* 



: JitiTema,] .. ." olxxiii. gramine^. (J. D. Hooker.) 219 



•rf«njf tufted, 8-36 in., erect or ascending. Leaves narrow, 3-10 in., linear, 



.obtwe, base ciliate; sheaths lax ; ligule membranous, truncate. Panicle ^exuous, 



Harrow; branches short, distant ; spathes i in., elliptic-lanceolate. reddish, keel and 



nerves Bcabrid. Invol, spikelets | in.; pedicels glabrous; gl. I oblong-hinceolate 



lubacute, 5-Derved ; II 3 -nerved ; III linear. Bisexual spikelets; pedicel ciliate; 



|i.lchartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, tip truncate; II acuminate, 1-nerved; IV 

 iwn j-i in., very slender. 



I. anthephoroidesf Haclc. Mo?iogr. Androp. 683 ; panicle crowded 

 racemes divergent, in vol. spikelets very shortly broadly pedicelled 

 ] 2, I with 5 strong villous ribs, bisexual spikelet subsessile. An- 

 la prostrata, var. spic. masc. longe ciliatis, Wight Gat. n. 2335. 

 >tina, WalL Cat r. R7fi7 a ^ 



leafy 



,- ^ 



Jie SoriHERN Deocatt Pen 



NSULA, Wighty &C, 



any allied to T, laxum, but a shorter stouter plant, with more crowded branches 

 pwucle and racemes. 



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551. PSEUDANTKZSTIRIA, HooTc.f. 



, '" Not in Clavis, p. 5. 



Ann Dal 



»antL?S ^^^^^^^' "^it^ the habits and characters of Antkistiria, but 

 ^^S me involucrant spikelets of that genus.— Disteib. India. 



^(vdanthistiria was regarded by Hackel as an anomalous section of his sub- 



Renns B 



^anmstma was regarded by Hackel as an 

 ar 7„ '>L£-<^roposon, with the habi 



pointed out »h/ ^ndropogon, v,ith the habit of Anthistir%a. As l nave 

 characters taf n ^^' ^^^^ '* ^^ ^ remarkably distinct genus of Andropogonea with 

 'Androp " T ti^ '^^ variance with those of Uypogynium as given in the " Monogr. 

 ^'feropoffoBfl j'°^ ^^'^'' '^ ^^ °^^ °^ « natural group with Anthistiria, Leilema, 

 f'-lWin/mr, ^f '■'"«»'»»<»• I am doubtful as to the specific value of some of the 

 '^'s, as ill ,„ !! ^'^P^ous material of all collected by good observers is wanting in 



" '° '"^"y other genera of grasses. 



*ore or wf *®r®°"**» ^^^o^- /• 5 leaves 6-12 in. linear glabrous or 

 ?^oper snath i^^ ^^r\es distinct, fascicles of spikes about k m- broad, 

 ^"^ Wspidn r^ *u^- liardly longer than the spikes, sessile spikelets ^-^ 

 *^'tu8, See.P^ ^i ^^^^' ^^^ t in. base lanceolate. Andropogon hetero- 

 ^^drop m fj''- ^^s^*"- 115; Steud. Syn. Gram.'im; Hack. Monogr. 



■^thistim k . ^'"ooomeros, ifocAsf. in Holien. PI. Ind. Or.- n. 183. 

 Bexgal ^ ^'■"''^^t^' -^''«^- -^'^- -^"rf- i- 249 ; Kunth Enum. Tl. i. 483. 



^«»won,&i:i ^''^^""■es near Calcutta, Roxlurgh. The Concan and Canaea, Law, 



Sle or branpi P"'^°'«te, slender, rarely as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, sub- 

 T''" «nd ffia? • • -^*''^'** i-i hi. broad, ciliate on both surfaces together with the 

 ^'*^f'>D8 in Wa!'"^ ^''^^^ ^°°& tuberclfd -based hairs in Calcutta specimens, nearly 

 >Wnoas P • P"*"^ ' sheaths much shorter than the internodes ; lignle short, 

 ^'"='«; mox>Z.T 1 """^ ^'^'■ge. leafy, compound, with many shortly pednncled 

 r'l«; kM on-T \''' ""<^ pedicelled spikelets with a few long t.il.ercle-based 

 !*'"■ W the !r. f • ^*''' «f «wn hiiear-lanceolate.-l have seen no Bengal speci- 

 ^^ ''^ to its L '"i ^^""^^ 'fi Roxburgh's " Icones pictje" leaves no doubt in my 

 ?***• Ast^cj''5.«^t''e8anie species as the western plant, only more copiously 



^"'"Ja, the liken u" "^'^- ^'*^^^" f'O'i^ li^cl'el was communicated as AnamUna 



«nes8 between thesp tivn rKIoTl^= k,,;,.^ cr. rlAr^entive. 



luspia 



ween these two plants being so deceptive. 



^;h^^^S^:.^^^-f' 



'^P'Ottsly hSr g^brescenti nerves distinct, fascicles of spikes J ip. broad 



^rsute with tubercle-based bristles, outer spathes li-2 in. long, 





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