Androj)ogon.] cLxxm. GRAMiNEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 201 



The CoNCAN, Stoclcs^ Woodrow, Centua-L Provinces; Kbandwa, Biithie, 

 Burma, at Segaen, Wallich, Ceylon 5 Mateke East, T/iwaiies.— Distrib. Malaya, 



Australia, 



Etem 6-10 ft., as thick as a swan's quill below, hard, smooth, leafy. Leaves 

 1-- ft., narrowly linear, acuuunate, glaucous, above and margius seabrid ; sheaths 

 compressed, keeled, smooth ; ligule ciliate. Spikes ^-\ in., very stout, green; lower 

 ^.^yP^^^s of spikelets homogamous, male or neuter, joints very short. Sessile 

 M«eief* \ in., cylindric, obtuse, callus long-bearded with rufous silky hairs; gl. I 

 pincate ; II obtuse ; III glabrous ; 1 V awn hirsute, very stout. FedicelLd spikeiets 

 I ID., grttiu, pedicel very short ; gl. I more or less twisted, lanceolate, many-nerved, 

 W keel winged; II linear-lanceolate, margins ciliate; III and IV hyaline, short, 

 glabrous. Sessile spikelets of the bomogamous pair like the pedicelled. 



Ltgule of hairs ; column of awn usually bearded ; callus long. 



tn f\ ^^"arlensis, RacJc. in Flora (1885) 123 ; stem tall sheathed 

 Bn'V ^^^P\^^.^^^s very narrow, sheaths terete, ligule of 2 rows of hairs, 

 rail ^"^ ^^' ^l^^der partially sheathed, sessile fem. spikelets ^ in., 

 ^auus acute bearded with white hairs, gl. I linear-oblong dorsally channelled 

 -nerved glabrous, awn 1-1^ in. base dilated and 2-toothed, pedicelled spike- 

 i in. glabrous. Heteropogon polystachyon, Arri. in Wight Cat n. 2321. 



sll^/f^^^ ; aear Bellary, Wight {Cat n. 2321 in part). 

 m^ tt., ascending, branched above, terete, glabrous. Leaves 6 in. or more, 

 •iieath* I°K "^^^' gi't^en, quite smooth, puberulous above, setaceously acuminate ; 

 lower 1-4 '^^^^^^ ^~^ ^°-» slender, green, joints and pedicels shortly ciliate, 



«lraieht ^^^^^ ^^ spikelets homogamous, male. Sessile fem. spilcekts pale, callus 

 ieelsRi k""F^^' k1. I chartaceous, glabrous, G-nerved margins narrowly iuflexed, 

 inflexed TIT -^^ entire hyuUue ; II oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, margins 

 W plj^^^^'^^^'^^^^^^y^l'^^hroxis; IV awn stout, column ciliate with white 

 Um.dTu''^'^^^^^^ i in., lanceolate, shortly pedicelled; gl. I lanceolate, 

 ^^ile sliL i^ ' ^^ narrower, o-nerved, cihate ; III and IV very narrow, glabrous. 

 i^^f^eiet ot homogamous pair like the pedicelled. 



connatM^',****'^*®*' -Hoofc./. ; leaves seabrid, ligule a row of stiff bristles 

 "liort hir! f ' 'P'^^^ ^1 ^°- Sreen, hispi^i, sessile iem. spikelets | in., calhis 

 Berveg nK ' ^. ^ oblong, terete rufous villous dorsally not channel ed, 

 H in vpl"°'if' ^7 ^'™ l^^-2 in. seabrid base acute, pedicelled spikelets 

 "'aDv-ner?/ n ^ pedicelled green, gl. I narrowly lanceolate acuminate 

 ^ased bristle ^^^ ^ marginal series of long spreading golden tubercle- 



"»'">* ba,P ^''"^ ""^> s«<?")- Leaves 1 ft. by ^ in., coriaceous, linear from a 

 '"•^fcle.bai^H *^™'«^te, flat, rigid, shortly hairy on both surfaces hau-s tine 

 ^^''^w ^ithn^^'S'"' spinulosely serrulate ; sheath smooth ; ligule membranous ^ 

 ^"'^^ of SDikpl "'i.'^'''^ '*'"''*^'' tbun the very Harrow sheaths, stout ; lower 1-.. 

 jWnel!edr'f,V"m"gai»ous. Sessile fem. spikelets solHj villous; gl.l not 

 ^^°«asw« ,y' ^^ ""«''••. 3-nerved, with a coriaceous hispid centre audniem- 



•""g. liyalinp t . »'•"'""». excepc tor tUe bristles, li mm-cuwi,^^, - 7 i- V.i-. 

 '***'^l'le sn^w'r l!^7^ ^^'"^ «"ly the top of a branch with a single leaf ot tins 

 . , Itcies. ihe ligule is imperfect. 



^'«8 subenJ'i^*''***"^. H'^c^^i- ^^ Sieud. Syn. Gram. 368 ; dwarf, annual, 



•^asuorm acuminate softly hairy margins thickened, spikes short, 



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