ArdhUtiria.] CLxxiii, graminb^. (J. D. Hooker.) 217 



tte awned ; IV the hyaline base of the awn.— Hackel classifies the form of this protean 

 pant nnder 6 subspecies and 12 varieties. Of these the Indian (exchisive of inter- 

 mediates) may be grouped as follows. They do not affect definite areas, and some of 

 »m may be different states of one variety. 



Bubsp. ^enuina, Hack, 1. c. 672 ; panicle decompound, branches branclilets and 

 peauncle of spike villous with rusty hairs, proper sheaths I-I^ in., spikelets i-| in. 

 w more dorsally hirsute with rusty-brown hairs, bisexual spikelets 1-3 in each 

 raceme i m. awned or not. A. giganfcea, Cav. L c. A. vulpina, Anderss. in Nov. 



r2 n f ^D^^' ^^^' "' (^^^^) ^^^5- Androscepia gigantea, var. a, Brongn, in Voy. 



M f / fS; Awn^7t Enum. PI, i. 484 {excL 8yn.). Calaminea gigantea, Roem, ^ 



^. aysrn. 810 (now Beauv,). Perobachne secunda, PresZ. BeL Hcenk. i. 348, t. 



eoffiti"/"^''^'"^^'** (including subsp. intermedia), Hack. I.e. 674; panicle 

 tiliie i 1 ^ -^"^ ^^^' ^^^".^^6s ancl branchletB glabrous, proper spathes 1^-2 in. 



ioxi 



ft^ Q >r ^' AuncA Kevis. Gram, i. 363, t. 95, ii'n«/». 4»:5, iWwppt. ^y^ ; 

 ^^iZ ''T' ^^^' ^""^^'^ ^■^«^^- -^•^- -^«^- 23, Fodd, Grass. N, Ind, 42. 



457 ^S°!-.^^* ^* ^^^^^' ^•^- Cymbopogon arundinaceum, SchuU. Ma^it.iu 

 from aw- '^ .^^"' ^''^' °- S763, 8772, 8774 B.— Subsp. intermedia, differs 

 \imh ^'^^^^ ^^ *^® ^^®s hirsute male spikelet and in the awn reduced to a 



iW in or ft 1 Diiiuuuu ur Bcuoeruious, omexuai B^jmeicta 5— » lu., «"" 



*'^.^'c A ^i^losa, JPoir. Encych Suppl. i. 396; Lamk. III. t. 841, f. 3; 

 ^{exel\ \^^^^^^'^^^'^^'^'^' Androscepia gigantea & mutica, Jnderss.l.c. 

 i.364 ;^iilV'^' 3 (gigantea). Andr. gigantea, var. sundaica, Buese PI. Jungh. 

 8^. 3 i/ T^o* ""t?^'^^' "^^*^- ^"^ TyascTir. Nat. Oesch. x. 117, t» Ann. Sc Nat. 

 ^'76.J.A.«ftn; ^t. ^.eterolytrou scabrura, Jungh. I c— Anthistiria, Wall Cat. n. 



8774 A. g'gantea, ^ 



beneath smooth except the 



r^"<J mareiti 7 "'-'^* ^- *'• o/> ! leaves glaucous beneatn smoouu eiuc^u i"«= 



Pfinches scaW i ™° "°^ sheaths quite glabrous, panicle broad compressed, 



'"^olocr. BDitti , \ Pedicelled spikelets nearly smooth except the scabrid keels, 



'"bentic gfecime * ^ in-— Terai of the Himalaya, Ku»tze.-I have seen no 



Ay-„„ doubxpttl species. 



P»W/.) with itn ^' ' f"^ imperfect specimen from Chota Nagpur, Dr. TToorf (Herb. 

 ^'i^S cordate anV"^° " ^''''- "^ ^- Sfiffantea, var. viiioia, but with very broad leaves 



" a«»d amplexicaul at the base. 



55. ZSEZLEKA. jffiiot 



'J'^elet/oaTiT i^^^^^^^^^a in each spike being jointed below the involucral 

 *^ 'Jowerinff P, ^^ i*3 peduncle, and falling away from it as a whole 

 ?r^M anf U^ ^*'®*^ ^° -^ntUstiria the involucrant spikelets are 

 ^^^^\ olservea t? ^ j'* °^ *^® ^P^*"® deciduous. 



In the former case, as 



^' ^"6 dispersal of the species is by the wind, in the latter 





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