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OLXXiii. GRAMiNB^, (J. D. Hooket.) l^Andropogoh. 



Leaves 2J-6 by -^^^ in., setaceously acuminate, rather flaccid, glabrous or sparsely 

 hairy on both surfaces, margins subserrulate ; sheaths usually bearded at the moutb, 

 upper appressed, lower opRU and often divaricate; Ugule obscure. Panicle 2-5 in., 

 triangular, ternately branched; rachis and branches capillary, glabrous, axils more 

 or less bearded. S))!^*?."? :}-^ J in., joints and pedicels very slender, hairs not longer 

 than the joint. Spikelets pale green; gl. I membranous, margins incurved some- 

 timt'S cil ate with a few very long hairs, flat or concave towards the centre; II 

 acute, margins nearly glabrou*^, keel flattened ciliohite ahovp ; III ovate, obtuse, 

 glabrous ; IV awn |-J in., slender, base acute. PediceUed spikelets larger than the 

 sessile, male or neuter ; gl. I linear-lanceolate, green or reddish, glabrous or ciUate, 

 7-nerved, keels ciliolate ; II 3-5-nerved ; III J shorter, oblong, glabrous, nerveless; 

 IV 0. — I have seen no Javanese or other authentic specimens, and hence assume the 

 correctness of Hackel's identification of the Indian plant with it. It in certainly 

 not Eoxburgh's A, montanus. 



31. A. Bugrelil, Bade Monogr. Androp. 492 ; stem erect branching 

 from the base, nodes bearded, leaves mucfi narrowed below or petioled 

 linear scaberulous, panicle ovate-oblong, spikes with 2-3 pairs of spikelets, 

 joints shortly ciliate, sessile spikelets ^-^ in., gl. I oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate glabrous or villous below the middle 7-nerved tip truncate keels 

 ciliate with Ions' hairs, III minute ovate. Lisboa in Journ, Bomh,}i<it 

 BisL Soc, vi. (1891) 69. 



CEKTBAIi 



2i-3i ft. 



Western Himalaya ? Euegel, Rajpootana, on Mt. Aboo, King, &c. 

 India and the Central Peovincks, Buthiey &c. 



Stem shortly creeping or sufFrutescent below, often red, branches 

 Leaves 4-10 by J-^ in., acuminate, pubemlous beneath, margins scaberulous some- 

 times ciliate with long hairs ; sheath slightly compressed ; ligule short, ^^^ 

 branous, ciliate. PaniclQ 2-3^ in,, shining", branches capillary, axils softly bearded. 

 Spikes about \ in. long, green or purplish ; gl. I of sessile spikelets truncate, 

 cbartaceous, dor>ally polished, margins narrowly incurved, cilia of keels very 

 variable in length; II glabrous, truncate, apiculate, ciliate, keel much thickened; 

 III minute, ovate, glabrous; awn of IV \~\ in., base very slender. Pedicell^^ 

 spikeUU rather longer than the sessile, lanceolate, green or purple ; gl. I ^^|' 

 nerved, keels and back ciliate; II as long, acuminate, 5-nerved, ciliate; III nearly 

 as long, hyaline, oblong, obtu^ie, glabrous; IV very narrow. — I have seen no typica 

 specimen of this plant which Hackel described from Huegel's specimens, of which tbe 

 habitat is unknown. The gL III he describes as absent, an oversight, as itispresen 

 in spikelets of the type kiiully procured from Vienna for me by Dr. Stapf, and m 

 those collected by King, Duthie and others. Lisboa 1. c. 69 describes a van jcetid^ 

 Hark. mss. as common all over the Bombay Presidency, and as having a s*^^/^ 

 very pleasnnt smell. I fail to find any characters in the specimens I have examine<ii 

 or in the descriptions given, to distinguish it from A, Hngelii, except that according 

 to Lisboa the pctlicelled spikelet of fcetidus has no gL IV. 



32. A. Schmidil, JToofc. /. ; stems subaimple or branching belo^ 

 ascending leafy, nodes bearded, leaves lanceolate acuminate rigid ecabn 

 above base suddenly contracted, sheaths terete smooth, panicle contracte^» 

 branches jshort erect, '^" — ^:u-.i.,i-~ i ji — i-i -ia — ^^r^trAt i>-'' 



isile spikelets broadly oblong obtuse convex o^ 

 nerved between the very shortly ciliate and sparsely hairy keels, ™*^^^j 

 narrowly incurved, II broadly oblong glabrous 3-nerved, HI very sniai 

 ovate, lY a slender awn. 



NiLGHiRi Hills ; Schmid ; Nadavatnm, in pastures, alt, 6000 ft., Latcson. 

 Stem 3-4 ft., rather stout, red-brown, smooth. Leaves 3-5 by ^-J »"., ""y 

 acuminate, midrib strong, scabrid above with sometimes tubercle-based ^^Jf^j^ 

 'ecaberulous beneath, mnrgins scaberulous ; sheath long, mouth bearded ; hg^ 

 'obscure. Panicle 2-1 in., loosely or densely branched ; branches and brancm« 



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