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196 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J, I). Hooker.) [Andropogon. 



keeled above and involute or not below ; TI keeled, awnless ; III hyaline; 

 IV a naked awn, its base rarely narrowly hyaline, or 2-fid and awned in 

 tlie cleft. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, but male or neuter, awnleai. 



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Glume IV of sessile spiJcelets a simple awn, acute at the base, 



• 56. A. caricosus, Unn. Sp. PL Ed, ii. 1480 {excL Spi- Bumpkh 



stem erect or decumbent below, leaves narrowly linear, sheaths compresse , 

 spikes 1-4 in. solitary binate or subdigitately panicled, spikelets closely 

 subdistichously imbricate, joints and pedicels | shorter than the sws 

 spikelets ^-\ in., gl. I of sessile spikelets obovate or oblong tip truncate 

 denticulate dorsally more or less villous, keels with ciliate ^^^^^* 

 obtuse S-nerved, III ovate-oblong ciliate. Sack, Monogr. Androp. 7od. 



Plains and low hills of India, from Scind to Burma and the Andaman IsM'- 

 (not in N.W. India) and southwd. to Cetlon. — Distrib. Mauritius, Chinn. 



Stem 1-2 ft., erect or ascending from a creeping base, often much ^^^"^J^^ 

 stout or slender, even capillary, grooved on one side, leafy ; nodes bearded or 

 Leaves 6-S by ^-^ in., finely acuminate, glabrous or ciliate, "^^^^^"j^.^^^P'^^ga! 

 fiheatbs smooth; lipcule membranous. Spikes inclined, often flexnou«, f-i >o- ^^^^^ 

 silvery, lower sometimes stipitate ; joints and pedicels = J the spikelet, ^^^^^^^^.^^^jjjy 

 margin; callus short, broad. Sessile spikelets 5-7-nerved, margins gl. I- ^ro^Jj 

 incurved below, narrowly above ; II narrow, 3-nerved, apiculate, margins cdiate, . 

 scaberulous "' ' '' ^ " ' ' -' '''^'^ 



Pedicelled s 

 ovttto-lanceo 

 princip;d forms, ^ j 



Var. genuinus. Hack.; stem glabrous below the usually solitary spike^ %*^^ 

 smooth above hairy towards the base. A. caricosus, Linn.'; Trim. Cat. *^^3' ' .<, 

 108. A. binatusA tencllus, Eoxh. FL Ind.i. 254, 255; Steud. Sijn. Gram- ^'^ 

 871. A. filiformis, Pers. Syn. I 103. A. serratus, Rcfz. Ohs. v. 21 ; ^^^\^ 

 Gram. Ic. t. 329 ; Roxh. Fh Ind. 253 ; Stend. I. c. 3G6. Lepeocercis serrata, / 

 Funriam. Aarost. 203; Wight Cat n. 1687, Uerh. Prop. n. 1687. Heteropoij 

 concinnus, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl 368. 1^^ 



Var. mollicomus, Hack.; stem pubescent below the spikes, gl- I ^ fm 4 

 dorsally hairy all over. A. australis, Poir. Encycl. Suppl.i. 585. ^'^^p^ges 

 pertusus, iTerb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat n. 8809 B. C. A. curvatus, -ff^^** f '^.f* g). 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8809 A. A. incurvatus, Xcrn. ex Trin. in Spreng. ^^^^^^^' . \^^ 

 A. Kcenigii, Steud. Syn. Oram. 381. A. mollicomus, Kunili Reris. Qr(^^- ';, . J 

 Emun. PL u 497. Lepeocercis di^itatus, J?ot/Ze III Bot HimaL416. ^^^^^"°7 g;, 

 nodosum, U.teri ^rtnaL xviii. (1796) 11, Diplasanthera lanosum, Desv. OV^^' 

 t. 5, f. 1.— Andropogon, Wall, ('at n. 8809, 8810 F, H. Wight Cat n. 1687. 



67. A. annulatus, Forsl\ FL JEg. Arah. 173; densely tufted, ^^^aj^j 



narrowly linear, sheaths terete, spikes subdigitately fascicled. P®*^ jj^ 



glabrous, joints and pedicels slender laxly ciliate, sessile spikelets r7jj^^g 



gl. I oblong obtuse or truncate flat or convex 5-9-nerved keels c^.^^ 



above 



hairs, ii acme, keei smootn except Deiow, iii ooiong ouiuoc ^—^ ); 



Del FL Egypt, iii. t. 7, f . 2 ; Kunth Enum. PI I 498 i^-^/^^^^^^ 



J not winged glabrous or more or less villous with long ^l^J^^r^QQS. 



, II acute, keel smooth except below, III oblong obtuse ^*^^ ); 

 ._--. FL Egypt, iii. t. 7, f . 2 ; Kunth Enum. PI I 498 i^-^jl^^^' 

 Stend. Syn.^ Oram. 380; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 570; Wig^^ . 

 n. 1697; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PL 175; Duthie Fodd. Chass. iV. ^"^'.^^^^ 

 t. 20; Benth. FL AustraL vii. 531; Poiss. FL Orient v. 463. A. l^ia ^^ 

 Retz. Ohs.il 27; Kitnth i.e. 498; Trin. Sp. Gram. le. t. 325 ; ^^^ r^^. 

 Ind.l2b9; Wight Cat. n. 1698; Aitchis. Lc.x Duthie Grass, -^-^^^^i 

 19. A. comosas, Link Enum. TTort. ReroL i. 239. A. garipensis, o ^^ 

 L c. 379. A. Isohaemum, Roxh. ex Wight Cat. n. 1697. A. obtusus, > 



