervosus, Hffttl. in Qes. Naturf. Fr. N. Schrift. iv. (1863) 218; Steud. U- 

 A. stnatus Klein ex Willd. Sp. PL iv. 903; Br. Prodr. 201 ; Spreng. <•«• 

 298. A. schangulensis, Rupr. wi KotscAy Hist, ^thiop. n. 681 ; Steud. I- e- 

 369.— Andropogon, WaU. Cat. n. 8B18, 



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