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Y 



Mrop'-^oft.] ■ cLxxiii. GBAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 185 



^nitc smooth. Leaves \-^ in. broad, flaccid, flat, margins smooth, nerves 3-5 on 

 wfh side of the slender midrib ; sheaths of lower short open, of the upper long 

 htber loose, quite glabrous ; ligule very short, membranous, glabrous. Panicle 2-4 

 a J raohis and branches stifl", angular, subscaberulous, rather stout, green. Spiles of 

 Wpairsofrather distant white spikelets joints = | the sessile spikelet, stout, shortly 

 nuous truncate, pedicels= i the spikelet, more slender. Sessile spikelet terete; callus 

 wjBfiort, stellatelv hpnrrlPf^ wUh „.i.;f^ i.„;«. . ^i t ^^^ n ^^ry coriaceous both with 



ImTin l^^!l* similarly densely silky white spikelets, has been collected by 



Wmn?l >^ /^^^^* ^^'^''^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^^^ *^^ ^^ cultivated. It is a stout plant 

 ire 8^ ■ **^^' 



ttanicl 



m li 1 ^- ""^'*» wuere u is statea to De cuiuvatea. xc is a hluuc/ piunu 



ffincn larger leaves and the habit of the ordinary Sorghum. The spikelets 



^jrter and broader than in ^. Sfai?>', and are collected in a dense oblong 



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Bnear" S' ^®''**"8, T/iunh. Fl. Jap. 41 ; tall, erect, leaves narrowly, 

 »W1p,1 '^^ narrow, lower branches of subsimple narrow elongate panicles 

 TillorwiK . "'''^^'^y 2-8-iointed, joints pedicels and callus shortly 

 w \in^2\ 1 ^? ^^ P^^P^® ^^^'■^' ^«3sil« spikelets i-J- iri- ovoid elliosoid 

 'iortlr ,„^ ^' ^^- -^ rnfoTisly hirsute towards the pa 

 ^l. 238 ^^ awnless. ^acfc. ifono^r. Androp. 5^ 



^athwTdfeV^'^^^' ^° ^^^ ^^^^3 ^"<J Pl^i^s from the Paujab to Burma, and 



Perennial J.^^^ ^"^ ^^^ Nicobar Islds.— Distrib. Asia and Austral trop, ^ 



t:«..^.,.u '.^^^^n 3-4 ft., subsimple, nodes bearded. Leaves 4-20 by |^f in., 



'^'' ^ ' - - hairs often 



or less 



oblong, 

 icabernlous, 



sessile 



^**'«;1V Binair Ki "-^j "'-utf, i-nerveu, nairy upwaras; ixx suuitei, x....- --•«—, 

 ^I^ts narrow./ M^' *^''^^^^ ^^ 2-Iobed, awned or not. Lodicules ciliate. Fedivelled 

 ^^'i IV linear dr fV^ sessile, paler, hairy ; gl. I 7-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; III 



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cleft. A. 



^» linear, eiliafp t? l "^"r > l'"'*''^' "'^^''y ' e'' ^ '""*" * ,' • 

 "•jenui»i/? h" 1 °* ^^^^ '^"^'^ '^ot seem to have known this grass. 

 ., 'H Ihunh 1 / • ' ^^- ^^ of sessile spikelet 2-lobed, awned in the 



i *'to>antb£ i? '. ^^'"- ^«""^- P^- Zeyi 366 ; B«n«/i. Fl. EongJt. 423. 

 i'^-^^chs',--'^- '"* ^0"- Svst. Ferz. 58. Sorghum i^^^^'^' f '"'"': '^ 

 ^- ^""ehuhnii I '• "i,840 ; Bentn. Ft. Austral, vii. 541 ; Trim. Cat.Ceyl. Fl 108. 



. /*'• »''«dw H ■ f ^'"^- ^'^'- »'• 783. Holcus fulvus, Br. J 

 7 P«<iictllati,« c, • I ^^- ^^- of sessile spikelet entire not a 

 fc'*'.c.502 A •'^- ^^"- ^'•«"»- 394. A. fuscus, Fresl ...« ---.^ -_ - 



^^^ Cat. D 2o,ft r"*- ^- ''■ 510. Sorghum halepense, Tfa^. Cat. 8878 E. C^ ; 

 5; ZkH,;. A*^"*^". S. muticum. ;Vi.,. .„ w.^f. Wi..ht . Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PU 



Holcus fulvus, Br. ProJr. 199. , 

 .:u„i.,^ -.„^;>„ r,«f awned. A. consimilis 



Kel Hatilc. i. 342; 





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hT„ •^- ^'"^- 23- Chrysopogon fuscus, Trtn. ex Siet^.J^-""- Ed. 

 , S «^ q»>"queflorus, Herb. Ham, ex IFall. Cat. n. 8778 G.- 

 ' ^''"- <^af. n. 8879. 



|„"J»»^?;eo-serlceus, TToc^Jsf. co; A. Rich. Tent Fl. Ahysf. 

 ■' '"^bust, upper nodes villous, branches of subsimple pamcle 



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