194 CLXXiii. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Ilookei.) iA7idrojpogm 



52. A. Kackelil, Hook. /. ; stem tall stout, leaves narrow finely 

 acummate, panicle oblong, rachis strict, branches smooth crowded in many 

 superposed whorls short very unequal smooth spreading simple eaca 

 with a solitary spike, sessile spikelets ^-^ in. golden yellow, calloa very 

 short beard fulvous brown, gl. I obtuse glabrous, II glabrous awned, awn 

 of IV f-1 in., pedicelled spikelets rather shorter than the sessile, gL I 

 oblong acute quite glabrous 5-7-nerved not awned keel eciliate, II shortly 

 awned.— Chrysopogon, WalL Cat. n, 8783. Wight Herb. n. 1030 (»» 



TBATAycoRE, WlghL NiLGHiRi HiLLS ; Gondaloo Ghat, alt. 4500 ft., Lawson. 



Stem ^5 fl., or more, as thick as a goose-quill below, leafy, quite smootn, 

 branching upward, branches erect. Leaves 2-3 ft., by ^ in, coriaceous, s«»ootb, 

 pale glaucons green, striate, margins sub-scaberulous ; sheath subterete, keeie<jT 

 smooth, glabrous; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle 4-6 in.; branches '^^ ^ 

 whorls, J-i in. apart, the longest about 1 in. long, rather stiff, tips hardly obhqa^ 

 beard of spreading rufous hairs. Spikes solitary. Sessile spikelets yellow ; gL 

 4-nerved, pohshed ; II subcymbiform, tip 2-lobed, 3-nerved, margins ciliolate, kee 

 rounded and thickened, awn shorter than the gl. ; III linear-oblong, obtuse, hyalm^ 

 ciliate, nerveless ; IV very narrow, 1-3-nerved, hyaline, base and column *^*^ *^^^" ^^^jj'j 

 Pedicelled spikelets pule green; yellow or purplish, male, pedicels = ^^ nearly i 

 sessile spikelets truncate, margins densely villous with long rufous hairs, the upp^ 

 of which = half the spikelets, gl. I thin, nerves subequidistant, or 2-3-nate pa» 

 submarginal margins narrowly incurved ; II lanceolate, 3-nerved ciliate; 

 oblong, 2-nerved, ciliate ; IV narrowly lanceolate, l-nerved ciliate.— A veij 

 huudsome plant with a bright golden panicle. Wight's n. 1030 (which i? "'^j* 

 catalogue number) is referred by Hackel to A. Trinii var, increscens^ with " 

 locality Courtallam, taken from Steudel. It differs from the n. 1030 iu Herb. Keff^^ 

 the villous sheaths with tubercle-based hairs, the leaves hairy on both surfaces 

 panicle branches 4r-3, and is no doubt rightly referred to Trinii, 



53. A. velutinus, Hook. /. ; stem not tall compreBsed, leaves linear 

 broad flat acuminate puberulous on both surfaces, sheaths strongly com- 

 pressed keeled, panicle with flexuous rachis and short flexnous scaberuloa 

 branches minutely bearded at the trancate tips, sessile spikelets p^^^ 

 callus very short rufous bearded, gl. I compressed keel ciliolate above t 

 middle, keel of 11 hirsute, awn of IV 1 in., pedicelled spikelets oblong 

 truncate strongly 7-nerved not awned keels ciliate dorsally gl^^*^j 

 or hirsute, pedicels very short. Chrysopogon velutinus, Arnott i^ ^^^ ' 

 Wight n. 2314. 



Mysore; at Cuddapah, Wight. 

 Stems 18 " 

 6" 10 by i-i 



in. high, rather stout, soft, tufted, leafy from the biise. ^^^j^ 

 - -*' "J 4 s in., distichous, flaccid, 5-9-nerved, slender midrib beneath 

 nmrgius spinulosely ciliolate and with a few long hairs at the base ; lower ^^^^ 

 equitant, I iu. broad, strougly compressed and keeled, keel spinulosely ciliate, J1P|T 



branches i-l JO* 



I have fteeu only one specimen of this plant which differs widely in habit aud i^ ^^ 

 from any form of ^. monticola, in the broad flat flaccid pubescent leaves 



or 



sheaths. It is a native of a botanically unexplored district. 



54 A. poljrpbyllus, Kach. mss. in Herb. Duthie ; stem simpl^ Jj 

 fastigiately branched quite glabrous, leaves many long narrovr ng^ 

 acuminate flat pale glaucous-green glabrous coriaceous, sheaths ter 



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