i»^lropogon.] cLxxin. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 



puicle 



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"-(Lv^^use oearaea at the very base only with loag fulvous hairs, gl. I 

 jwse glabrous, keel ciliate towards the tip, If not awned keel glabrous 

 ™p ^"'^ of IV H in. nearly straight pale, pedicelled spikelets 

 x^\Z , ^^*^?^<^e acuminate glabrous 7-nerved eciliate not awne^, 



V&7^*^, Provinces ; Khandua, Chanda, and Jubbulpore districts, by the 



^10 by II-"' ^^^^' ^^ *^^^^'^ *^^ a crow-quill or more. Leaves crowded, or not, 

 •erves Y^^"^i'^"' ^^^^ glaucous-greeu and smooth oa both surfaces, midrib and 

 hkicU r^ '^ x^^' iwargiiis minutely scaberulons ; sheaths appressed, bard. 

 *i^dr •"*' "^^"c^^^i-J in., very unequal ; pjduucle slender, quite glabrous. 

 »Pik2ef.r .r^*! °^ P'^^® purplish. Glumes as in A, monticola, Pedicelled 



>«bit fJv T^^^ *^^^^" ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ' pedicels = about i ? the sessile spikelets.— 

 «o«t nJrP n ^^^""^ panicle very unlike A, monticola, and remarkable for the 

 Kicelsvin ^^"^"^ tV i». long with a long-bearded base, and the naked 



^t'iiffen f ^^ ^'^ ^^^^ '^'^^^ «rect fulvous hairs half as long as the spikelets. 



Haucle 9t!h "? 1 "^^^'^ '" ^^^^ *^^^^ '^«bifc, long-glabrous glaucous foliagfe, glabrous 

 **itheTe f''^^^^''^ ^'^ ^'^^® panicle, callus, pedicels, awnless pedicelled spikelets, 



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Ael^ni^^?^'^ ^rf- ^^'^9n, 



basal 



^bag all ^ ^^'"^- !^^equal scaberulous, sessile spikelets \-\ in- callus long 

 «'iate Wl Ifr r""^^^ ^'^'^g Pa^e silky hairs, g\. I glabrous' or keel and tip 

 '^ind -i" ^'"''*^' awn of IV §-i iu. pile, pedicelled spikelets longer 

 «liate !»! ''^%°^""owly lanceolate 5-7-nerved, keols ciliate and with a long 

 geuuinl ' T?T'J^ = 3 the sessile spikelet silkily villous. A. Ancheri, 

 ,^ Qus ifac^. M.nogr. Androp. 560. Chrysopogon ciliolatus ^. Auchen, 





sparingly branch 



IB. Affghanistau, N. Africa. 



jhed, base thickened, leafy. Leaves 2 A 



- „ :.,of^ nnlA trrpen. often ciliate 



r"<l» the"LT •""" ""ddate, acute or acuminate, pale green, often ciluae 

 h-Mancle5 !' T^^'""^ scaberulous ; shoath very pale. Panicle 2-3 m., erect, 

 b*"^' 'pileUt, \', '*'^^"'^- ^P^^'^'^ "■'dually crowded, rarely biuate on a branch. 

 y.«: TT^''' ^'^llus obtuse: el. I comnressed. with sometimes long terunnal 



?^ ClW t !,^i '"•' P<=dicels silkily villous from base to apex ; gl. I sparsely 

 S---S; «*''^ very long cilia on the keels towards the tip, awn pa e 

 f^' ^h^lT\'''^ ^^' description to the Scind plants. Hackcl describes he 

 !"»''•'=. no two, ''^^ *° ^''''^^' ^■•aWa. Morocco, and S. Africa as extraordmau ^ 

 > 'Pecime^ T""'"' "S^-^^'^S i" ^H points, and the spikelets ^arymgm the 

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£; ^'^"A^THiuM, ffacy?;. S'j)i/tes digitate, rarely solitary or 

 . . -form f ' «^,f tipitate on the peduucle, joints many and pedicels 

 !>ni-o2lJ^*'"alJy flat compressed; lower 1-4 pair, of spikelets 

 ^'^^^* doril^'P^ sometimes in^i. annulaUs) male or neuter. Sessile 

 . . -..^rsally compressed; gl. I with the margins usually inflexed and 



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