

Miropogon.] CLXxiii. GEAMiXEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 193 



*Wcts, from the Panjab to Behar and southwd. to Ceylon, Bxjr^x, 

 io/te«.-DisTfiiB. Affghaniatan, S. Africa. 



5fems tufted, 1^3 ft., simple or branched, usually almost filiform, rarely as thick 

 a^^a crq^-qmll or stouter. Leaves 6-18 in., rarely more than i in. broad, finely 

 «h""tr^t^' ^^^^ Sttiooth above and beneath, margins minutely scaberulous ; upper 

 bmno^ ^^te, lower more or less compressed, sometimts very much so and mem- 

 9 19 ' *^^^^^^ 2-4 in., rarely more; rachis flexuous; branches in whorls of 

 Quitf "^^^^ i!^*^^^' smooth or scaberulous, lowest i-l in. or more, upper shorter; all 

 •caberuT^^^f^ ^^ /^ *^^ ^^^^'^^ P^^^ together with the rachis scaberulous, rarely 

 Irown '^^^.^ [^"^^O"^- Spikes very variable in size ; the green blue and purplish or 



callas h • v! '^^'''^^® ^^^"^"-^^ *^^*^*^ ^^^^ P^^^ sessile. Sessile spikelets |-i in.; 

 IJressed ""^ -^ ^^ ^°^^' ^^^^" ^^'^'^^e to rusty red ; gl. I narrow, strongly com- 

 recmedT^''^^v\^^'"^**^"^^®' ^^^ rounded; II broader, tip 2-fid, with a short 

 *eoeth ^'u^'. .^^^^^"s^^^<^^g^-^^rous to hirsute for a greater or less part of its 

 filiate' TTT h ^^- ^^' ^^^^^^^ rufous or white bristles, margins membranous hardly 

 eciliate d'lf r ^"^* oblong, obtuse, ciliate ; IV the long narrow hyaline 3-nerved 

 o^afe. to • 1^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^' ^^^'^<^^^^ed spikelets }'l in., neuter or male, from 

 villous tL?^^^^^^^r*^^'^^^*^^"^"^^*^^®; pedicels cuneate, margins sparsely or densely 

 «pili*^'et fro ^"^^T ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^os^ densely villous nearly equalling the 

 «^nequallin V^^^*^-^ ^^^ ^^ white; gl. I thin, acute acumiuate or awned, the 

 <^aidiW nr^9 ^ ^^'^^^ ^^^^ t^egl,, glabrous or pubescent; nerves always 7, sub- 

 *='^'ate or ST^ fi,*'" f ^^'^^ ^^^^ sub-carinal; margins narrowly incurved, spinulosely 

 '•'len-ed or HP 1 lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate; III hyaline, oblong, obtuse, 



*^>fy the .®^!^' ^^ shorter, narrower, hyalims 1-3-nerved.— I am unable to 

 ^^Pbical !^^^^-"^^ ^^ ^^^3 common and variable plant in accordance with 

 ^<^ botanists -T ^^ ^^^'^^ considerations. This, if possible, must be effected by 



^^Wofthpir ' . colour of which affords no character; nor does its length, 

 .s^^ ™ ^"»a on Its keels. 



i 'e^^gtlTSrf ^ ^7^^^ ' ^'- ^^ of 8*^ssile spikelet villous for more -or less of 

 *^ ^unth eV^^^ ^1^^^"^^^ usually rufous rigid bristles. A. moutlcola, Schultes 

 i'^excl. var Ti] \'' ^^^J ^*^«^- Sy^' Gram. 395; Hark. Monogr. Anirop 

 ^*»ontanus ?r .'')• ^' aciculatus, Herb. Wight ex Wall Cat. n. 8/82 B. 

 ^'^sopoeon'nTl?' '"* ^^^''^- ^''''^^' ^' Sprengelii, Kunth Revis. Gram. 166^ 

 ^108. Pai^.^.**^^"^«' "^rin. in Spreng. N. Intdeck. lu 93 ; Trim. Cat. GeyL 



^'^v: . ^"'^^' Spreng. PugilC ii. ' 93.— Chrysopogon, Wall CaL n. 



• fl 



fr"^ WiceWfi^^^- -^^ "^ sessile spikelets glabrous or shortly ciliate, hnirs of callus 

 ^=*- Monoar ^ T^ P''*° '"e^'^i'^'' or ^tite. A. Trinii, Stewl. Sv». Gram 39o ; 

 i^'opogon cilinl J"^- ^^^- A- ciliolatus, coerulens. and increscens, ^-teiui. I.e. 

 f-F-hd. I2 "^«^'>«> ^oiss. Fl. Orient, v. 458 {excl. var. /3.); I>«^'t'« Gja^s. 

 P '"t'escens k ''*^»'»^««8, Duthi^ I. c. 23, Fodrf. Grass. N. lid. 39, t. W. 



^^- ^^ier,l\^%\ ^'''^' Cat. Ceyl. Pl. 108. C serrulatus, Tnn. tn Mem. 



S"*^ ''"d ci;^lv"- ^1^33) 318,^5;^. Gram. Ic. t. 331; D«^/u. -c Rhaph.s 

 '^.8791. ""'"iea, iV^e, ^a, ^^^^^ ^ ^^ gyg 3y6._Chrysopogon, JFaW. Ca^. n. 



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