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1G8 CLXxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J, D. Hooker.) lAndropogon. 



gpilcelets neuter ; gl. I ovate-lanceolate, twisted, acuminate, 2 cuspidate and awn^, 

 ciliate, green, luauy-nerved ; II much smaller, thin, acuminate, awned, III still 

 »mi\!ler, oblong, hyaline,— I have examined spikeleU of the type of Homceathetitm 

 chinense, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 239, which is certainly not 

 Androjp. apricuSf as supposed by Hackel, but very close to A, fasligiatusy if not the 

 same. 



Subgen. III. Htpogtnium, ffach. Spikes solitary, peduncled in tie 

 axil of a spathiform leaf-sheath; joints and pedicels slender, topi 

 obliquely truncate. Seasile spikelets dorsally compressed; gl. I with 

 inflexed or involute keeled margins; TI ke« led, awnless ; III hyahne or 

 0; IV a simple awn (in the Indian species), Pedicelted spikelets lik« 



the sessile. 



Hrtckel's section Pstvdanilxistirid forms one of the most distinct genera oi Andro* 

 pogonecSy with characters of in Horescence and spikelets totally at variance with ui' 

 characters of Hi/pogynium. He however observes its affinity with Anthistiria, near 

 to which genus I place it. 



7. JL. foveolatus, Del. Fl. Egypi.lQ^,, t. 8, f. 2 ; densely tufted, basal 

 sheaths silkily villous, spikes 3-6 elongate erect, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 smooth with usually a deep dorsal pit. Kuvth Enum. PI A. 490; Sact 

 Monogr. Androp. 402; Dulhie Grass. N.W. Ind. 20, Fodd. Grass. N- 

 Ind. 34, t. 21 ; Aitchis. Cat Panjah. PI. 176. A. strictus, RoxK FL ^j- 

 i. 260. A. Orthos, Schult, Mant. ii. 455. A. monostachyus, Spreng. Pugi^^- 

 ii. 9. A. ramosus, Heme ex Wall. Cat, n. 8802. — Andropogon, WalL Cat 

 8802. 



Drier parts of India, from the Panjnb and Sind to Bengal, Chota KaGPOBB, 

 CENiaAt* Provinces, Ciilcars and Ooromandel.— Distrib. Westwards to tue 



Cape de Yeid Islds. 



8tfm 1-2 ft., simple or suhfastigiately hranched above, as thick as a sparrow 

 quill ; nodes sparingly bearded. Leaves very uarrow, sometimes almost filiform* 

 rigid, scaberulous beneath, sheaths shorter than the internodes, scabrous or 

 glabrous; ligule short, truncate, hyaline, ciliolate. Spikes 1-1^ in.; peduucle* 

 capillary, erect, usually far exserted beyond the very elender sputhe ; joints ao<* 

 petlicels slender, villous. Sessile and pediceUed spihelets subequal I—} in-, li^^*l" 

 ohiong, subacute, purplish, glabrous except the shortly villous callus, shining; P-^ 

 flat, 4-7-nerved, keels scabrid ; II as long, 3-nerved, acute; III much shorter, 

 glabrous, nerveless ; IV awn i-| in. long, very faintly margined towards the base. 

 PediceUed spikelet rufous or purplish, neuter; gls. 2, I subacute, dorsally pitted or 

 not, keels scabrid, 5-nerved, glabrous; II linear-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved. 



8. A. tuberculatus^ Hack. Monogr. Androp. 404; tall, stout, basal 

 sheaths glabrous, spikes solitary long-peduucled erect, gl. I oi sedsUe 

 spikelet lanceolate keels and nerves tubercled not pitted. 



Ckntral Protixcks; in the Khandua and Betul districts, Dutliie ; Asiu«gar^» 

 Kuntze. 



Stem 4-6 ft., stout, stiff, pale yellow, shining, paniculately branched, nod^ 

 glabrous. Leaves 1-2 ft. by ^ in., rather rigid, glaucous, strongly closely n*'^^^^' 

 setaceously acuminate, base narrowed, scabrid, midrib very broad; sheath q^^^ 

 smooth; ligule large, membranous, auricled. Spikes 1-lf in. Panicle leafy i 

 spathes very narrow, scabrid with tubercle-based hairs; peduncle 2-4 i".» *^"*7| 

 scabrid; joints and pedicels very slender, ciliate with long hairs. Sessile spi^^^r. 

 I in., linear-lanceolate, callus shortly bearded; gl. I lanceolate, tip narro*^ 

 irnntate, dorsally flat, 3-7-nerved, margins narrowly inflexed, keels and nerv^ 

 iuberculate ; II membranous, lanceolate, acute, l-nerved, ciliate ; III linear, ac"'*' 



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