Andro^Ofjon.] CLxxiii. gramine^e. (J. D. Hooker.) 197 



wM. 4- Am. Bot Beech. Voy. 243 {excl. Syn. Boxh.). A. scandens, 

 mb I c. 258 ; Kuuth L c. 498 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb, PI. 238 ; Balz, & Gibs, 

 ^^b Fi 301 ; Duthie Lc. 21. Lepeocercis aaiiulata, Nees FL Afr. Austr. 

 ^^'-Aniropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8810 0. E. G. 



Throughout the hills and plains of India, from Kashmir westward to Bengal and 

 southward (not iu Ceylon).— Disteib. Trop. Africa, China, Australia, Pacific. 



*item* usually woody at the base with strong wiry roots and tufted leaves, then 

 geniculately ascending, 6-36 in. ; nodes bearded or not. Leaves 3-12 in., rigid, 

 f^f^^' S^^brous or hairy above with tubercle-based hairs, margins scabrid ; sheath 

 ^aed at the tip; ligule oblong, obtuse. Spikes 1-2^ in., straight or flexuous, 

 ^^, ^ inchued, pinkish or nearly white, joints and pedicels = i the spikelets, slender, 

 Odin T*^^l°^ shortly ciliate. Spikelets very vaiiable in size, closely imbricating ; 

 wna Shortly bearded ; gl. I thin, nerves strong or faint, not reaching the tip ; II 

 •olnm k'T^^"^' glabrous or ciliolate; III narrow, glabrous; IV awn f-1 in., 

 n scabrid. Pedicelled spikelets about = the sessile ; gl. I obtuse or acute, 

 ^ -nerved, keels bristly ; 11 narrower, S-nerved ; III ciliate; IV minute or 0.— 



10 uKilrTT^" ^°*^^^^ ^^'^^^' ^^ which Hackel distinguishes three Indian varieties, 

 ** T^^ I ^ve added a fourth : — 



of sessile spikelets beset with rigid tubercle- 



of pedicelled often papillose. 

 >oseIv h- * ' ^ '"'•"jj luwcr luii^-stipiuate, gl. I of sessile spikelets glabrous 



fowoTtur^'^/*^?^' ^"^'^^^ ^-^ decurved, gl. I of sessile spikelets with a transverse 

 ^* Ahv,7-A^n^^^ ^*"*^^ ^^1*^^ the tip. A. papillosus, Hochst. es A. Rich. Tent. 

 . J '• 11. 457 ; Haclc. L c. 573.— Behar on Parusuath, Clarke.— Ah. trop. 



▼ery 'gW^^*'^®*' -^«^^- ^^ (Esterr. Bot. Zeihchr. xli. (1891) 49 ; atmual, 

 •olitarv ni, ' ■^'^'^^ branched, leaves 2-4 in. linear-lanceolate, spikes 

 Blender 8iil-f^^."y Peduncles from spathiform sheaths, joints and pedicels 

 *ith wh;t u • °"^ sulcate, spikelets subdistichous, sessile silkily villous 

 •cabemloi? i^r^^^' S^- ^ elliptic-oblong flat truncate 2-toothed, keels 

 'i^rrower r!!^ u ^ ^^""P^^ ^^n. gl- I oi pedicelled spikelets rather larger 

 B^^^^ '"'^■brown glabrous. 



, «tens\2Tfi^'''T^*^''*^'- 4200 ft., Clarke. 



^"*<J. quitP '°'' ^^ ^'' ""*^^'^ bearded. Leaues flat, finely acuminate, base con- 

 **ntractea • i; ^^°^^'^' serves very slender ; sheaths lonR, slightly tumid, mouth 

 T^'e. sle'ndT e°* '''*'"• ^P^^^^ §-1 in- lo"g. flattened, joints and pedicels 

 * '"• ; callu, I' ^^•^^^e's 6-8 pairs ; two lowest pairs neuter. SesMe spikelets 

 "'*'«ed; 1T„„ ^,'*^'0''tJ gl. I thinly chartai-eous, 7-nurveJ, margins narrowly 

 t*"^. hvalinp""'-,-^ cymhiform, acnminate, 3-neryed, margins ciliate ; III oblong, 

 ^'''•. dark hr "'*'''' ^^ tl'e slender awn i-1 in. long. Pedicelhd spikelets 

 "naller._xhe u h! ' ^ * ^ ^^^"^^ o^ emarginate, many-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; III 



"OUe sessile and dark pedicelled spikelets are a marked feature. 

 59. A *- f 



"*P»0B8lv l.-f '"***«Sj SooK f. : annual, tufted, erect, leaves linear 



^''«imnle;T'^*^<l'>rsally densely silky below the middle kee s cihate, 

 **^nal tult i' ^^- ^ ol^' pedicelled spikelet armed with spreading sub- 

 fcr '^^^^e-based bristles twice or thrice its own length. 



'!&'"• Leateh ''a V^"^^ '^^ « sparrow's qniU, simple or branched above ; nodes 

 ■ '"J l»air, "o„ v„M ■ ^' ^"^ ^"m flaccid, nerves slender, base ra 



r ^^ surfaces and with long tubercle-based bri.tlcs at the base j 



ther contracted, 



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