Apocoins.\ 



CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



H3 



"^- 



SPfm tall, erect like A. Royleanusy or low and densely tufted. Leaves 1-3 in., 



pabroos or hairy. Spikes ^-1^ in,, slender or stout, Spikelets i-| in.; gl. I 

 yellow with red-brown tips, or dark brown with yellowish tips, glabrous or clothed 

 *rtfa red-brown shiny hairs, tips retuse ciliate with minute or long hairs ; II 

 3-Derved or nerveless, sides sharply inflected, angles smooth or scabrid; III nearly 

 = A| tip ciliolate ; IV very narrowly oblong or almost linear, awn two to six times 

 « long as the spikelet; palea very short and convolute. — Very variable, and 

 mmilj separable from Roj/leanus which is stouter with stouter spikes. Wight's 

 w"th°l y^*^^°^^^ (C^t. n. 2352) is 18-20 in. high, very slender, leafy upwards, 



itb slender pale spikes, and glabrous gl. I ; it strongly resembles some specimens 

 ^^•iioyleanus, and is I suspect perennial. This and a var. zeylanicus {Wightii, 

 m%a r^^*^ "^^^ ^^iry, darker gl. I, forms Hackel's Subsp. genuiiLUs. His Subsp. 



^alurensu includes short densely tufted states, with shorter red-brown densely 

 A J? ^ ^^"S-ciliate gl. I ; it is the common Deccan 

 WialV' A "^^^ difference between the narrow gl. IV 



V^«t, and the much broader hyaline one of A. B-oyleanus, i 

 the nnnl^^^'^^^^ ' spikes more or less included in the long spathiform sheaths of 

 H^ritT^''®^*^^^®^' ^' vaginatus. Hack, in (Estr. Bot. Zeitschr. xll (1891) 8.— 



form, and includes Thwaites' 



of all states of A. 

 is one of degree only. 



^^h, Claris'. 



3 Ji 

 • A. pallida, Soolc.f. ; annual, gl. IV reduced to a slender awn 



-flfcm^.io^^^- _..^ ... . - ... ■ geniculately ascend- 



smooth, sparsely 

 f-diam" — — "-tucu, suuscuoeruious; sneatn open; iifjuie u. Spikes i-1 in. 

 form cil^l' ^*^f P^le i rnchis slender, ciliate. Spikelets ^ in.; gl. 1 broadly cunei- 

 «WaJn«i 1'*° ^°°& I'airs, 7-9-nerved ; II oblong, obtuse, S-nerved, lateral nerves 

 Hin b^ ' ^^ ciliate; III oblong or lanceolate, glabrous, nerveless; IV awn 

 '^nca'te Vn"' "°* "^'l^ted at the base ; palea 0. Pedicelhd spikelets, gl. I spathulate, 

 ' _^'T"wa3, sides recurved; II as iu the sessile spikelets. 



..| ; 41. ARTKRAXON, Beauv. 



'^^£ fi^JjJi^J^^?^^] slender grasses 



^■j'7 »-— X si««ac». Leaves sKort, broad, deeply 



*«eond ,.S . l-fl<i-« solitary or with a rudimentary pedicelled 

 ^ largest n«„ n"" ^'"^^^^ digitate or fascicled jointed spikes. Glumes 4, 

 ^"erved . m ^ ^^r^^g^^ ^ubercled, not embracing the inner; II keeled, 

 *'tlni8;'llt T^^' hyaline; IV shortest, lanceolate, keeled, hyaline, 

 '"Wra+I *o. S '^^'■sal or basal awn; palea minute or 0. Lodicules 

 «X8€rted n ?f^^iens 2-3. Styles short or 0, stigmas long, laterally 

 n_^ • ^'•at» narrowly Hnear.— Species 8, tropics of Old World. 



cate. 



.^^t. I. Ple 



UROPLixis. Joints of rachis of spike rectangularly trun 



Stan 



ens 3 



olatus, Hock 



> gl- I linear d 



188 



^"^'ar. ASnT' o'^aT'^^ ^^™ed with very i 

 '*^tu8 S- ,3^7 ; I>'^thie Grass. N. IT. 



i^'"*-xviiin8..f (•,$,•,<'• Batratherum echinauuu., .,v.. -- - : ^ „, ,„, 



} ^""""^l^tl^ l^^^ •' W^^i- Gat. n. 8829 ; Aitchis. Cat Panjah PI. 174. 



?4;^^aS.^T ^•'^•' ^'9ht Gat.n.l6SL B. serrulatum H^cA.f. 



K'^l- Ca/rLfn* ^*-^**- »• 458. Andropogon echinatus, Ilcrh. Reyne 



% .... «f- n. 8829 ; Stmd. Nom. Ed. II. i. ill ; Edgew. in Journ. As. Soc. 



3d teeth. Hack. 

 A. echinatus & 

 in Edinb. Phil. 



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