188 CLXXiil. QRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) lAndropogoi 



few or many in a whorl flexuone, spikes subsolitary, joints pedicels apd 

 callus villous with long white or red brown hairs, sessile spikelets J in. 

 oblong-ovate, gl. I 5-7 -nerved villous all over tip acute, II 2-fid, awn lon^ 

 stout. Sack, Monogr. Androp. 524. Sorghum purpureo-sericeum, Aich 

 & Schweinf. Beitr, FL Mthiop. 310. S. Kitchiei, Munro mss. 



The Deccan ; Belgaum, Ritchie. N. Canara, JFoodrow. Centeal Peotincks, 

 Duthie. — DiSTKiB. Abyssinia. 



Stem 3-4 ft., erect; stout or slender. Leaves 8-10 by i-J in., linear, finely 

 acuminate, sparsely hairy, margins hardly scabrid ; sheath, ribbed, glabrous or 

 margin fimbriate, month villously silky ; ligule very short, ciliate. Panicle 4^^ 

 in,, erect; racbis glabrous ; branches J-1 in., capillary. SpiJces 1-1^ in., rarely of 

 3 joints, sometimes of one sessile and 2 pedicelled spikelets, joints about i the 

 sessile spikelet. Spikelets erect or spreading or pendulous, dorsally flattened; gl- i 

 coriaceous, margins involute from base to apex, keels rounded, villi red-brown of 

 snow-white; II as long as I, acuminate or aristulate, dorsally rounded, coriaceoas; 

 III hyaline, epaleate, 2-nerved, ciliate ; IV very fragile, 3-nerved, below the middle 

 ciliate with long hairs; awn 1-1^ in., column stout red-brown twisted glabrous; 

 palea minute, ciliate. Pedicelled spikelets usually shorter paler and narrower than 

 the sessile; gl. I thinner, 7-nerved, shortly silky ; II and III as in the sessile; IV 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, ciliate, male. — The Indian differs from the Atnan 

 plant in having rather smaller spikelets, in gls. I and II of the sessile not or 1^** 

 scariofie at the tip. The pubescence of the spikelet is more copious and P*ire *u'^ 

 in a Deccan specimen from Woodrow, and in a Panjab ? one from Stewart. Hacte 

 has named Duthie's specimens ^. purpureo-sericeus var. variegatus, 



Snbgen. YI. Vetiveeia, HacJc. Spikes panicled, branches of panicle 

 many, whorled; joints 3 or more and pedicels linear filiform dorsal J 

 convex not channelled, tip truncate. Sessile spikelets laterally or ^^rsailj 

 compressed, awned or not; gl. I coriaceous, narrow, margins infleiedor 

 involute, keels muricate; II awned or not; III hyaline; IV entire or 



wned. Lodicules glabrous. 



beard of rigid hairs o« 



But distinguished from Chrysopogon by the absence of a beard of rigid ^aiwo 

 the tip of the branchlets, seen after the fall of the spike. -^. venustus is removed w 

 ^mphilophis. 



40. A. sqnarrosna, Linn. f. Suppl. 433 ; stem stout, leaves lojj 



rigid, sheaths strongly compressed, panicle narrow, branches simple stnct* 

 spikes many-jointed joints and pedicels glabrous, sessile spikelets 1^^^*/' 

 oblong glabrous, gl. I coriaceous acute dorsally flat, margins ^'"^^ l*^ 

 inflexed muricate, IV linear-oblong mncronate or shortly awned. v^ 

 Si/mb Ail 9 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 542; Lishoa in Bomb. Jbwrw. ^^• 

 Hist vi. (1891) 67. A. muricatus, iZe^z. Oi^. iii. 43, v. 21 ; Kunth Enuif^' 

 PI i. 505, Suppl 416 ; Boxb. FL Ind, i. 265; Wall. Cat. n. 8759; Grf- 

 Cat. Bomb. PL 238 ; Griff. NotuL iv. 84, Ic. PL AsiaL t. 139, f. 57, t. 1^^^; 

 f . 1 ; Thw. Enum. PL ZeyL 368 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl PL 108 ; Dalz. & ^'^^ 

 Bomb. FL 'i02;I}uthie Grass. N.W. Lid. 90, Fodd. Grass. N. I^^'l^^. 

 24. A. festucoides, Presl Bel Usenk. i. 340. A. nigritanus, Benfh. »^ 

 Hook. Niger FL 573; Steud. L c. 394. Anatherum muricatum, ^^a^J; 

 Agrostog. 150, t. 22, f. 10 ; Spreng. Pugill. ii. 15. Vetiveria odorata, V*' Y 

 in Joum. Pharmac. Soc. I. xiii. 499. V. arundinacea & muricata, On^^r 

 FL BHL W. Ind. 559, 560. Mandelorna insignis, Steud. I c. 359. AgrosW* 

 verticillata. Lam. Diet 69, IlL Gen. n. 162, Suppl i. 255. ^^%fji 

 zizanioides, Ztnn. 3fan^. ii. 183. Holcus PViranae, Herb. Ham, ex Htf" 

 i c— Tirana, Joties in As. Research, iv. 306. 



