CXLYII. GUAMI^\E.=E. 947 



i-^ in. loni^, purple. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 106 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 200 ; 

 Woodr. in^Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 436 ; Prain, Beng. PL 

 p. 1188; AV^att, Diet. Econ. Prod, v. 4, p. 336. Saccharum ci/lindricum. 

 Lam. Encyc. Method, v. 1 (1783) p. 594 ; Grab. Cat. p. 239. 



Kaxara: Lau>] Gujarat: Law ex Graham. Sind : Stocks'. — Disteib. Through- 

 out the hotter parts of India ; Ceylon, most warm countries. 



16. SPODIOPOGON, Trin. 



Tall grasses. L(^aves often with long petioles. Spikelets l-2-flo\vered, 

 paniculate, laterally compressed or subterete, 2-3-uate ; lower sessile, 

 Jiiale ; upper 2-sexual ; rhachis jointed. Glumes 4; invol.rglumes 

 subequal ; lower invol. -glume lanceolate, 5-9-nerved, with an aeiuni- 

 nate or toothed tip ; upper invol. -glume membranous, lanceolate, 3-7- 

 nerved ; lower floral glume hyaline, paleate or not, triandrous or empty ; 

 upper floral glume 2-fid or 2-partite, with a very slender exserted awn 

 in the sinus ; palea shorter than the glume. Lodicules cuueate. 

 Anthers linear. Stigmas linear. Grain free, narrowly fusiform. — 

 Disteib. Species about 5, Asiatic. 



1. Spodiopogon albidus, Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 19 (1881) 

 p. 66. A weak straggling tufted annual grass 2-4 ft. high ; stem 

 slender, much-branched, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by |-| in., oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 1-nerved, usually suddenly narrowed into a 

 slender petiole 1-3 in. long; sheaths |- in. loug ; ligule oblong, glabrous. 

 Panicle at first enclosed in a long narrow spatbaceous leaf-sheath ; 

 rhachis compressed, ciliate. Spikelets reaching i in. long, lanceolate, 

 silky-villous, one pedicellate, the other sessile ; pedicels y^ in. long, 

 spathulate, flattened, ciliare. Glumes 4 ; invol. -glumes equal, ovate- 

 lanceolate, finely mucronate, silky-hairy, 7-nerved ; lower floral glume 

 truncate, with erose tip, hyaliue ; upper floral glume ^ in. long, deeply 

 divided at the apex into 2 very acute lobes ; awn reaching | in. long, 

 slender. Fl. B. L v. 7, p. 108; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat, v. 13 

 (1901) p. 436. Andropogon petiolatus, Dulz. Bo, Fl. (1861) p. 303.— 

 Flowers : Oct. 



BalzcU without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan: W. Ghdts, Woodrow, 157!; 

 IWatheran, Cooke ! ; Salsette, Jacquemont, 708 ! Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow ; Malia- 

 bleshwar, (Jooke\ Kanaka: N. Kanara, Talbot, 279! — Distrib. India (Central 

 Provinces, Rajputana, W. Peninsula). 



17. SACCHARUM, Linn. 



Perennial often very tall grasses. Leaves narrow, flat. Spikelets 

 minute, awnless, 1-flowered, all similar, usually 2-nate (1 sessile, the 

 other pedicellate), 2-sexual, articulate at the base, disposed in large silky 

 much and densely branched panicles with spreading, at length erect, 

 articulate capillary, usually fragile branches ; sessile spikelets deciduous 

 with the contiguous joint of the rhachis and pedicel ; callus bearded with 

 very long hairs. Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume about equal to the 

 upper, obloug or lanceolate, dorsally flat or convex, with incurved or 

 inflexed margins, 1-2-nerved at each flexure, keels not winged nor 

 scaberulous ; upper invol. -ghune concave, dorsally rounded or obscurely 

 keeled, 1-5-nerved ; lower floral glumes hyaline, oblong; upper floral 



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