GRAMINE^. 457 



lower flattened and keeled. Panicle 6 by 3 to 4 inches. 

 Branches very slender, nearly glabrous, green and bluish, 

 villous with rusty brown hairs under the spikelet. One 

 awn only to the set. Sessile spikelet : glume i round- 

 backed, scabrid near the tip, two-nerved, minutely 

 two-toothed ; gl. ii one-nerved, awnless, mucronate ; 

 gl. iii purplish ; gl. iv with slender awn l^ inches. 

 Pedicelled spikelet : gl. i seven-nerved, three lateral 

 nerves very near the edge and close together; gl. ii 

 hyaline, three-nerved ; gl. iii purplish down the middle 

 with two obscure nerves ; gl. iv small, hyaline nerveless • 

 stigma dark purple. 



Pulneys : round Kodaikanal and on the downs. Bourne 

 1009, 1209. 



HBTEROPOGON. See p. 455. 



Hcteropogon contortus Beauv. (Andropogon con- 

 tortus Linn.) ; F.B.L vii 199, LIII 63. Stem about I foot, 

 densely tufted- Leaf-blades l/^ to 3 inches, rather rigid, 

 mouth of sheath with long hairs : no membranous ligule. 

 Spike I to 2 inches of eight to eleven pairs of flowers, 

 and a terminal solitary sessile spikelet. Sheath of 

 pedicelled spikelet very short. Spikelets, J^ inch: glume i 

 many-nerved with hair on swollen base, Glume iv of 

 sessile spikelet with hirsute awn 2 inches long. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal, on the downs, by Fairy falls, etc. 

 Boicrne 1207,* 2025, etc. 



CYMBOPOGON. See p. 455 



Coarse strongly scented grasses with spikes (of paired 

 spikelets) paired in the axils of sheathing bracts. Spikes 

 (of a pair) similar, or one stalked, the other sessile. In 

 each spike the lowest pair of spikelets similar, male or 

 neuter: of the other pairs, the sessile (male) spikelet 

 flattened back and front, glume iv with awn. 



