Andropogon.] clxxiii. gramine.!!. (J. D. Hooker.) 199 



'' 63. A. nitidulus^ IIool\ /. ; annual, very slender, branched, leafy, 

 ieaves long narrow flaccid scaberuloua base contracted, spikes very le\r 

 Tery anequal on a long capillary peduncle white, rachis tenacious, sessile 

 •pikelets ovate-oblong 9-nerred dorsally flat glabrous or scabrid towards 

 ^ hyaline truncate tip, keels ciliate towards the tip, II 5-7-nerved 

 «wmnate, IV short broadly 2-lobed, awn very slender. 



'N.W Himalaya; on the Sewalik Hills: and Chanda in the Central Pko- 

 ^J^CES, Buthie. 



otems 3-4 ft., loosely tufted, very slender from the naked base upwards, nodes 



tow T\i '^T^^^ ^^^ ^y «""^" '°'' acuminate, thin, margins scaberulous ciliate 

 Ktn? ki ^^^' midrib slender smooth, nerves very slender; sheath smooth; 



'm K 7. ' margins narrowly 'incurved ; II chartaceous lanceolate, 5-7-nerved, 



OfiVov r^ ^^°^"^^^*^' ciliate; III smaller, lanceolate, 2-nerved, ciliate; lobes 

 A^therJ \ ^^^^^' divergent, ciliate; awn about i in., slender, column quite smooth. 

 linceoH ' P^dif^elled splkelets rather longer than the sessile, narrowly 

 ciliate t!^^'^!5^^"' neuter; gl. I membranous, 9-nerved, glabrous, margins incurved, 

 towards the tip only ; n J.nerved ; III rudimentary or 0, 



Wdirpl. ; ?■ Heteeopogon, Hach. Spikes solitary, joints many and 

 EtP /^°"®^^*^<^5 lowest pairs or 2-8 pairs of apikelets closely im- 



"cate. male or neuter'. 



sabcylindnc 



g awa 



or obU fr ^'',. ^®°^''- Sessile spikelets subcylindric, gl. I sabcy 

 with a a?' \ ^^*^sely keeled, not awned; I LI hyaline; IV a lon^ 

 Unlitp Iv ^ol'i'^n and often a hyaline base. FedlceUed spikelets very 

 ' ^^^ sessile and concealing them. 



* Li 1 



*pihhis ^^^b>'"'>ious ; column of awn hirsute ; callus of sessile fern. 



* pungent. 



63. 



.truncate 



*HS,g, L 



)rsally flat, margins smooth involute, awn S-<J in., 

 ... .„ ^ „ „in., gl. I obliqnelv lanceolate obtuse. Lamlc. Encyc. 

 367 -a -P^^e^*^- 260, t. 91 ; Kunth Etmm. PI. i. 486; Steud. Syri. 



"', Mack. Mannnv J ^^^^^ f^QK /.,,./.; A -nnlvHtAfillVUS. BoXO.): 



"'^. 5 ' A ■■r,^; -^llionii, DC. Fl. Franc, iii. 97. A. messanensis, Biv. 11. 

 '^suiiensS' Sf"^'"^i. -2«i. in Nuoc. Giorn. But. Hal. (v. 1873) 317. A. 

 ^% T v!: /v^""^- ^•^- 307. Heteropogon AlHonii. Boem. .f Sch. Sj/st. u. 

 ^•contortn!' ^^''■^l- (^enn. Monocot. i. 94; Beichh. Ic. Fl. Genn.t.bS. 

 -^♦'cAw r'?' ^^^^"v- ex Boem. & Sc/i. I.e. 836 ; Benth. Fl. Audral. vu. ol7 ; 

 ^- Ind 4\-\^'y"^- Pi- 17ti; Duthip. Grass. N. \F. Ind. 19, Fodd. Grass. 

 |v«. ii ■ It^- ]9- H. firmus, Presl. Bel. Hxnk. i. 334. H. glaber, Bers. 

 ^"m.PjV -7^«;^^- ^grost. 24, t. 23, f. 8. H. hirtua, Fers. I.e.; fho. 

 ?• liirRatnf ^i- 3<38 ; '^'^'■™- <^«^- Oeyl. PL 107; Benth. Fl. HongLm. 

 ^^- H HnV '^""- ^ffrost. 134. H. hispidlssimus, Steud. St/n. Gram. 





H. messa- 



Sj/n. i. 164. H. polystachyus, Nees Agrast. Brus. 





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