

218 OLxxiii. GRAMiNEj;. (J. D, Hooker.) [IseileM* 



by the callus of the bisexual spikeleta piercing the skin or becoming otherwise 

 attached to animals. — Species 6, tropical Asiatic and Australian. 



lax. 



i- 



Keel and suhmarginal nerves oftlie spatlies gramdate or tulercled. . 



1. Z. Wigrhtli, Anderss. in Nov. Act Soc. Sc UpsaL Ser. 3, ii. 251; 

 panicle decompound rather dense, spathes linear-lanceolate shorter or 

 rather longer than the peduncle, invol. spikelets | in. almost concealing 

 the bisexual. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 679; Lishoa in Journ, Bomb.yaU 

 Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 218. Anthistiria prostrata, Willd. Sp. PI iv. Wl; 

 Moxb. FL Ind. I 250, A, cimicina, Edgexo. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. {Im 

 182 {in Bot. ZexL (1852) 860) ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 400 ; Bnthie Grass. ^Jr. 

 Lid. 24. A. AVightii, Nees ex Steud. I. c. ; Duthie I. c. A. Linnaeana, 

 Steud. I.e. Andropogon prostratus, Linn. Mant. ii. 304. Cymbopogon 

 glandulosus, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 14. — Anthistiria, Wall. Gat. n. 8770. 



Throughout India; from the Panjab eastwards to Burma, and southwards to 

 ^Malabar and Mysore, , 



Perennial; stem 6 to 3 ft., erect or base decumbent, rarely as stout at the w^ 

 'as' a goose-quUl, usually slender; nodes often bearded. Leaves 4-8 in., °*"^** ' 

 smooth or scaberulous/ floral scabrid with tubercled margins, upper glabrous 

 hairy; lignle membranous, truncate. Panicle long or short, more or less coaipoun . 

 branches crowded or distant, strict or geniculate; nodes bearded; lower spa 

 foliaceous, floral ^J in., keels and margins tubercled. Involucr. spikelets vn^^ 

 neuter, pedicelled, oblong-lanceolate ; gl. I 5-ribbed, scaberulous. Bisexual ^Prtj^^^^ 

 gl. I bicuspidate ; II 3-nerved ; IV a slender awn three times as long as the spiK 

 or longer, — Very variable in stature, length of leaves and habit of the panicle. 



2. X. argrutum, Anderss. I.e. 252; panicle linear elongate very la^*^ 

 spathes elliptic-lanceolate about three times as long as the V^^^ V^K^f 

 Bpike, invol. spikelets \ in. shorter than the bisexual. HacTc. -"^^T] 

 Androp. 681. Anthistiria arguta, Nees ex Steud. S^n. Oram. f^^. 



.Anthistiria, Wall. Gat. n. 8769. 



Burma; at Prome, Wallich. Qjjia., 



Stem 2-3 ft., very slender, leafy at the base, compressed below. Leaves ^ J' 

 narrowly linear, coriaceous, smootli except towards the spinulose rounded tips, F 

 striate, midrib broad, floral with spinulose margins and ciliate base; sheatn ^^^ 

 pressed; ligule a very short membrane. Panicle almost filiform, ^^^^*^?^' j^es 

 distant almost capillary branches; nodes ciliate ; spathes ^-| in., keels ana n 

 granulate or tubercled. InvoL spikelets shortly stoutly pediceiled, ^i"^^^''^'^"5.,g^^gi 

 glumes 2, I 5-ribbed scaberulous, keels ciliate, tubercled; II 3-nerved. ^^^^f^\^i 

 spikelets linear-lanceolate; gl. I long-beaked, beak scabrid; IV a slender awn.^ 

 materials are scanty ; more specimens may modify the above characters. 



** £eel and suhmarginal nerves of spathe not granulate or tuberc 



3. Z. lazum, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 682 ; panicle slender, »P^^ 

 erect, invol. spikelets with short filiform pedicels covering the ^^^\K^q^%. 

 3 glabrous, bisexual spikelet narrowly lanceolate pediceiled K^^ ^j^ 

 Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. hid. 43 ; Lishoa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hut. ^^ • . 

 (1891) 218. T. prostratum, Anderss. in Nov. Act Soc. Sc. Upsal ^^''* ^^^^ 

 251 {ezcl. Syn.\ t. 111. Anthistiria prostrata, Willd., (3. glaucescens, . 

 in Wight Cat. n. 1711 b. Andropogon parviflorus, Herb. Wight f '.^^ 

 Cat. 8767 C. A. prostratum, Herb. Muss, ex Wall Cat. I c D.— Antnib 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8767 A {in small part), B. C. D. ^^ 



UfpebGangetic Plain; Patna, Wallich. The Deccan Peniksuia, fr^^ , 



Concau southward, Wight, he. 



