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172 CLXxiii. GEAMiNEiE. (J. H. Hooker.) [Andropogon. 



Lehm. Ind. Sem. JTort. Hamb. 1828 ; NeesFl Afr. Austr. 106. A. villosus. 

 a, Lamk. Fl. Fr. iii. 364. 



North West India, from Kashmir and West Tibet to Kunawur, ascending 

 to 12,000 ft.—Disxjt IB. Westward to S. Europe, and tropics generally or sporadi- 

 cally. , 



Stems 2-3 ft., erect or genicnlately ascending, subsimple, naked above ; noaei 

 naked or shortly bearded. Leaves 1-2 ft. by tVH ^"-^ glabrous or hairy above, 

 especially towards the base, glaucous, scaberulous above, base rounded; sheath loose; 

 ligule very short. Spikes unequal, 1^-3 in., shortly stipitate, usually purpli^n. 

 SesMile spikelets, gl. I dorsally flat; II lanceolate, mucronulate, keels s*^abnd above; 

 III oblong-lanceolate, acute, ciliate ; IV awn ^-f in. Pedicelled spikelets nsuaUV 

 darker than the sessile, male; gl. I lanceolate, Q-nerved, glabrous, keels ciUate 

 above; II linear-lanceolate, 5-7-nerved ; III linear-oblong, obtase, ciliate ; 1 V very 



narrow. 





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15. A. PsendlBcliaemum, Xees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 380; tall 



nodes bearded, leaves narrow pruinose beneath, sheaths terete, spikes ^ 

 gtipitate slender flexuous, rachis smooth, joints and pedicels a little shorter 

 than the spikelets silky, sessile spikelets l~\ in. lanceolate, callus hairs 

 very short, gl. I imperforate sparsely silkily villous below the mid'He 

 7-9-nerved, keels ciliate. Hack. Monogr, Androp. 477. A. annulatus » 

 quinqueflorus, Keyne in Herb. RottL A. Ischaemum, Roxb, FL Ind. ^-^jf 

 A. oryzetorum, Hack. L c. A. pentaatachyus & undulatus, Ifej/ne ex Wal . 

 Cat n. 8815 A. A. scandens, Thw. Enum. FL ZeyL 368 ijion Boxh) ; Inm. 

 Cat CeyL PL 107. 



The Deccan Pkkinsula, Eeyne^ &c. Coromandel, Soxburyh. Cetio5» 

 Thwaiies, ^ . ' 



^ Stem 2-3 ft., terete glabrous. Leaves 6-10 by ^-^ in., glabrous or fimbriaw 

 with long hairs towards the base, upper surface and margins soabrid, lower glaucous y 

 pruiiiose, lateral nerves prominent ; upper margins of the sheath membranous , 

 ligule very abort, ovate, membranous. Spikes flexuous or erect, 2-4 in. long,au 

 green, subracemose, common rachis smooth, axils bearded, special peduncles i-i i°;' 

 joints and pedicels slender. Sessile spikelets \-\ in, • gl. I minutely truncate, tip 

 hyaline, keels closely ciliolate and with a few long marginal hairs; II ^^.^^^'1* f^ 

 nerved; III hyaline, oblong, ciliate, 2.nerved or nerveless; IV awn J-f in-i °*^ 

 obscurely dilated, palea 0. Pedicelled, spikelets longer than the sessile, lanceolate 

 gl. I 9-nerved, glabrous dorsally, keels scaberulous and ciliate; II 5-7-nerved; 11 

 ovate-oblong; IV minute or 0. — The spikelets vary a good deal in size. *»* 

 pruinose uudcrsurface of the leaves is a very marked character. Iloxburfirb*s ^2^^ 

 of his A, Ischcemum has awns an inch long, hut allowance must be made for ^^''^ 

 artists' work. I have seen only a single specimen of A. oryzetorum^ the spikes a 

 very long and flexuous. Hackel distinguishes it from Pseudischeemum by the leav 

 being scabrous on both surfaces, which they are not in the specimen I have examine 



16. A. coxupressus, Rook. f.\ stem tall robust compressed, nodes 

 glabrous, leaves long broad flat, sheaths compressed keeled, spikes very 



many densely snbcorymbosely panicled pale tiexnous silky, joints a^ 

 pedicels very slender, sessile spikelets ^ in. ovate-lanceolate, calhis ^^l^^T* 

 J-J thespikelet, gl. I imperforate 6-7-nerved villous below the midaW» 

 keels minutely scabrid. 



The DkoCam, Litboa (No. 6. A. odoratus), Woodrow. . j 



Stem 3-4 ft., as thick as a goose-quill at the base, erect, sparingly ^"^^^^ .. ' 

 leafy. Leaves l~li ft. by J-J in., finely acuminate, slightly scaberulous on to 

 margins and both surfaces, a little hairy towards the base ; sheaths strongly coi»^ 

 pressed and acutely keeled, uppermost forming a lanceolate spathe 4-6 in. long ^ 

 the base of the paaiclc j ligule a ciliate membrane. Fascicles of spikes 4-5 in- 1^"^'' 



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