170 CLxxiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [AJidropogon. 



awnil in. slender; palea small, linear-oblong, cUiate. Tedicelled spikelets narrower 

 aud rather smaller than the sessile, purplish; gl. 1 ovate-lanceolate, 2-cuspidftte, 

 keels lonx filiate above the niidtUe; II and III as in the sessile spikelet. — According 

 tp Haekel the Indian plant difft-rs from the African in the longer hairs of the joints 

 and pedicels aod in the more exserted peduncle of the spikes, but I find that these 

 and other minute characters are very inconstant. Homceathernm ehineuse, Neet, 

 included under A, a^ricuSy is, I think, certainly A. fastigiatus. 



11. A. long-ipes, Hack in Flora (1885) 138; annual, stem slender 

 ascending, leaves linear and sheaths sparsely hirsute, spites 2 both stipitate, 

 peduncle naked (spatheO), joints many and pedicels rather stout subclavate 

 tips cupped shortly ciliate, sessile spikelets \ in. dorsally compreased 

 oblong-lanceolate, gl. I broadly nnequally winged above the middle anstu- 

 late, II long-awned, lY obovate cleft to the middle, awned between the 

 lobes. 



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KiLGHiEi HiLLS^ Terroitei. 



Stems 12-16 in., decumbent below, nodes glabrous. Leaves 4-6 by h^ ^°» 

 hairs tubercle-based; ligule very short. Spikes 2-3 in., rather stout, deuse- 

 iiU., green; joints and pedicels — ^ the sessile spikelet, concavo-convex, margins 

 rounded. Spikelets imbricating, callus short, obtuse, bearded ; gl. I dorsally sparsely 

 hairy and depressed or convex, many-nerved, wing produced beyond the summtj 

 serrulate; 11 ciliate, 3-nerved, lateral nerves snbmarginal, tip 2-toothcd, ke*^ 

 scaberulous, awn as long as the gl. ; III hyaline, 2-nerved, copiously ciliate ; y^ 

 long as III; lobes lanceolate, acuminate; awn J in., glabrous. Pedicelled tfpik^^^^ 

 as long as the sessile, male; gl. 1 shortly awntd, 6-7-nerved; II membranous, 3- 

 nerve<J; III and IV linear-oblong, ciliate. — I have seen only one specimen. TbiSi 

 I think, is a doubtful member of the subgenus, the peduncle not arising from a distinc 

 flattened spathe, 



tt Glume II of sessile spihelets not awned. 



12. A. pumilus, Roxh. FL Ind. i. 273 ; stem pan Icnlately branched, 

 leaves narrow, spikes in pairs, joints and pedicels clavate or trumpet- 

 shaped, scBsile spikelets dorsally compressed, gl. I very narrow lanceolate 

 deeply channelled between the thickened keels, IV very narrow bisetose. 

 A'untA Enum, PL i. 492 ; Steud. Syn. aram. 388. A. demissus, SteudA.c. 

 A. geminatus, Herb, Buss, ex Wall. Cat n. 8798 C. A. humilis, Tfignt 

 Gat, n. 1701. A. caesius a, Nees ex Wight l.c, n. 1700. A. hirtus, Heme 



in Herb. Roth. A. pachyarthrus, Hack. Monogr, Androp. 449; ^jf 

 Grass. NJV. hid. 21, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. t. 39.— Andropogon, WaL^- 

 Cat, n. 8798, A. B. C, 8799. 



Drier parts of India. Nepal, Wallich, ^^c. ; from Banda in EajpootANA, and 

 Surat to the Ckntr \l Puovinces and Coromandel. > 



Annual or perennial? Stem B-18 in. hi^^h, slender, suberect or geniculite an 

 decumbont below; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., rarely ^ in. broad, soinctim 

 almost filiform, acuminate, glabrous; sheath compressed, keeled; liguIe shor » 

 truncate. Spikes ^-| in., in pairs terminating a very slender peduncle which ari^t 



jy/ih-ttcrta ^ III. ; caiius giaorous ; gl. 1 memoranous, acuminate, oicuspiu.in?, — 

 ribs often ending below in 2 tubercles ; II as long, narrowly lanceolate, mucrouat , 

 coriaceous; III shorter, linear, hyaline, 2-nerved ; IV very narrow, cUft into tw 

 capillary -lobes with an interposed capillary awn -J-J in. long; palea nnnuy 

 oblong. Pedicelled spikelets i-^ in,, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved; ^^^'' 

 —An excellent figure amongst Roxburgh's drawings attests Hackel's A- p^^ ^' 

 arthrus being A, pumilns. The peduncle of the spike is sometimes 2 in. lo"ft* 

 Wallich's n. 8799 is very tall and slender, as if drawn up amongst other plants. 



