Ardropcgon.] CLXXiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 167 



ht?e seen but one specimen, it is allied to A. impresstis, but is a much stouter plant, 

 3-4 ft. hiffli. 



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5. A. hlrtlflorus, Kunfh Bevis. Gram. ii. 569, t. 198, Enum. PL i. 

 «9; erect, stiff, leaves linear rigid, spathes long-peJuncled, spike 2-5 in. 

 glabrous or nearly so, sessile ppikelets |-4 in. narrowly lanceolate. A. 

 Pseudograyia, Steud. Syn. Gram. 365 ; Ifack. Monogr. Androp. 370. A. 

 zej'lanicus. Am. ex Benth. Fl. Honglc. 423 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368 ; 

 mm. Cat. Geyl. PL 107. A. semiberbis, Kunth Enum. I. c. Eottboellia 

 WBguinea, 5ef2. Obs. iii. 25. PPoliinia fulta, Dcsv. Opusc. 69; Back. 

 ••c. 392. Thelepogon sanguineus, Spreng. Syst. i. 299. Schizachyriam 

 zeylamcam, Am. I. c. S. hirtiflorum and semiberbe, Nees. Fl. Afr. 

 -^asfr. 334, 336. 



■ Khasu Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft., J.D.K. ^ T.T., Clarice. BiTKiiA, Kurz. 

 ^BjfiRAL Provinces, alt. 3-4000 ft. Ceylon —Distrib. Tonkin, China, Mada- 

 8*^» Trop. and S. Africa and America. 



thiolr^'-^^^^^* ^^^^^ tufted, 1-4 ft., simple or sparingly branched upwards, as 

 CK as a crow-quill or less, smooth, shiuing. Leaves chiefly radical, 2-6 in. by 

 'am?e°rt ^"^^ ^^^^^ ^^ acuminate; sheath compressed. Spathes 1-2 in., linear- 

 joinu h r^^*^^^*"' '^P'^^^ ^^^^^y very narrow,' subterete ; rachis stout, shining, 

 ■ironM t /^^^ ^^^ sesbile spikelets, outer or both margins ciliolate, tip hollowed 

 ft^s°ofth '^' ' ^'es*ii^ spikelets ^ in., very narrow, h:ilf sunk in the concave 

 5-Derved liT*^ ' ^^' ^ "*'^'™wly lanceolate, bicuapidate, dorsally rounded, faintly 

 *me ahn' ,/^*^^^^^^*te, acuminate, with a gibbous base, and a narrow ciliate dorsal 

 »cuminat '**^^^ ' ^^^ linear-oblong, acute, finibriate ; IV lobes narrow, 



infleied irr^ ^^*^^^"" Pedicelled spikelets, gl. I flat, subulate, awned, margins 

 >ith its'* • '^^*^"^-""^^^- Stapf has identified the Indim A. Pseudograyia 

 •inonviiif "*v*?^ *°*^ African species cited above, of which I have not given all the 

 J^^m which will be found in HackeFs Monograph, 



a sJtfe' ^\' Dii^CTOMis, IlacJc. Spikes solitary ; peduncle in the axil of 

 S«8n/e iij^; r ?^^^^^' i^^^ts and pedicels bucciniform, mouths toothed. 

 Med ir u 1 ^*^^'^^^y compressed, callus short; gl. I accumbent, 

 ^^dickedX J ^^^^^^ '^ong-^wned; '^^ 2-tootlied. awned in the sinus. 

 ,,,. ^2>ihelet twice as long and broad as the sessile and concealing it. 



^^'k 3fr!?***^*^*^»« ^^^- Prodr. Yea. Ind, Occ, 26, FL Ind. Occ. I 207; 

 ^'^c'<*i7r^o'z-4^^^^P- 393; Grueb. FL Brit W, Ind. 559. A. diatherus, 

 ^'<^ 'sZ ^r^^'^^P' PI' Ahyss. n. 2013 {non Steud.). A. Hochstetteri 

 ?^* i- 1. 64^ w c; ^^^- Diectomis fastigiat., H.B. <5' ^. ^'^^' f//^, * 

 I'^'MroiV' ^^^' ^eawy.); Plinth in Mem. Mus. Par, "(ISIS) 69; 

 ^'"i^ia fat- ?• ^^^ (^^^^ P^^^^'-) 5 Hack, in Mart FL Bras, ii II. 303. 

 '^''^e?'«*, in ^ 7 ^^ .' ^P^^^^ff' PugilL ii. 13. Heteropogon Hochstetteri, 



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^thiojp. 310. 



V^'i'^H.^'l^^^^^^ Chota Nagpore, ClarU. Duthie. Texasserim, Eeljer. 



''^feunial o ! * ^^^"a* Afr. and Amer. tron. 



^ ^^feunial c/, **"*' ■^*''- a"d Amer. trop. , , , , 



T^'^. leufv T ^'^^^^ ^»- ^o 3 ft., or decumbent below and fastigiately branched 



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u'P»« thickenpH ",^ ^^'^ spikelets ; gl. I l.near-lanceolate, bicuspidate and keeled 

 ft '*" tbe shorf' t"''"*^ ^ovi&vAs the top ; II shorter, cymbiform, 2.fid, awned 

 »W? ^^^ 8pikeWo° tt'® ^"bes, dorsally keeled and ciliate above, awu much lon^'er 

 ''^'tottt do*,! " liuear-oblong, margins ciliate ; IV cymbiform, 2,toothed 



"oj^al awn from below the tip; palea minute, hyaline. Fed%ceUed 



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