hdropgon:i CLxxiii. qramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 177 



ffimate,gll hot pitted sparsely hairy. Kunth Enum. PL i. 506. PA, 

 accWoides, Soxb. I.e. 263 {no7i Sw.), 



^ ^^f^^^CiBCARs, Roxburgh. 



Jtatrkabl 1 ^^ ^^*^^ ^^ ^ large crow-quill, creeping and nodose below. Leaves 

 •WathW^T^' ^ ^-^^^'^ ^^^^y ^" *^^*® upper side near the base only; mouth of 

 rtisDlanf- p ■^'^^^'^^^ 4-8 in., pale green. — There are two excellent drawings of 

 rticb th i" ^\^^^^^'s collection (Nos. 90 and 889) both marked A. montanus, in 

 ^^^^^^^tae lover branches of the panicle are 3.nate, the rest alternate, all bearing 



««^2017 o?^l* 1^"^ *° ^"^'^ '^°^- '^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ Roxburgh's drawings, n. 890 

 dierin^ann^ M / ^i^tter bears the name of saccharoides, represent a plant 

 "bortir tJ* i^"i^ ™ ^^^^'^^'^ only in the punicle being composed of simple 

 WoaVfA^ w ^^^^ ^^"^^^ spikes. The diflerence between the two forms is 

 ttach mor// 1 ^^^^^^ '^^ ^- intermedins, from which -4. wionfanws differs in the 

 ^PilWjioint r?^ ^^^®°P^^'^^^' ^"^ ^P^^^^ ^'^^^ minute spikelets, and in the 

 ^^wed with f.^^^ P^^^^^^s not being represented as compressed and as being laxljr 

 laiform in fill f , "^"^ ^P^^^^^ing hairs. As to this latter character, which is 

 ^^e seen no n? f *^''^^i^gs> allowance must be made for native artists' work. I 

 '^^^lored .P^^^^J'^se^bliug this species, which is a native of a region botanically 

 ^"^^el folW ^^^^^^g^'s day. It has obviously no affinity with that which 

 ^^Wh nrnT'l^ ^^titham, has described as montanus, Uoxb., and which plant 

 ,,,,1" probably never saw. 



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 ' ft? • 



(1889) i2C{°*°'**"S< ^««- Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. JSfat. Hist. Soc. iv. 

 *"'"3 nllon/T * ''^- (^891) 68, 203 ; aroniatic, stem stout, 



'"^"y denfiPi; t -^f }^^^ b^oad, sheaths compressed, spikes few or 

 F'^Wg 51{;i^*'^9^^ stipitate silky purplish, rachis and branches 



trun 



, callus densely silky, gl. I oblong- 

 pitted villous below the middle keels 



i**** 1-2 ft bv 1 1 • "^ " ^'^''"'8 quill at the base, sparingly branched, leafy. 

 5r?">8,tright Ll~^ '"•' "*»*» acuminate, scabeiulous on both surfaces and on tbe 



'«»nch, 



pper sheathing 

 cle 2-4 in.- 



S*A joints anJS T^^" ^"^ in. suberect. Blender, flexuous j spikes rather tena- 

 Sr''. callus/^-ri ,.^'*"^"^<* ^Ith a translucent centre, tips truncate. Sessile 

 22"""^^^, hvaHn ' ^^ "' '""g a« the gls. ; gl. I thin, rarely pitted, nerves slender 

 K^*"^-^"!! ott:r'^'^"'^5 II keeled, thin, obtuse or truncate, ciliate ; III 

 the bas'e 'p']^"^,f '«te, ^''"iate. nerveless ; awn about f in., faintly dilated 

 ^"^J-netv^ A sjaiieJefs as long as the sessile or rather longer; gl. i 



it 





^^«^rv4ss cnilf °"^'iy e''^^'-«"« ; HS-nened, ciliate; III shorter, oblong 

 ,i^'« spikeu! 1 T -The compressed sheaths, panicled spikes, villous gl. I of 



''""?'? r^SCf ^'^'^^' «^««» to distinguish this from A. Kuni^eanus, which 

 ^ "ies m a dry state. 



SS'^'y'"chtnn'!!li!F'''.«P^^'e^ets and ioints of rachis subterete, not or 

 '»«en«,N "aDuelled, with no tr«n«l„i«f. n.nt.rP. rSee also 20. con- 



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no translucent centre. (See also 20. con- 



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,.27. ^ - 



C'; ^ithTl^l^i,*'^' ^oxb. Fl. Ind. i. 265 ; annual, slender, leaves 

 C^'S almost t^^^./^^'^P^^s^ed, panicle oblong, branches subsolitary 

 G^^'^'tsand^^-^^ ^^«e sparingly divided, spikes slenoer sub- 

 S'^gi^ilyciliJi''^''"^' linear subterete or compressed not channelled 

 >? ««abrL; '^^^V?«s8'le spikelets ^ in., gl. 1 ovate-lanceolate fl<it 

 ^^1. Tu. ;:^°^8 or shming 7-S-nerYed^els shortly ciliate towards the 



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