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190 OLxxiii. GBAMiNB^. (J. D. Hooker.) lAndropogon. 



Stem 2-S fl., leafy below, very slender above. Leaves distichous, 12-18 bj 

 |-^ in,, exactly linear, coriaceous, flat, smooth, midrib very slender, 11-nerved, 

 margins spinulosely serrulate, and with a few long tubercle-based cilia towards the 

 broad semi-araplexicaul base, midrib beneath serrulate ; lower sheaths ^ in. broad, 

 keeled, armed with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Panicle 7 in., rachis smooth; 

 branches unequal, those of the lowest whorl the longest, about 1 in., usually with 

 only one spike, tips very shortly bearded. Sessile spikeleis pale, coriaceous ; callai 

 ^— 1^5 in. ; awn of II as long as itself or shorter ; III shorter than II, narrow, obtuse 

 2-nerved, ciliate; IV the linear hyaline 3-nerved base of the awn. Pedictlled spi^f' 

 lets pale, shining, pedicels very shortly rufou3-villous on both margins, excised at the 

 tip in a semicircle ; gl. I thin, tip 2-toothed, nerves strong subequidistant, or the 3 

 lateral on each side submarginal, margins narrowly incurved, keels ciliolate from base 

 to tip ; II lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, ciliolate ; III linear-oblong, 2-nerved, 

 ciliate; IV narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved. — I have seen only two specimens of thw 

 plant, that in Herb. Wallich, and another sent by Heyne to Rottler named A. asper^^ 

 in his own handwriting. Very closely allied to J. verticillatus^ but differing totally 

 in habit and foliage according to Roxburgh's drawing and description of that plant 

 and coming from a very different part of India. 



46. JLm lancearias, Hook.f. ; stem tall leafy, leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late acuminate narrowed towards the base quite glabroaa flat smooth 

 midrib beneath quite smootb, sheaths imbricate compressed, panicle narrow 

 of many whorls of short simple smooth erect branches bearing sohtary 

 erect spikes^ sessile spikeleta \ in., callus short glabrous in front, gl-1 

 glabrous or minutely ciliate at the strongly compressed tip, II keel and 

 sides above the middle more or less hispid, awn of IV IJ in., pedicelW 

 spikelets | in. narrowly lanceolate 7-nerved keels eciliate except at tw 

 tip. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; at the foot of the hills, Punkabaree, Kurz. ChotaNagpori; 

 Ramghur, Ghat, 1750 ft., CUirke. 



Stem 2-3 ft. or more, leafy upwards. Leaves 12-14 by i-J in., rather tbm, 

 narrowed from below the middle to the base, quite smooth on both surfaces, ®*"J1^ 

 broad white above, nerves many very slender, margins minutely gpinulose ; sbeatw 

 keeled, quite glabrous ; ligule a row of very fine short hairs. Panicle 6 in., q^' 

 like that of A. aspety from which this plant differs in the leaves, in the caU 

 glabrous In front, in the much more hairy gl, II of the sessile spikelet, and in tw 

 eciliate keels of gl. I of the pedicelled spikelets. — The Chota Nagpore specimen !d.^ 

 been named A. verticillatus by Hackel in a letter to Mr. Clarke, from *^**^!ljj 

 iffers in the form of the panicle and glabrous leaves; its gl. IV of the pedioeU^ 

 spikelets is 2.fid, but that of the Sikkim plant is lanceolate and aristately acumjoai^ 

 I hare examined a specimen of what may prove to be a form of this plant ^^"^.rj 

 at Oya in Bebar (Herb. Hort. Calcutt.) in which gls. H and IV of the pedj^eH^ 

 spikelets are both awned, the awn of the latter (IV) being sometimes as full^ 

 veloped as that of the sessile spikelet ! The specimen is in too imperfect a ^ .^ ^ 

 to be described fully : the gl. I of the pedicelled spikelet is quite glabrous wiM> 

 2-toothed tip. In all other respects it agrees with A. lancearius. 



47. A. Hamiltoni, Hooh /. ; tall, stout, leaves very long Hnj^J 

 gradually acuminate smooth above scaberulous beneath margins nea ; 

 smooth, panicle large ovoid dense of many long smooth erect branches 

 many closely approximate whorls each bearing 1-3 spikelets, spikes er » 

 sessUe spikelets i in., callus very short villous all round, gl. I '"^ | J^ 

 hispid at the strongly compressed tip, II keel ciliate close under the l*> j 

 awn, awn of gl. IV 2^ in., pedicelled spikelets I in. linear-lanceolate, gj- 

 7-9-nerved ciliate close to the tip only. Holcus Carar, Ham. in WaU- ^ 

 n. 8792 A.— Chrysopogon, Wall Cat. l. c. 



Behab ; Monghir, B^amilton^ 



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