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indropogon.] CLxxiii'. GRAMiNEiB. (J. D. Hooker.) 189 



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Plains and lower'lulls of India, from Kumnon to Sikkim in the Himalaya, the 

 m&m Hills and southward to the Nicobar Islds. and CErLON.— Distrib^ Trop. 

 iw, Australia, and Polynesia. 



S^ffl woody leafy and extensively creeping below, then erect, 1-2 ft., slender. 

 Jrfa»« densely tufted, 1-5 by ^-i in,,.flat, obtuse or acute, often undulate, glaucous, 



ftt T*i T^^*^^ ^^'"^^^^^ ' ^^eath terete ; lignle a y cry narrow ciliate membrane. 

 wc^l-3 !n„ pale or purplish; branches capillary, scabemlous or villous below 

 wspik-elets, tips obliquely truncate. Sessile spikelets \ in.; callus nearly as long 

 «cae glumes, ucicular, shortly bearded ; gl. I chartaceous, obscurely ^S-nerved or 

 fim^^TV 1- ^^^^^^*^^' acuminate or aristulate, 1-nerved ; III linear-oblong, 2- 

 ikbro r^' acuminate; awn i-} in., scabrid ; palea small, linear, obtuse, 



fesK°'t Nerveless. Pedicelled spikelets purple, much longer and narrower than 



^iie; pedicels slender, scaberulous; gl. I subulate-lanceolate, aristulate, 3-nerved, 



t€ J lu and IV shorter, ciliate ; palea minute, cuspidate. 



tt -Pedicela of upper spikelets villous with rusty rarely pale hairs. .] 

 \)leT^^^^ <>/ i^edtceZZeoE spikelets long^awned, II not or very shrtly 



loneve^\^^**^*"**^»? -^^^^- ^^' -f^^- i- 263 ; tall, stout, leafy, leaves 

 fipreadinff ?' P^^^^^® broad of many whorls of many long simple smooth 

 •esale«nVw 1^. branches terminated by solitary drooping spikelets, 

 l«aeatJ fW- ^ ?"' ^^^^^^ ^^^^er long glabrous in front, gl. I setulose 

 Wath J! fP ""^^^ strongly compressed above, II glabrous keel ciliate 

 lauceoWy?^ ^^^' ^^^ ^^ I^ U in., pedicelled spikelets ^ in. narrowly 

 ^U 506 n T^. 5.nerved keels ciliate at the tip only, ^^unf^ l^num. 

 ^Ster^K^ i,¥%^''3^' ^^drojp. 555. Chrysopogon verticillat 



^: Ed^ II. i. 360. 



Kunth 



us, Trm. 



- «M°&v\^'^'°'''^°^*^« N- Circars probably), B^^^ 



'"■''i as a sm it' P^'"™"'^'- Stem 4-6 ft., terete, solid towards the base, smooth, as 

 ?• '"'ide to " rrtu^"!"- ^"''''' approximate, 18 by J in., particularly hairy on 

 '"inches 2-3 ;„ e , ^**^' margins spiaulose. Panicle conical, lax, 8-10 in. ; 

 •^"Is- calln. I ^^ * narrow, pale. Sessile spikelets about twice as long as the 

 *•" as lone 1? ■^ Ir' '""^ '' ^l- 1 ^-nerved, tip hyaline, acute ; II narrow, tip 2.hd, 

 ^^"^ 3.nivLl'^'^^'. "^ °^l°°g' obtuse, margins retrosely ciliate ; IV the very 

 ^ P«^ shinl^ ^^-'"^ b^'« of the awn, tip obscurely 2.1obed. Pedicelled spike- 

 i^Mlj „i t"£' f^^J^els abruptly truncate rather laxly ciliate on the margms and 

 ?^nceolate" J • "'^ ^ ^"^'^^ nerves nearer the margin, awn longer than itself; 

 ^^''l-n»LdTiT^' ^il'ate, 3-nerTed; III very narrow, ciliate, 2.nerveaj lY 

 !*?* I take to'}/"?, T^ ^"""^ «e«° only a single very sleuder leafless specimen of 

 ^'^*' with rLk ^o^'.bnrgh's plant, bearing the name in Arnott's handwnt.ng on a 

 IT'P'ion of tCV'l^} \ ^''"^ ^° tl^afc botanist's writing in the corner, l^^^ '^l' 

 ft'^^e.iserih ^^:u' ^'"^«^' *«- '« taken from Roxburgh. Hackel who does 

 ** ^'-a frCS V^f ^Pil^elets from a specimen also named by Arnott. and sent 

 . . *^®* Herbarium. 



''"^^'^ut^r'' ^'^"^ *« ^e''?'- -Ro^^e^ (asperum) ; leaves broadly 

 !l'^P'e88e(iVf 't- '°'^**« ™i<irib beneath spinulose, sheaths broad 

 •^th erect 7 ^'"l"*^' Pa°i«l« narrow of many whorls of short simp e 

 ^l^^otsJiL f,f ches bearing solitary rarely 2 erect spikes, sesBile 

 ^.'^^ly oom^rT^'\' ^?°^ ^^"0^^ all rouid, gl. I hispid beneath the tip 

 ?^%awa S Tv^^^°^«' " l^«el and sides more or less hispid above the 

 "h.^^ W! ^^-i-^^ i"-' pedicelled spikelets ^ in. narrowly lanceolate 

 ». 8784. . "^^ cihate—Chrysopogoa asper, ffeyne ex Wall. Gat. 



"'^^-^Pulieat Hills, He, " " ' ' 



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