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part, glabrous. Nodes long-bearded. Leaves lanceolate, cordate at 

 the base, acute or acuminate, with a few long hairs ; the lower cauline 

 leaves long, the upper small, but their sheaths very long. Ligula 

 small. Spikes numerous, erect, branched, pedicellate (the pedicel 

 of the lower spikes longer) and congested at the end of a long pe- 

 duncle without a sheathing bract, and forming an erect, dense, ovoid 

 panicle. The rachis, pedicel, and the spikes covered with long silky 

 hairs. The spikelets nearly two lines long, of a purple colour ; the 

 sessile and the pedicellate similar. Outer glume of the sessile spike- 

 let rather thin, many-nerved, somewhat obtuse, and covered with long 

 silky hairs, with a pith in some spikelets of the same plant and absent 

 in others ; second glume as long as the first, or a little longer but 

 broader, thin, and keeled ; third glume thinner and hyaline, fourth 

 glume smaller or an awn ^ — 1 inch long, with an hermaphrodite 

 flower at the end of the pedicel. Pedicel of the pedicellate spikelet 

 with white hairs, but the spikelets almost free of hairs. Outer glume 

 with five or more nerves, not prominent, almost obtuse ; second glume 

 thinner, with three nerves, somewhat broader but as long as the first ; 

 third glume hyaline, smaller ; fourth glume very small, hyaline, or 

 none ; no awn ; at the top of the pedicel three stamens, not well 

 formed, and not as large as in the hermaphrodite flower. 



" This grass is common at Lanowlee on the right side of the station, 

 in the fields beyond the woods, where it grows along with Pollinia 

 tristachya, Thw., Ischcemum laxum, R. Brown, ArundinaecaNepalensvi, 

 Trinn., and other annual grasses. The purple-coloured spikes of 

 A. odoratus and Pollivia tristachya congested at the end of long 

 peduncles, form a most elegant and beautiful feature of the scenery 

 of the field towards the end of the rainy season. It is said to be 

 not uncommon at Khardi, Thana. I have found it in the collection 

 received from this district." 



" From the description and from the specimen laid on the table, 

 vou will see that this Andropogon belongs to the section Gymnopogon, 

 and is different from all other aromatic Andropogons, and as I believe 

 it to be a new species, I have called it, as I have said above, A. 

 odoratus. The leaves and the infloresence also, when pressed 

 between the fingers, emit an odour altogether different. If you 

 examine the small quantity of oil, of a beautiful gold yellow colour, 



