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^ndropogon.] CLXxm. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 



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Mms; ly awn ^-| in. Pedicelled spikelets male, gl. I strongly nerved ; IV 0. 



A Tery handsome grass. 



~-"6!^J. lY. Aethrolophis. SpiJces 2-nate digitate or su"bpauiculate^ 

 ^acommou peduncle arising from a spathiform sheath; joints few or 

 WkIi^^'^^ or bucciniform (slender in A. tristis), tipa capillar with 

 wotbed margins. Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed ; gl. I not awned, 

 fySiQsinflexed, keeled ; II dorsally keeled, awned or not; III hyaline ; 

 fJi^nj "^ ^^^^ ^^ interposed awn, or reduced to a simple awn. 

 u" 'P'^-elets usnally unlike the sessile ; gl. I awned or not— A 

 J^terogeneoas assemblage. 



ouir*^-?^^P'^^^ ^°^ pedicels of upper spikelets rather slender; gl. II 

 « sessile spikelet not awned. 



Hach. Mo 



^rSlli T \^ ^'^ subsessile on the peduncle, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 2-Sd. ■ ^^^^ depressed between the thickened sides, lY very narrow 



^fSA^I^^^^^^^ HtMALAYA, alt. 8-1000 ft., from Kas^hrair to Garwhsh 



f the sessile spikelet 

 sessile i in., very narrow ,•: 



P«inncle2-^ ^ I ' "^"^® obJong, membranous. *S; 



^%clavflfP V^ I ^ ^®^y narrow; joints and pedicels 



^'l"" haira V i.^ ^ ciliate. Spikelets loosely imbricate, sessiie t in., vei j "»..^.. ,- 

 ^ °«rroffIv nlr ^ ^^* • ^^- I '"'^'■e or less scaberulous margins broadly m flexed? 

 ^^^»te- IV«; x^* apiculate, ciliate, keel subscaberulous ; III lanceolate, 2.nerved, 

 ^^ «es'sile r? ol^^ ^"^ ^ ' P«l^« minute, quadrate. Pedicelled spikekU as long as 

 '^Paleateor : ''^''''^^' I^ i-^-^e^ved ; III hyaline; lV2.fid and mucronate 



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W °^^-^ °^ ^P^es and pedicels of upper spikelets clavate or baccini- 



^^siefderT*'''^^' ^'^«- ^" ^em. ^carf. Pe^ersfe. fi-er. YI. iv. (1836) 83; 

 Uniform' cT?^ J^''^ narrow, spikes 2-5 hispidulous, joints and pedicels 

 ?g-awned ivl-n. ®^^^^®^Pii^el..t3 linear 2-cu8pidate or 2-aristulate, U 



haf ;: -.^'^^ bifid awTi«<1 Kr.+ ™„ — 4.1 ;i:„4.„ i^V^^c TTnck.in Mart. M L. 



ITack. Mo 



457. A. 



■-luoais f/n 7 • "t"^^"» t«'. inaicus, JlacK. luonuyi. ^ 



"^'^fOEE /oi'T^'l- ^^^^^ ^^^ •^- ^- ^i- 4- T. T. {Herb. M. 

 '>• Tro; 7/-"^^'''"' ^'t- 7500 ft., Clarke. P£60 ; in the Eng forest, Lurz 

 «S 3^7, ^"'r'^ and America. , , . 



1-3 ft v' " "f .. sparingly branched upwards, quite smooth, nodes glabrous 

 «• by ^_i •' — t- ' ' „f „ f^w hairs at the base 



*^^ rpf^"-iy ^~i >n-. erect 



t, coriaceous, glabrous except a few hairs at the base^ 

 27' ^'Piie iihU """''T"' ^i'P" spathiform, very slender, tips setaceous, lower 

 t^ "'•. filiform ^"^' ''''^^««' cI>artaceous. injiorescence .abpan.cled • peduncle 

 ^!^"'" in each f •^"^°"^' ^^^^thed aln)ost up to the spikes. Spiles ^1 in., ve,-y 



Teel! rip'"' ''fry shortly stipitate.hairs or cilia rigid setitonn brown.sb 

 iceishalfas 1nn„ „.„i „1 u-t.j .' ^i. . .-i,, <=,.;bplpts. cuaeately cam- 



U>. biS nl «.' ^"'^^ "'"» "^^ broad as the sessile spikelets, cuneately cam- 

 ?''"'». SeS°'''.^'-^al'7rou"^«d. glabrous or Bcaberulous, sules cihate w. b 

 ?i''t'' Wlv t^^^^-^*^ ^i in- ; calTus conical, rigidly bearded ; gl. I deep^ 

 tB keels; 11 7* ^'^'* ^'^"^"d above the middle, thickened beIo«-, nerves 2.DHte 

 ^^ «« Wlf TT,"'!''«^' margins ciliate, keel setulose at the top, tip 2-fia, awn «» 

 , _^. Ill linear, hyaline, broadly ciliate; IV shorter, oblong, l-nervea. 



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