Mropgon!l clxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) ISiT 



Tbroaghout the Plains and Lower Hills of India, Bubmi and Cbtlon, 



ttcending to 4000 ft.— Distrib. Java, Afr. trop. 



S<m5 2-5 ft., in large, dense tufts with stout spongy aromatic roots, sparingly 

 wanched, as thick below as a goose -quill. Leaves 1-2 ft., subbifarious, narrow 

 *«Je, erect, keeled, glabrous, margins scabrid; sheaths equitant, glabrous; ligule 

 ™*cafe Panicle 4^12 in., conical, erect, racLis stout and erecto-patent filiform 

 ^ittous branches glabrous or seaberulous. S;plkes slender, joints and pedicels about 

 T.J^^sile spikelets. Sessile spikelets grey green yellow or purplish, -J-J in., 

 Benrwi t"^^^^' glabrous, callus obscurely bearded; gl. I coriaceous, acute, 2-4- 

 !^.' II coriaceous, 1-nerved, margins hyaline, keel muricate; III lanceolate, 

 ^«»nate 2-nerved, margins inflexed ciliolate; IV = III ciliate; palea very small, 



rT' ^,7°^o^«' Pedicelltd spikelets like the sessile but ffl. I smooth, IV awnlesB. 

 ^Otts.khos grass. ^ 



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nanS' J*' .**^*'*'°*' ^oofc./ ; stem erect from a stout rootstock, leaves 



rrowiy linear curved acute or obtuse tips serrulate, sheaths compressed, 



E! "^"■o^ elongate branches erect, spikes pale, joints 6-8 and pedicels 



«naer obhquely truncate, gl. I linear rigid keels muricate dorsally flat 



middu T^^°^^^^^"^ inflexed, II awned keel pectinately ciHate above the 

 *' ^^ ^-toothed awned.' 



" Sooufnl ^* ^^^'Jypore, alt. 3000 ft., in moist groimd, Lawson. 

 nbisdieal ? ^T^°°*''^ ' ^^'^^^ simple, slender, internodes very long. Leaves chiefly 

 •erregi^ f ^y^^"-'^^actly liuear, rigid, base not contracted, margins ciliate, 

 rid»eofj;.- I' ^^^^*^ of lower very short, of cauline very long, striate ; ligule a 



•^t- ioinS puoerulous with a white scurf. Sptfces i-i m., paie 



•Piiel'eL sJi Z*''^ obliquely truncate, tips obscurely ciliate, and pedicels i 

 ^'^ snky ^- "' '^''""pressed. Sessile spikelets i in., linear-lanceolate, cailus 



nearly = 

 bearded 



JjRw man th 



IV arched, linear, 



Anthers long. 



••"erved »!f * ! , T*'^' '°"&er and narrower than the sessile, callus naked, gl. I 

 '!"<«. cuS '-^f ^' pectinately ciliate ; II acuminate, awned ; III and IV oblong. 



tneq ■^^'^^• 



Sub 



--".iS n^}' .Chrysopogon, Hack. Spikes of 3 spikelets, solitaiy or 

 «*ct otZll, ''' ^- G^'-^^^w*) on the capillary whorled branches of au 

 ^»aed ^fll^^ P^^^«^e 5 branches with obconic obliquely truncate tips 

 .^weiual i!r^ \ '^"S o'^ beard of stiff hairs. Spikelets 3-nate, a eessile 

 ^''erallv'com Pe<iicelled males or neuters. Sessile spikelets narrow, 

 literali; o^^P'^''^^'? ; gl- I narrow, linear, rieid. erect, 4-nerved, usaally 



'J»unel-a«„ --- «""cu ur not; xii nyaune, a-nervou, ^. — - 

 f'^sed: Bhl^i T^'« ^^ a long awn. Pedicdhd spikelets dorsally 

 Then I ^ ^y^uQ^ or noi.—Ugule of minute hairs m all. 



com 



only subge 



?^°f^iZ°^*^^ «P^1^«- The genus has a better claim to be retained than 

 {^•^'"It of deSfr^- J^« «P^«=5«« «^e, with the exception of the firj,t two, very 

 » p ,. °'*'°°> a"d must be regarded as merely provisionally established. 



^"ger.*^!'"^^^' °^ tlie upper spikelets half as long aa the sessile spikelet or 



€ A ^^ -^ °^ ^^^ "^P^"" ^P^l^elets glabrous or nearly so. 



• <*'ynu8, Linn. Cent. Pin. Zi; Biem simple, panicle large. 



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