208 CLXxiii. GRAMiNEJi!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon, 



pot with \or\^ snbninte-lanceolate cUiate lobes. — Specimens collected by Falconer 

 nnd by Duthie, at 8900 ft. in Garwbal, have filiform flexuons or tortuous leave?. 

 Tlie Ceylon A, distans, Thwaites, from Newera Elia, is a much longer leared plant, 

 bas very dark spikes and is a dwarf starved stnte of A. nilacjiricay I suspect 

 Lisboa (Jouru. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) cites A. distans as a native 

 of N, Catiara, but I have no means of confirming the identification. 



74. A. mlcrotheca, Hook. /. ; tall, panicle elongate narrow de- 

 compound, branches very slender erect elongate, spikes i~l in. solitary 

 rarely fascicled shortly peduncled deflexed, proper spathes | in. narrowlj 

 lanceolate divaricate, spikes very short, joints few and pedicels clavateor 

 bucciniform mouth toothed margiuB very shortly ciliate, sessile spikelew 

 ^y-i in., gl. I ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate dorsally deeply concave witii 

 thickened margins, pubescent in the hollow. 



East Nepal ; hot valleys, alt. 3-4000 ft., J". D. U. 



Stem 3-1 ft., slender. Leaves long, narrow. Panicle leafy below; loaves on the 

 flowering branches short, erect, strict, appressed to the branches, hearing in tbeir 

 axils the very small peduncled proper spathes which project horizontally; pedunce 

 of spikes about half the length of the proper spathe and wholly concealed in it, the 

 very small few-fld. spikes alone being exserted ; proper spathes 3— | in., ^^^^^?7 

 lanceolate, acuminate, strict, glabrous. Ol. I of sessile spikelets variable in bre;iat , 

 rarely flat dorsally, keels scaberulous above the middle, tip minutely 2-caspmate, 

 II acnte, keel scaberulous below the tip ; III ovate-oblong, acute, 2-nerved, cuiatei 

 lY narrow, 2 fid, lobes subulate eciliate, awn ^ in. ; palea minute, oblong ororbicaU|' 

 Pedicelled aplkelets (sometimes fem.), ovate-oblong, subacute, gl. I 7-norvca, k^' 

 scaberulous; II acuminate, 3-uerved; III oblong, obtuse; IV linear, tip y" » 

 1-nerved nerve excurrent; palea minute, ovate. — The long slender branches ot t 

 panicle, with rather distinct spikes, and divergent proper spathes, short stout P^^^ 

 and joints, and minute spikelets (the smallest of the Indian Cyynlopoffons) cw^ 

 terize this species. Its nearest ally is N. Nardus var. .microstachys, Monro 

 given the mss. name of Hookeri to it; but it is not his A. Hookeri of Bhotan,Tio 

 that described by Hackel. The pedicelled spikelets described above are abnormal 1 

 being female. 



75. A. G-ldarba, Ham. ex Wall, Cat, n. 8797; stem slender s^^^ 

 simple, leaves narrow, panicle narrow elongate, branches rather distan^ 

 short, joints and pedicels clavate, sessile spikelets |-^ in., gl. I ^^°^*k 

 lanceolate 2-toothed dorsally deeply concave below the middle '^^ 

 a boss at the base of the cavity, keels scaberulous neither wingp;|l ^^.^ 

 margined. Sfend. S^yn. Grain. 387; IlarJc Monogr. Androp. 613; D^^^^ 

 Grass. K.W. Ind. 20!— Andropogon, Wall. Gat. n 8797, 8798 D. 



Westetix Himalaya, Falconer, &q, -, Simla, alt. 7-8000 ft., Duthie. BbHAB. 



at Monj;hir, Hamilton; Gya, Herh. Calcutt. e^ 



Sfcm 4-6 ft, erect. Leaves 1-2 ft., finely acuminnto, glabrous on 1>«*^*^ ^"[ '*^. 

 or pubernlous above, midiib slender, margins smooth ciliate towards the oa^^ 

 sheath terete, glabrous ; ligule short, truncate. Panicle very slender, "'^"f jj{ 

 simple or the lower divided; proper spathes %-\ in., narrowly lanceolate, » . 

 twice as long as the peduncle. Spikes \~l in., strict, at length deflexed ; J^*^" , 

 pedicels shortly villous. SessVe spiJcelets pale or dark green, with sometuo^^^ 

 dorsal circular pit above the middle, margins raised; II cymbiform, acute, ^'"^[^jp' 

 III lanceolate, 2.nerved ; IV narrow, 2-^cIeft, lobes subulate ciliate ; «^*" ^'Vj^^e^ 

 capillary. Pedicelled spikelets rather longer than the sessile, lanceolate, ^ ; 



glabrous.— Odour described as terebinthine^ . . 



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