Graniinece.l ceylox plants. 363 



Hab. South of the island. 



Spicula subglabrce vel plus minus pilosse. 



A coai'ser plant than the preceding, with the sessile spicula; narrower in pro- 

 portion to their length, and less regularly rugose. The two are, however, very 

 closely allied. 



4. I. semisagittatum, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. i. p. 320; Steud. 1. c. p. 376. 



— c.p. 2625. 

 Hab. Ambagamowa District. 



Folia (in meis specimin.) tuherculala, pilosa. SpicuL sess, gluma inferior late 3- 

 rugosa. SpiciiL pedicelL pedicellus gluma inferiore plana striata parum brevior. 



5. I. conjugatum, Eoxb, Fl. Ind. i. p. 321; Kth. 1. c. 513.— Andro- 

 pogon cordatifolius, Steud. Lc. p. 376. — c.p. 3263. / 



Hab. Colombo, ilfr. W. Ferguson. : i*-»--''--'r -^ 



6. 1- pectinatum^ Trin. (Steud. 1. c. p. 369, cum sjn,)—Andro2)ogon 

 falcatusy Steud. 1. c— C.P- 3322. ^ ^^ e ^ m-- a> ' **«- 



Hab. Hotter parts of the island, in wet ground. 



7. I- nervosum. — Hologamium nervosum^ N. ab Es. in Edinb. Phil. 

 Journ. anno 1831, p. 185. Andropogon nervosus, Eottb. ; Steud. I.e. p. 

 370. An And/t^opogon striatus, Klein, In "WiUd. Sp. PL ir. p. 903? 



—c.p. 3138. - J<UA-M^v^ 1 - f 



Hab. Oodoopusalawa in the Central Provmce, at an elevation ot 

 3000 to 4000 feet. 



26. SPODIOPOGON, Trin. 



1. S. obliquivalvis, N.abEs.in PL Meyen. 185; Benth. FLHongk. 

 p. 426, cum syn,-^Andropogo7i maUcopJiyllns, Hochs. ; Steud. Synops. 

 Gram. p. 372. A. Macrcei, Steud. 1. c. p. 377, cum syn. A. Bluimi 

 et A, bifidus, Steud. L c. p. 373. An Ischcemum gemculatum et /. te- 

 nellum, Eosb. FL Ind. i. pp. 322, 323 ?— c.p. 875, 874, 3235, 3168, 3167. 



Hab, Common throughout the island. 



A very variable plant, and the extreme forms of it very differentia appearanro, 

 but, from the examination of a large number of specimens, I feel satished they may 

 be safely arranged under one specilic name. The larger hairy form occurs at a con- 

 siderable elevation on the hills. 



27. APOCOPIS, N. ab Ea. - 



Wightii, N. ab Es. M'&^.--Andropogon Coitrtalhtmensis, Steud. 



3000 



Synops. Gram. p. 377. — c.p. 401. 

 Hab ~ ■ . . ^ . 



4«00 fecu. 



Culmi ramosi, 1-2-pedales. Folia angnsta, acuminata, spaise tuberculata on- 

 giuscule pilosa. Spica pollicaris, pallide fulva. mrxhis nno latere pedicellisqne fulvo- 

 pilosis. Spicula iesslL U liu. longn, arista semipoUican. Gluma mfenor meom- 

 plete 7-nervia, basi, cum margiue rufesceutc, longmscule fulvo-pilosa. 



This would seem to be very closely allied to A. Wnglitii, Munro, descnbed m 

 Bentham's Fl, Hongkongeiisis. 



28. POaONATHERUM, Beauv. 

 1. P. saccharoideum, Beauv. (Benth. Flor. Hongk. p. 42L)-P.m- 



