216 CLXXiii. GRAMiNE^. (J. D. Hooker.) lAnthisHHd 



wbolly and pedicelled partially covered with tubercle-based hairs, and (3, glabrescm, 

 more glancou?, leaves pruinose, invol, spikelets dorsally glabrous or scabrous above, 

 pedicelled glabrous. 



§§ Callus of bisexual spikelets acute, 



10. A. Kookeri, Griseb. in Goetting. Nachr. (1868) 91 ; stem slender 

 simple or sparingly branched above, spikes (with their proper sheath) 

 axillary solitary long-peduncled glabrous, invol. spikelets g-f in. sessile 

 liuear-lanceolate acuminate gls. 3, bisexual spikelets 1' or 2 scabrid above 

 the middle dorsally rounded, awn |-1 in. A. gigantea sw&^p. caudata, »» 

 part, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 676. Androscepia glabrata, Anderss. *» 

 Herb, Kew. 



■ SiKKiM Himalaya ; interior ranges, alt. 6500-9000 ft-, J. D. H"., Gammie. 



Stem 1-2 ft., shortly creeping at the base, erect or geniculately ascending,^" 

 thick as a crow-quill or less. Leaves very narrow, rarely ^ in. broad, quite ^^^ ' 

 subglaucous beneath, tips filiform ; sheath smooth ; ligule short ciliolate. op 

 axils in the long erect very slender leaves, rarely geminate in one short outer spa » 

 J in. long, laterally compressed (without an outer spathe exceeding the P^^P^ J^ 

 peduncle 1-2 in., filiform, enclosed sometimes up to the spike in a very ^1*"","^^^?^.^^ 

 with a subulate tip ; proper spathe linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Rachis ot sp 

 usually exceeding the iuvoL spikelets and proper spathe, nearly glabrous. ^'^V^^ 

 spikelets quite glabrous, keels smooth, very narrowly winged. Bisexual ^P^^,^ 

 Hke those of ^. mb^rii-y iu form and colour of gl. I, and in the conic acute cau 

 densely villous with rusty-red hairs; gL II scabrid towards the tip; .^""^^ ^^^^^^ i^u 

 narrowed below to a capillary base ; lodicules membranous. Pedicelled ^^1^^ 

 much longer than the bisexual, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, ^^^*^.,1^ j^ 

 scaberulous; pedicels slender, glabrous except at the base.— Though nearest alli ^^^ 

 A, gigantea, which is a thoroughly tropical grass, this species most 5*^*^^^^^ 

 A, imberbis, and especially its van Roylei, from which it is at once distmgu 

 by wanting the long outer spathe, and by the superposed invol. spikelets. 



11. A. grl&antea, Cav. Ic. t. 36 ; tall, usually stout, spikes fe^ J^ 



narrow pedicelled fascicles terminating the branches of a ^^^'^P^^'^^j^eJ 

 decompound inclined or nodding rarely subsimple panicle, pi"oper ^P*^ 

 rather longer than the spikes, involucr. spikelets linear-lanceolate, on 

 each pair deciduous, bisexual spikelets 1-3 rufously hirsute dorsally en 

 nelled. Themeda gigantea, Sack. Monogr, Androp. 672. 



Lower Himalaya ; from Kumaon eastward?, to Assam, BKHAaand the Kh 

 Hills, ascending to 4U00 ft.— Disteib. China, Malaya, Australia, N. Caledon^^^^ 



Stem 8-16 ft., often nearly 1 in. diam. below, erect, solid, terete, g '^^ygly 

 simple be]ow% branching above, leafy. Leaves 4-8 ft. by ^-1 in., linear, setae ^^ 

 acuminate, scaberulous above, glaucous beneath, margins scabridly serrula ^^^^^^^ 

 narrowed, midrib broad, lower bifarious : lower sheaths compressed; ^^S^" ^ i,us 



membranous, ciliolate. Panicle 1-3 ft., oblong, rarely simple, inclined, ^^f'^^^^et 

 fluxuous ; spikes often pendulous; spathes narrowly cymbiform, keel ana ^^^^r 

 scabrid. Spikes m long as the proper spathes or shorter; peduncle "^^^ j ^^tja^- 



ct or divaricate. Invol, spikelets J-f in. ; S}' i.^i^ 



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than the spathe, filiform, erect or divaricate. Invol, spikelets \-\ m. ; g'- / ^^]i 

 lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, glabrous or hirsute with fulvous ^^^'l^i' ^^ or 

 scabrid; II shorter, acuminate, ciliate; III and IV still shorter, linear-oDio^».^ 

 lanceolate, ciliate. Bisexual spikelets |-i in., linear-lanceolate; callus * «^^^ 

 villous with long brown hairs; gl. I coriaceous, acute or acuminate, ^°^^.*k jj^ov^ 

 channelled, more or less villously hirsute all over or below the middle ^* ^j^t^, 

 hairs ; II acute in the awnles.H spikelets, obtuse in the awned ; III oblong-la" , .^^ 

 l-nerved ; IV = III, linear-lanceolate in the awnless spikelets, acute, 1-^^ 



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