188 CLXXiii. qraminej:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropo'goit^ 



branclies long capillary spreading simple or branched and bearing 2-4 

 spikes, sessile spikelets \-k in., gl. I 2-toothed dorsally rounded with 2^ 

 muricate or mamillate keels or channels, II mncronate or aristulate keel 

 and Bides bristly above the middle. £un th Enum. PL i. 504 ; Sack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 550; Steud. Syn. Gram. 395; Host Gram. Austr. u. 1, t. 1; 

 Sibth.Fl. Grwc. i. t. 67 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 22, Fodd. Grass. N., 

 Ind. 40. A. echinnlatus, glabratus & Eoyleanus, Steud. I.e. 395, 397. 

 A. pallidas, £unlh Eevis. Gram. i. 165. A. paniculatiis, Lam. FL ir-, 

 Ed. 2, iii. 633 ; III. Gen. 810, f. 1. Chrysopogon Gryllus, Trin. Fund. 

 Agroat. 188 ; Nees Gen. Fl. Germ. Monocot. i. t. 93 ; Benth. Fl. Austral, vu. 

 537; Aitchis. Cat. Panjah. PI. 176. 0. glabratus, Trin. in Mem. Acad. 

 Petersb. Ser. VI, ii. (1833) 318. Ebapbis Gryllus, Desj;. Oj)usc. 69 V,. 

 Royleana, Nees ex Steud. I. c. 397. R. echinulata, Nees in Royle lllustr. 

 Bot. Eimal. 417. Pollinia Gryllus, Spreng. Piigill. ii. 10; Reichb. Ic.JH- 

 Germ. t. 54. P. pallida, Roem. & Sch. Syst. ii. 829. Apluda Gryllus, Pwt 

 Gj/p. & Gram. Sic. 55. Holcus Gryllus & pallidus, Br. Prodr. 1^^- 

 Chrysopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8792 B. 0. D. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 4r-90O0 ft. KhasU 



Hills, alt. 4-5000 ft.— Disteib. Eastwards to S. Europe and N. Africa, Australia. 



. Stems forming dense hard tufts, erect, 6 in. to 5 ft. high, as thick as a goose* 

 quill below; nodes smooth. Leaves 6-18 by -J~i in., linear, acute, glab^us or 

 hirsute, margins serrulate; sheath keeled above, glabrous or pubescent. -^^^'^L 

 3-8 in. ; rachia angular, scabrid, axils bearded ; branches 2-4 in., usually very 

 many in a whorl, tips obliquely truncate densely bearded. Sessile 5/?ifce?cfs,^caUu 

 straight, acute ; gl. I coriaceous, shining, smooth or scaberulous "^^^^^^^.^^t (J 

 involute; II chartaccous, lanceolate, hyaline, margins ciliate, awn =»= the spikele ^ 

 shorter; III linear -oblong, obtuse, nerveless; IV linear, minutely 2-tootbea, avv 

 minute or ^-1^ in.; palea small, oblong, glabrous. Fedicelled ^pikelets jm 

 longer than the sessile, terete, lanceolate, acuminate ; pedicels glabrous or ciuota » 

 gl. I acuminate or aristulate, 5- 9-nerved, keels ciliate above; II lanceolate, acumina , 

 ciliate; III and IV narrower, ciliate; awn of IV ^ ^ the glume.— Hackel bas_ 

 subspecies, of which 3 are Indian. 1. genuinns\ callus about ^ in. hairs rus)- 

 brown, awn of gl. IV 1-1^ in, stout. 2. echinnlatus, callus hairs pale yellow, a 



W in. slender. 8. glahratxLS, awn of gl. II minute. 



and brandling 



43. A. aciculatus, Eetz. Obs. v. 22 ; stem creeping and branching 

 below, leaves short, sheaths terete, panicle very narrow, branches stn 

 erect, spikes solitary, sessile spikelets very narrow, callus very long ^.*^^^*J J 

 gl. I linear acute or minutely 2-cuspidate convex margins broadly ^^^^'l^ | 

 smooth below keels scabrid aculeolate above, II acuminate aristulate, t 

 ciliate above. lioxb. FL Ind. i. 262 ; Grah. Cat Bomb. PL 238 ; ^ac^ 

 Monogr, Androp. 562. A. acicnlaris, Willd. St>. PZ.iv. 906; -^^^*^-^^" / 

 ^/. i. 505, SuppL 417. A. javanicus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 396. A. ^^^^}^^^^^^ 

 Tresl liel Ha^nk. i. 341. Chrysopogon aciculatus, Trin. Fund. Agro'' 

 188; ITaZZ. Cai. n. 8780; Wight Cat. n.l&U-, Thw. Enum. FL ZeijLx'j 

 Trim. Cat. CeyL PL 108 ; DutMe Grass. N.W. Ind. 22 (aciculana), ^^^ 

 Grass. N. Ind. 39 ; Benfh. FL Hongk. 424, FL AustraL vii. 538. y.^sn^j 

 latus, Trin. ex Steud. NomcncL Ed. II. ii. 360; Miq. FL Ind. But. in. ^^^ 

 G. trivialis, Am. & Nees in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xix. SuppL i. (1840^ a • 

 Ehaphis acicularis, Desv. Opusc. 69. E. javanica, Nees ex Steud. 03 

 Gram. 396. R. trivalvis, Lour. FL Gochinch. 653 ; Trin. Sp. ^^^[^^^ 

 t. 8, 9. Centrophorum chinense, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 106, t. ^-'^-^^tt^^/. 



^ .^ ^r_. . iii ,12 .Jc. pi Asiat. t. 141. f.l {^c\cAAiLtas).—BMede n^ 



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