H3 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEJB. (J. D. Hooker.} \_PogonatheTnm. 



Thronghout India, extending to the Malay Peninsula, usually at lower elevations 

 and in hotter places than P. saccharoideum. — Disteib. Affghan, China, Malaya, N. 

 Hebrides. 



A different looking plant from the common form of P. saccharoideumj with paler 

 more flexuous squarrose awns, much smaller spikelets, and the hairs of the callus 

 longer than the callus, but intermediates occur, and I could have followed Hackel ui 

 uniting them bad he included the following. vj 



3. P. rufo-barbatum, Griff. Notul. iii. 81, Ic. PL Asiat t. 145, 



f. 11 ; spikelets ^ in., gl. I broadly 2-lobed, III villous above the middle, 

 IV and its palea ciliate, stamens 2. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. P. majus, 

 Griseb. in Goett Nachr. (1868) 92. 



Khasta Hills; by streams, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffithj &c. 



Stem 10-24 in. ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., sometimes } in. broad. Spifi^^ 

 l-2Jin. ; hairs of callus shorter than the spikelet ; gl. 1, 2-lobed but hardly 2- 

 auricled (as described by Hackel). — Only, I think, a large form of saccharoideum 

 growing in wet places. 



40. APOCOPZS, Nees. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves short. Spiheleis 2-fld. (lower 

 fl. bisexnal, upper fem.) solitary or the upper reduced to a pedicel, dis- 

 tichously imbricate on solitary or digitate articulate spikes, dorsally com* 

 pressed. Glumes 4, I broad, cuneiform, coriaceous, many- nerved, tip 

 rounded ciliate ; II thinner, truncate, 2-keeled ; III narrow, hyaune, 

 paleate; IV hyaline, entire or 2.fid, awned or reduced to an awn ^'^^*?r 

 at the base ; palea very short, convolute, truncate, tip ciliate, or 0. Lod^ 

 culcs 0. Stamens 2-3. Styles very short, stigmas long. Grain terete, 

 free.— Species 3-4, Eastern Asiatic. 



1. A. Soyleanus, Nees in Proc. Idnn. Soc. i. (1894), et in Ann.^ 

 Mag. Nat Rist. vii. (1841) 220; perennial, gl. IV oblong 2.fid, awn short 

 or 0. Hack. Monogr, Androp. 257 ; Duthie Grass. N.W Ind. 16. Isch^ 

 mum paleacenm, Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6, ii. (1833) 293; *P- 

 Gram. Ic. t. 333. Andropogon paleaceus & himalayensis, Steud. Sp* 

 Gram. i. 376, 377. Ischsemum denticulatnm. Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. ru 

 S8o7.— Wall. Cat. n. 8843. 



Subtropical Himalaya ; alt. 3-4000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. KhasU 

 Hills, alt. 4000 ft. MrNNFPOEE, alt, 4-5O0O ft., ^aif.— Disteib. Borneo. x 



Stem erect, 10-24 in., usually simple. Leaves 2-4 in., narrowly lanceolat^ 

 acuminate, and sheaths glabrous or softly hairy. Peduncle long, slender ; sp^f^ 

 1-2, rarely 3, erect, 1-1 J in. ; rachis rusty -villous, brittle. Spikelets about | jo^ 

 much longer than the joints ; gl. I truncate, dark red-brown with a broad yy^,^ 

 tip; IV awa very slender, included or if exserted not twice the length oft 

 spikelet. 



2. A. Wigrhtii, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 377; annnal, gl- ^ 

 linear entire or 2-dentate, awn long. Wight Cat. n. 2352 ; Hach Monogr^ 

 Androp. 258; TJiwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 365; A. Wrightii, Munro in Pro^ 

 Am. Acad. iv. 363, et in Bentk Fl Hongk. 421. A. Beckettii, Tkw. ^ 

 Trim. Cat. Zeyl. PI. 107. Amblyachyrum mangalorense, Hochst. ^ 

 Hohenack. PL Lid. Or. n. 231 & in Flora, xxxix. (1856) 26. 



Behar, Cknibal India, throughout the Deccan Peninsxtla, Bobma, 

 Ceylon. 



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