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ropogon.] clxxiii. graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 205 



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Yrt. filiculmis, Hook. f. ; stem 12-16 in., rery slender, leaves ^^-i in. broad, 

 jpikes reddish-brown.— Upper Burma, Fort Stediuan. Herb. Hort. CalcutL— 

 ™bably only a depauperate form. 



Var. versicolor, Hack. 1. c. 610 ; leaf-base cordate semi-amplexicaul, spathes 

 ami violet and red, spikelets more or less variegated or the pedicelled violet. 

 A. versicolor. Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1705; Lhhoa in Jonrn, Bomb. Nat. Hist, 

 ^ociv (1889) 120, vi. (1891) 65. A. aromaticus, Sieh, FL Maurlt {Serb, 

 ^^^'^(^c.) n. 38. A. connatus, HochH. in A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyss, ii. 464. A. 

 excavatns, Eochst. in Flora (1846) 116. A. folistus & polyneuros, Steud. 8yn. 

 m^'k ^^^' ^ nardoides, ^8, Nees I.e. A. pachynodes, j8, Nees PI. Meyen. 

 C\ ft^„P^"^°osus, Nees ex Steud. L c. 388. A. Sdioenanthus, Wall. Cat. 8794 

 ];^^^fmo,Baher FL 3fauTit.4i6: Trim. Cat. Ceul. PI. 107: Went. Hort. Cels. 



inena connata, Ascliers Sf Schweinf. in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. .Ethiop. 310. 

 Ter **"' ^^^^"^^^ Hack, 1. c. ; whole plant more or less glaucous, stem slender, leaves 

 bJ ^^""^^^ ^^^*^ "^^ dilated, panicle subsimple, gl. I narrowlv wincred. ?A. 

 vToAA -^^ ■^^- ^^- ^^''^*- 173. A. ea?siu.s Nees in Hook. &- Am. Bot. Beech. 

 M A^r^^' ^%en. 189; Wight Cat. n. 1700, 1700a. A. Martini, Benth.FL 

 fi.8796 -^^ Iwarancusa, Botss. FL Orient, v. 466. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. 



paniclT •^^'^^^^^'"^^' ^^*^^'- ^-5 ^^ancons, stem very slender, leaves 2-4 by | in., 

 sVikMpfV™*^ ' ^""^^^^ of rachis of spikes and pedicels nearly glabrous, gl. I of sessile 

 [IkrlW'lT^ '^'''"'''^ '-hannel deep or shallo^v. Andropo-ou, WaU. Cat. u. 8796 



' Snii n 7^' Tracbypogon c^sius var, a, Nees in Herb. Wight 

 * the n / H ^'^**'^^^'^' ^"^*^' ^•^' ^12; habit of var. c<€sius, but gl. 1 and II 

 AndrmvT i^^ fptkelet pubescent. A. clandestmus, Nees ex SteuL I c. 388. 

 Sori.CnT\ ''^^' ^''^' °- ^794 I K.— Burma. Wallich; Upper Burma, Herb. 



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Wv ■ 1?' ^*'d"s, Linn. Sp. PL 1046 ; stem tall panicnlately branched 

 ^enseVn r °^^^°^^ ^^^'^ panicle subsimple to decompound, spikes in 

 Hicek r 1^°^^^ compacted sheathed fascicles or sahsolitary, joints and 

 ^' 'anceolft 1 T "'^^'" *'P^ dilated toothed, sessile spikelets \-i in. oblong 

 •^oicave to A ^■^'^o^hed, dorsally flat or witb shallow depressious or 



^cabernTA^^^^ ^^® ^^se, margins winded or narrowly margined and 

 ""Qions above thw i-n^AAU as 



^ -•"' """ve xne middle. 

 ^EiioTSiy *•>«, blotter parts of India, Buema, the Malay PfiNiNsuiA and 



; Jn its ,rl°'' ^'^^^''ted.— DiSTKiB. Trop. Asia, Africa, Austr.ilia. 

 ^^«<1 form f T ™ ^* ^^ difBculfc to distinguish A. Nardus from the narrow 

 'Pitelet of th 1 ft.' ^"^^'^^i^^, except by the clett in the gl. I of the sessile 

 ^■"iia and pI t ' ^"'^ ^^^ always very clearly by that. Both are cultivated m 

 'ordatelea'V ^ ''^' ^^^ ^- tardus is (except in foliage never having the broadly 

 '^'■''elate allnf^tl^'^'*^ "^^ variable as its ally. I have been unable satisfactorily to 

 •"tablisliej K Ti^ ,^*^^ I"<i'an f»rms with the elaborate classification of varieties 

 *'»'onaiand „ ^"^^''el. Both his and my conclusions must be regarded as pro- 

 1""^^ of all fl ^^P^"'" ^'^ ^^ disturbed by a study of additional niateriuls, or by a 

 r '''Story nf *? ^°™^ '" their native localities by a specialist who has grasped 

 n * of hJv 1. 'P^*''^' ^ild »nd cultivated, over a large area of its distnbntion. 

 IH be re^fni^ "*'"'"'^'^«' distans, regarded as a species by Nees, should, I 

 "■■^^l) ; it i« , *" *'"^t '■a"k ,' excluding a Ceylon plant included under it by 

 *"''"«''t in UK-, "'""^'y « Himalayan form, not found below 4000 ft., and is very 



Tk» ^ "*">t and fn);o„^ •' ' 



The v" T'^«'^d foliage. 



. ITie Var " roiiage, 



^''"*^« (with '^p "T' ^*"'^'-' is founded on an awnless form of the plant, which I 



^'mens in Vh ?"'"«*') ^o be a cultiratod state, having seen no awnless 



C*"'""!!? wW ™^ '^°<^"'n to be wild. The name is therefore inappropriate 



'^' oppressed ' °"^ °° '* represents the first described state of the plant, and 



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