

193 CLXXin. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon, 



shentbs lax, upper smooth pale spathiform; ligule 0, Spikes ^-11 in., flexuous, 

 noililing op cernuoiis silvery -green, lowest pairs of spikelets male ; peduncles ^-^ m. 

 capillary, Jixils with wliorls of louor white baivs ; racliis and pedicels slender, terete 

 Bilkily ciliate, upper hairs long. Sessile spikelets ^ in.; callus very short, silkily 

 brarded ; gl. 1 thin, pale, nerveless, with often a large deep dorsal pit, margins 

 narrowly incurved ; II acute, nerveless, dorsally silkily villous; III obloug or linear, 

 Hat, hyah'ne, ohtusc, nerveless; IV, awn ahout 1 in., slender, nearly smooth, l)a?e 

 acute. Pedicelled spikelets \ in. rather narrower than the sessile ; gl. I slightly 

 convex, quite smooth between the bristles, keels ciliate, many-nerved ; II ovate- 

 oblong, 3-nerved, ciliate; III oblong, obtuse, eciliate ; IV very narrow. 



60. A. mucronatus^ Anderss, ex Hack. Monogr. Androp, 577; stem 

 tall stont, internodes alternately flattened, sheaths terete, leaves linear- 

 lanceolate acuminate pubescent, spikes 5-10 flabellately panicled, sessile 

 spikelets J in, twice as long as the joints and ciliate pedicels, callus hairs 

 half as long as the glumes, gl. I coriaceous obovate-lanceolate obtose 

 glabrous shining 6-nerved pitted in the middle, keels setose above the 

 middle, II as long lanceolate acute glabrous except the ciliate margin 

 3-nerved, IV a stout awn, gl. TV of pedicelled spikelets awned or mucro- 

 nate. 



India? Hugel. 



(Stem 3-4 ft. or taller, simple, nodes 4, bearded. Leaves flat, base fimbriate; 

 shoatha smooth; ligule rounded, ciliolate. Spikes solitary or opposite, shortly 

 peduncled, lower pair of spikelets male. Spikelets yellow-green ; gl. I not hyaline «5 

 the tip; II obscurely keeled, dorsally shining; III linear-lanceolate, nerveless, 

 ciliats; IV awn Jin. long, stout; palea minute. Pedicelled spikelets rather louger 

 and broader than the sessile; gl. I obliquely elliptic-oblong, violet-colid., keeW 

 setosely ciliate nearly to the base, 13-nerved ; 11 narrower, lanceolate, ^^^^^'^ 

 nerved, ciliate ; III obovate-oblong, 1-nerved, ciliate; IV as long, linear, l-oer^"^ 

 glabrous. — Description from Hackel, who says it is a peculiar species, not alhe^ 

 the preceding, bat rather to A. polyptgchus. 



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Gl. IV of sessile spihelet 2-fid^ atvned in the cleft. 



61. A. polyptychus, Steud, Syn. Gram. 380; stem slender erect 

 simple or branched below only, leaves erect strict softly hairy actimmat^ 

 sheaths subcompressed, spikes 4-6 digitate simple or forked, joints ana 

 ciliate pedicels half as long as the sessile spikelets, gl. I of sessile spitelf^ 

 narrowly elliptic-oblong obtuse 4-7-nerved nearly flat glabrous, marg'" 

 narrowly incurved, keels strongly ciliate above, II as long mucroo*^ 

 O-nerved ciliate, IV very narrow with 2 setaceous or lanceolate lotje 



'"' " " PL Zeul 367: Trim. Cat HevL VL 108: Each m^^^ 



Tl^waites Enum 



Androp. 578. 



Ckyion; at Pcdrotallasralla. alt. 7000 ft,, Tkivaites, , ^^, 



Stems densely tufted, 2-3 ft., as tliick as a crow-quill below, smooth, ^''^i 

 8-16 in. by -^^^-^ in,, rigid, erect ; ligule short, rigid. Spikes usually 3, very trag"^ 

 2 in. long, shortly peduncled, joints and pedicels not furrowed ; axils hairy; ^P *^ ^^ 

 closely imbricate, lowest pair male or neuter. Sessile spikelets \ in., ^**l*"^vp/; 

 short, shortly bearded ; gl, I not winged, sometimes depressed on the ine^ia" > ' 

 II ;^nerved, glabrous except the margins, acute or aristulate; III oblong-lancco ' 

 ac'ite, 1-nerved; IV rather shorrer, nearly glabrous, awn ^-f in, very slender; P j 

 minute, broadly ovate, ciliate. Pedicelled spikelets broader than the ^^^®'*'*^'.j-^^; 

 convex, many-nerved, narrowly winged on one side, tip membranous, keels ci ''^^'^ 

 II oblong, ftcute, l-nerved, ciliate; III aud IV small, oblong, obtuse, l-»^^ 

 shortly ciliate. 



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