Androjaogon .] CLXxiii. guamine^, (J, D. Hooker.) 203 



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^ A. Colamn of awn of gl. IV glabrous (rarely awn 0), 



^ • Peduncle of spikes shorter than the proper spathe. 



, ' .^^i^ts of spikes and pedicels of upper spikelets copiously villous on 

 the Bides and back, hairs more or less concealing the sessile spikelet. 



70. A. Iwarancusa, Jones in Asiat, Research, iv. (1795) 109 ; stem 

 8 on or tall, leaves flat or convolute, panicle subsimple or decompound, 

 ^T^ ^ ./^^^^^ ^^^ pedicels of upper spikelets subclavate tops toothed, 

 fssiie spikelets }-J in. linear-lanceolate acute, gl. I dorsally flat glabrous, 

 «wl8 scaberulouB or ciliolate, 



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^Sf^ u ^■^' ^^^^^^ ^^°°^ ^^^ Jumna westwd., and southwd. to Scind. The 

 TERN Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaou, and Westekn Tibet, ascendhig to 

 Qf ■^- C^^Aiu and the Deccan.— Distrib. Westwd. to N. Africa. 

 usQall ^^" ' ^" ^" annulate creeping rootstock, 6 in. to 6 ft. high ; whole plant 

 capilkr ^ M^^^ ^^^^^ glaucous green. Leaves 6 in.-2 ft., narrowly linear, tips 

 »mdrib ^\ "i^ *^^ flexuous, glabrous or scaberulous, glaucous or pruinose beneath, 

 cilinl.?/ n^^' sheaths glabrous, lower dilated: ligule shortly oblong, membranous. 



ipihieU r^ ^^^'^^^- ^P'''^^^ ?-^ in-, unequal ; spikelets 3-4 pairs, sessue 

 nerves n o!i ?""^'^™^^ '■^*^*^^^'^ 5 &1- I t^^in, keels hardly margined not winged, 

 IV nair 7 u ^^^^«'<^» tlie cariiial ; II cymbiforin, acute, 3-iierved ; III 2-nerved ; 

 tban thp -1 ^"^"^a'te, ciliate. Pedic'elled spilelets as long as or rather longer 

 n ffiarlin •,'■ P"'"P^'**'' "arrowly lanceolate ; gl. I 7-9-nerved, keels scaberulous; 

 There arp ,.'^}'^' Ill broadly oblong, hyaline, fimbriate— Boots aromatic, 

 'ielar^pr °i ^'"^*'^ between A. Iwarancusa and laniger. The former is usually 

 Eastern f or ^n^v,"^"*'' broader leaves and often split sheaths, and is the most 

 dear Ri ,^'»e authority for the name hoarancusa as a specific one is not very 

 »« a'8t)('eir% ?°r'''"S his Nardus indica says that Sir J. Banks regarded it 

 "sine . nnr-k, 7"''''''^°^o^- Jo"es incidentally gives Irawancusa as the specific 



Subil / t' ™^^ ''«^''' t^'^e" 5t ff"*" Banks 

 'WthsdepiH -"^^fKANCtisA proper; tall, much branched, leaves long flat, lower 



^■n'-i Em ™ »7 ^P^'"'"? '"to Ai't often tortuous lamina^, panicle narrow compound. 



'an*, ii 'd>io It "*^*^ Grass. N W. In I. 19. Cymbopogon Iwarancusa, Schu 



^mon in N T^'"^"' '"^'^^' ^^«"'' »■« ^''"■^- ^'■«"*- ^^^^- ^^^^^) ^^*' *• \^' *• 

 *eatli8 of th- f ^ ^"^^^ ®*'*-'" °° N. African specimens with the lower leat- 



p^ mis form, a character which is, however, very inconstant.— Khuskus 



jonciform t ^^niger, i)^s/. i^/. ^Wawf. ii. 379; stem short subsimple, leaves 

 ^"•"n. PI : ;'!f sheaths hardened persistent, panicle narrow subsimple. A«ntyi 

 ^'^■Paniah vf\^^^'^'^- ^y^- Gram. 386; Had: JHonogr. Androp. bi)8 ; Ailchis. 

 .^*<'a »■« Rm r V ■^ ' ^«*^'« ^'•^^s- ^^- ^- I>'d. 20,Fodd. Grass. N. Ind.Ji>,t. 23 ; 

 f'"""", Erf^r '""■'*■ ^'«*- ■^^■*^. -Sof- vi. (181^1) ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, vn. 465. A. 

 ^o^ht. Sc Q/ ■^*'* '^'""■''- ^'^w- Soc. vi. (1SG2) 208 (Ariani). A. circimiatus 

 Oliri^i, BoUl'i:. ''■^ -S^.^cZ. Z. c. 387. A. criophorus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 90. A. 

 n'"»- Soc Ti, 7i^£?- ^- ^'^J Steud. I. c. 387. A. commutatus, AUchis. m Journ. 

 . "^'fcinnatM; 4r > ^^^ ("O" Sieut^). Cymbopogon arabicus, Nee.i ex Steud. I.e. 

 ^'^^ni, Mm.1 f"^'^- »■" '"^chimp. PL Arab e^sicc. Ed. 2 (18i4) n. 783 C. 



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^^'^elia laZ : '-f- C- '""ife'er, i)u<7ue tn ^(itj«*% Gaz. N.W. Ind. b^Q. Gym 



' " n form V "'^'■**- *'* Schweinf. Bdt. Fl ^thiop. 300. -.J. /a«t<;«r is the 



ly thT rp^^^ species, also common in N. India. Edgeworth's A. Jrriar,% 



"'3. J he A. commutatus of Aflfghauistan and Scind {Stocks) is aUo 





