ifiSropoffon.] CLXXiii. ora.minej!. (J. D. Hooker.) 



179 



Mrop.mi Lishoa in Journ. Bomh. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. (1889), vi. (1891) 69. 

 A. alternans, Presl Reliq. Esenk. i. 342 ; Kunth JSnum. I. c. 602. A. cceru- 

 tescens, Kmth I. c. 504. A. capilliflorus, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 58. 

 A. pamspica, Steud. I. c. 397. A. eerratus, Miq. Prolus. FL Jaj). i. 192. 

 A^^atheram pamflorum, Spreng. Syst. i. 290. Chrysopogon violascens, 

 2n». t» fc. 4cad. Petersl. Ser. VI. ii. (1893) 319. Sorghum parviflornm, 

 5 *"*?• ^^Roem. 8r Sch. Sj/at. ii. 840. Rhaphis coeralescens, Desv. Opusc. 69. 

 r """crostachya, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 397. Holcus coeralescens, Gaud, in 

 ^reyc. Voi,. Bot. 411, t. 27. H. parviflorus, Br. Frodr. 199. 



Westeen Himalaya, from the Ravi to Kumaon, alt. 4-6000 ft. Khasia 

 Disn,,' p' » ^'^•' ^^f^^e- The NiLGHiEi, Concan and Deccan Hills.— 



Am'iji f ^'^^^^^^'^y''' ^"st^'a^'a. S. Africa. 

 Wd^ r ** thick as a crow-quill or thicker, terete, nodes more or Jesa 



*ith toL , '^J;^* ^"^2 by l-\ in., setaceously acuminate, flat, more or less hairy 

 tijcht- ,.'*""*^^<i hairs, surfaces and margins scabernlous, base rounded; sheaths 

 ^ciw " ^ ' truncate. Panicle 2-6 in., oblong or pyramidal ; rachis and 

 reJ.brown^- /"^' P®''f®<^% smooth, flexuous. Spikes \-\ in., pale yellow violet or 

 •mail call ■'"? 11 *"*^ pedicels slender often ciliate on one margin only. Spikelets 

 111 ttig '"*?**l'ately bearded; gl. I narrowly truncate, 4-6-nerved, scaberulous in 



»eaminaf/*°'"'*'^* ^ ^^"^^ examined; margins narrowly inflexed; II lanceolate, 

 Itti- IV °'" °"i<=^onate, scaberulous, 1-3-nerved ; III short, obtuse, eciliate, nerve- 

 7.MrTe</Z" '"^ ^"* ^etJ»c««e(f spikelets male, callus naked; gl. I oblong, 

 ivaline 'iv '"^'"^ ^^^^^^ inflexed; II oblong, obtuse, 3-5 -nerved ; III oblong. 



Wdice 



icellLi ir, f^^^^"^' awuless.— Spikes often reduced to 3 spikelets, a sessile and 2 

 "" form -IT^ ^^^^ "-^^ ^^^^^ Hackel's synonymy and authorities for the non- 



'^- ^kTZTh" ^'t^ ^^^^ ^"^^^^^^^^ in each spike. It is very difficult to distiuguisli 

 , ^^^us from small forms of ^. assimilis. I have seen no specimens from 





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"^^M '»Jd u "*' Hack. l.c. 490; usually much stouter, sheaths bearded at the 

 .^osnlos .vi! L*'c, 'P^'^^y ^airy, gl. I of sessile spikelets often hispidu ous A. 

 ■~<Tillolf '^; '^*^- <?'•'»'"• 397 ; Lisboa in Bomb. Journ. Nat. Bid. vi. (1891) 69 



: ;.., '"• -t^. a., &c. Khasia Hilla, Qriffilh. 



'5<w). Chrfsopogon viUosulilsr^rJ 



ntanus, Bv^thie Fodd. ... - . , 



Kumaon, Boyle, &c. Rajputana, Mt, Aboo, DutUe. Behar, on 





ex Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind.2i {exd 

 ras^s. N. Ind. 40. Bhaphis viUosula 



30. A. 



"^ffnitic^'sp f i?*?"«. ^^''^^- *■« Zoll. Sysf. Verz. 58 ; Syn. Gram. 397 ; 

 ^^eaNlanc!!! f*'g'**«ly branched from a decumbent base, leafy, leaves 

 ^ PJrainiI»i °^^°^ narrowed to the base, lower sheaths open, branches 



P^cel 



2- 



nerved 



narrowly trtincat 



iddle 





«apiUaceu8 



Wall 



Sanff 



^'•-^Chrv'soSf * ^-^e^*- ^-^ -T^i^- 22. Rhaphis repene, iV^^e* <;■= Steud. 

 T«iiPr "■ ^''^- ""• ^^^^' ^^^^' ^^^^' ^^^^" 



^frtf'i'^^.Slf*''*'^"' ^°™ Kashmir to Sikkim. ascending to 5^00 fL The 

 fc*^ RifpS*''^*^ H'"s. Behae; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 fL Bubma, 



¥^'«- Jav^^u?*^^> ^"^''^e. The De(^an and Centkai India, 5^«y, &c.- 



"^"^-'O'MiS^V.'^ ^- «' «"«"; ^^ t''5ck as a goose-quill at the base^ard, 



"mes prohferously branched here and there, nodes more or less bearded. 





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