456 GRAMINE.©. 



Nilgiris : on the downs near and below Ootacamund — 

 Pykara, Kaity, etc. Pulneys : near Kodaikanal and down to 5,500 

 feet at Periyashola. 7^;w;z 2889.^ Bo2irne 10 t,i, 1031,-^ 1470 

 1509, 5222, etc. 



Not reported from elsewhere. 



CHRYSOPOGON. See p. 455- 



Chrysopogon wightianus Nees (Andropogon wighti- 

 anus Steud.) ; F.B.L vii 191, LIII 48. Remarkable for the 

 red or purple glumes and long bent awns. 



Stems tufted 2 to 3 feet, from a short rootstock, 

 leafy. Leaf-blades 3 to 10 inches, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent, with a few scattered long hairs on the margin 

 near the base : ligule very short, villous. Panicle 8 by 

 7 inches; branches whorled, very slender, ^ to I inch, 

 each with one set only of three spikelets, or bifurcating 

 and bearing two sets, pubescent at the base and forking, 

 and clothed with erect red hairs under the spikelets, 

 or also on the stalks of the stalked spikelet. Sessile 

 spikelet ^/i inch pale yellow: glume i round backed, 

 obscurely two-nerved, glabrous up to above the middle, 

 then hairy, surrounded at the top by a hyaline wing ; gl. ii 

 keeled and with slender J^ inch awn ; gl. ii with stout 

 awn 2 inches long, bent at the middle. Stalked spike- 

 lets ^ inch, red ; gl. i seven-nerved, purple between ; 

 gl. ii three-nerved, green with purple patch, margin 

 ciliate ; gl. iii two-nerved, retrorsely ciliate ; gl. iv 

 hyaline, nerveless. 



Pulneys : in and near Kodaikanal and on the downs by 

 woods. Nilgiris ; Neduwattum ; and down to the plains at 

 Madras. Bourne 1008, 2034, 3122, etc. 



Chrysopogon zeylanicus Th. (Andropogon zeylani- 

 cus Nees.); F.B.L vii 192, LIII 50. Rootstock stout, 

 whole plant pubescent. Leaves 10 to 15 inches, narrow 

 pubescent, and margin ciliate : sheaths 3 to 4 inches, the 



