hcJicmim.] clxxiii. gbamine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 139 



cleft to below the middle, awn very short inserted in the cleft. ? Lishoa in 

 fmrn. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 198. Spodiopogon petiolaris, Trin. 

 tn Mem. Acad. Petersh. 8er. vi. ii. (1833) 301. S. Lehmanni, Griseh. in 

 ^oetting. Nachr. (1868) 91. Pollinia Lehmanni, Wight & Am. ex Nees PL 

 JWej/er 186 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 16. Andropogon petiolaris, Steud. 



°^^- ™»- 398. PA. petiolatus, Bah. & Gibs. Bomb. FL Zm.— Wall. 

 tat. 8807 A. 



SuBTfiopicAL Himalaya, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Garwhal to Kepal. Khasia 

 MUs, alt. 4-500O ft. PThe CoNCAX, Dalzell, Lishoa. BuemA; Karen Hills, 



_ 8tem2~Z ft., simple or branched, pubescent below the spikes ; nodes pubescent. 

 /"^r 1 u ^^ *"■'■* ''^•' setaceously acuminate, more or less hairy, margins scabrid; 

 'oeatn glabrous or margins ciliate ; ligule stiff, oblong, truncate. Spikes 8-20, 

 L? '"^■' *'^P^^ °^ divided, rachis glabrous, axils bearded; joints and pedicels 

 wiiened, subtrigonous, about as long as the spikelets, shortly ciliate. Spikelets 

 i-5 in., oblong-lanceolate, pale greenish ; callus minute, shortly bearded ; gl. I 

 nanaceous 6-8-nerved to the tip, margins rather broadly inflexed from base to tip; 

 obtn J^i ""'i -^ *^'''*'*^' ^^ chartaceous, keel scabrid, 3-nerved; III = I, oblong, 

 eiliate • TV _ !' Z'^^"*^^' 3-nerved, paleate, male, palea oblong-lanceolate 2-nerved 

 lanf><>nwi <r * h glabrous, 3-nerved, lobes acute, awn i-J in. ; palea = the gl., 

 cUn^MA ™^^^' glabrous. Fedicelled spikelet like the sessile, but gl. I hardly 

 hUini \ y ^P^^^ate; IV male.- As Hackel remarks, this has the habit of a 

 «pikelet« ^*^ ie/^to^/ierwrn (where I should have been disposed to place it) with the 



more of an IscJuBmum. I have seen no Concan specimen. 



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softlvf?" "3'"**^™' Soo&.f. ; tall, stout, leaves long narrow coriaceous 

 verv s w^'^ir^® °,^ ^°*^ surfaces, spikes few racemed strict erect, joints 

 Hin ^^"l^^ly truncate lower minutely puberulous, sessile spikelets 

 quite ^inlf ^^- ?b^o"g-lanceolate acute coriaceous awnless dorsally flat 

 II Sriil l"!.'^^ ^-^ broad low nerves, keels scabrid above the middle, 

 awnleS! ^-^"^erved, III 3-nerved paleate male, IV oblong apicalate 



Es^v'S^'f V J.' ^*""'' '° Bursahir,alt. 7000 ft.," £randis (Herb. Calcutt.). 

 toose-qnili „It i\^^ ^'g^ from a hard rootstock, hard, solid, nearly as thick as a 

 K acumin«fl !• ^^^^- ^^""«s 12-18 by ^-i in., narrowed from the base to the 

 Pubescent- lili^' ^!^' '^curved scaberulous, midrib very stout; sheath long, finely 

 •^at, glabron! • * ^""^^ ^^ '°"g liairs. Spikes 4-5 in., lower stipitate; peduncle 

 •oncave sZ'h ^^'"w ^ ^^°'"<^«'' than the spikelets, dorsally rounded, ventraliy deeply 

 ^^ amalW tw"^ f ^^^ ^"'*^ glabrous, appressed to the rachis, upper in the 

 ■" the middlp ; ^^^ ^'''^^^ ; <=allus very short, stout; gl. I sometimes channelled 



fc!^ , , »^uie, Very vftnaKl^* :« ^l. t -; *.- ° .r a. 



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h^aller than fSn ^^ -.^ ""^'"'^y ^^ ^^ng, 2.nerved, both eciliate. Fedicelled spikelet 

 ^ tbe sessile bnf?fu''l' ' ^'- ^ oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, other gls. and palea as 



. ui. Doth flg.— Very unlikp nnv nth^r N. Indian species. 



Very unlike any other N. Indian species, 



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T DOUBTFUL SPECISS 



^"^kSoJ'r^T^' ^'"r^ ^^^"^- %^- Gram. U9; Duthie Gfas!<. N.W.Ind 18; 

 . »• HnoELii «;?• ^P- ^nJroJogon corollatus, Steud. /.c.-Mussoorie, Royle 

 U*"ched below l^-,^"""^''- Andrtp. 252; annual, glabrous, decumbent and 

 ^^^ thorny p^t^^^^^^^^^^ 1-12 by ^ in. Lt flaccid, upper sessile cordate- anceolate 

 >^. gl. I Sf ieS' 'P'^' '°'^t"y H-2 in. rather stout, joints clavate dorsally 

 S*<» ridges aboSni '^'^'^^^^ «blong obtuse coriaceous below with often inter- 

 •*»'rid, l! ovate d.', "'l^^'" glabrous or dorsally ciliate, margins narrow ymflexed 



ovate deeply keeled, HI oblong hyaline glabrous paleate, IV linear- 



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