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cylindric, convolute, acuminate, tip produced into a long 3-partite (very 

 rarely simple) naked or feathery awn twisted below the branches; paiea 

 very narrow, embraced by the gl., sometimes minute or 0. Lodicules 2. 

 Stamens 3. Styles distinct. Grain narrow, free within the closely con- 

 Tolute gl.— Species. (assumed) about 100, natives of warm countries. ...> 



The species and synonymy as given below have been revised by Dr. Stapf , 

 with the Oriental and African. . ,. V 



Sect. I. CHiETARiA, Awn tripartite from the base, not or imperfect!^ 

 articulate with the top of the gl., persistent, glabrous. '^'^^ 



1. A. Cumingrlana, Trin. & Rupr. in Mem, Acad Fetersb. Set, "VL 

 vii. (1849) 134; annual, dwarf, panicle very slender, spikelets (without the 

 awns) -f^-^Q in., awn inarticulate 'at the base. Steud. Syn. GrarnAi^\ 

 Miq. Fh Ind. Bat. iii. 381 ; Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. (1873) 135. A. 

 capillacea, Cav. Ic. v. 43, t. 468, f. 1 (non Lamk.) ; Steud. I.e. 134. A- 

 delicatula, B.oc]i}&t. ex A. Rich. Tent Fl. Abyss, ii.293; Steud. I.e. 139- _f 

 tenella, Kurz in Herb. Calcutt. A. trichodes, Walp. Ann. iii. 753; M^i- 



I c. 380 ; Steud. I. c. 140. Chsetaria trichodes, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 ii. (1850) 101. •• . 



^ W. Bengal, Kuts. Chota Nagpoee, Clarke. Prau, Kurz; on the Shan 



Hills, Collett — DisTEiB. China, Philippines, Afr. trop. . .' 



Stem 3-10 in., tufted, very slender. leaves filiform. Fanicle subcylmdnt', 

 narrow, loosely branched, rachis branches and pedicels capillary, scaberulous. ^P 

 lets green or purplish; gls, acuminate, lllongest; Til as long as I, Bcaberulousj 

 arms of awn twice as long as the gls., capillary, median longest. '."'^ 



2. A. AdscenBclonlB, Unn. Sp. PL 82 (eo'cL Syn. ^Zoa7?e)> annual 

 or perennial, panicle contracted, branches short or elongate and naKe 

 helow, spitelets (excl. awns) J-i in. acnte, gl I acnminate not ^^^ * 



II obtuse or emarginate and mucronate, awn inarticulate at the pas ; 

 Kunth Enum. PL i. 190; Steud. Syn. Gram. 139. 



Throughout the Plains and low Hills of India, Burma and Ctno^* 



ascending to 8000 ft. in Kiishmir. — Disteib. Most warm countries. •« 



Stems 6 in. —3 ft., tuftid, usually almost filiform, rarely as thick as a crow-qn^^^ 

 smooth. Leaves very narrow, smooth or scaberulous. Panicle 3-12 in., ^^^^'^^Fj^ 

 or compound, rachis and capillary branches nearly smooth ; branches very short ^ 

 subsessile fascicles of spikelets, or longer, and erect or spreading, Spifce/e^^ P 

 green or purpli.^h ; gl. I ^-^ in., acute; II i-^ in., tip truncate inucronula i 



III ^-J in., smooth or scabrid ; middle branch of awn i-| in., rarely 1 in. , _ 



Dr. Stapf, who has reviewed the whole genus, informs me that besides the '*j^*^^^ 

 synonyms, which apply to Old World forms, there are in the New World 11 ot 

 under ArisHda, and 14 under Chcetaria. . «. -^ 



Var. typicay Stapf. mss. ; gl. Ill about as long as II, A. abyssinica, i _^ 

 4- Rupr. in Mem. Jcad. Fetersh. S^r. VI. vii. (1849) 134. A. ^^^}^^i^ 

 Desf. Fl. Ailant. i. 109, t. 21, f. 2 ; Kunth L c. 191, Suppl. 146 ; Steud. I. c-^'j^ 

 Boiss. FJ. Orient, v. 491; Buthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 26. A. canarieiiSiS '^'^ ^ 

 Enum. PI. 99. A. chaitophylla, modatica, simplicissima & Teneriffse, Steud. • 

 139,420. A. curvata, Nees ex A. Rich. Tent. FL Abyss, ii. 392. A. ^*^P^^ 

 Retz. Obs. iv. 22; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 351; Wall. Cat. n. 3786; Kuntn"^-^'^.-^^ 

 Svppl. 146 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 370 ; Trim. Cat. CeyL FL 108 ; Dalz. ^ ^ , 

 Fomh. FL 295; Aitch. Cat. Favjab PL 164 {excL Syn. setacea) ; Benth. Fl. ^% . 

 vii. 5^3; Dnthie I c. ^ Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 47, t. 30. A. divaricata, J Jj^ 

 Eclog. Oram. 7, t. 6 {non Willd). A. elatior, Car. Ic. vi. 65, t. 589, f. 1/ ^ ^, 

 I.e. i. 191. A. featucoidep, Ebch^t. et Steud. ex Trin. ^^ Rupr. (non Foir^h 



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