cxLnr. GRAMiNE^. 965 



glume \ ill. long, divided into 2 acute lobes ; palea as long as tlie glume ; 

 awu f-l| ii>. long, the column brown, twisted, geniculate above the 

 column, the upper part pale, scaberulous. Pedicellate spikelets smaller 

 tliau the sessile, awnless ; lower invol. -glume lanceolate, bicuspidate, 

 not furrowed, the margins recurved throughout, 7-uerved, the midri^b 

 slender, the lateral nerves green, approximate, close to the margin ; 

 upper invol. -glume not awned ; lower floral glume as in the sessile 

 spikelets ; upper floral glume acute, not awned. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 137 ; 

 Woodrow, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437.— Plowers : Oct. 



Deccan : Sattara, Lisboa; Malsiras (Sholapur taluka), Lishoa. — Distrib. India' 

 (Central Provinces, W. Peninsula). 



25. POGONATHERUM, Beauv. 



Delicate perennial grasses ; stems leafy upwards, branching. Leaves 

 narrow, suberect. Racemes solitary on long flexuous peduncles, plumose 

 from the slender awns ; rhachis at length fragile ; internodes short. 

 JSpikelets very small, subterete, 2-nate, 1-2-flowered, a sessile 2-sexual, 

 and a pedicellate male or neuter (rarely 2-sexual) ; callus bearded with 

 fine hairs. Grlumes 3 or 4, all membranous and hyaline, obscurely 

 nerved or nerveless ; lower invol. -glume oblong, truncate, dorsally 

 rounded ; upper iuvol.-glume longer, ovate, keeled, 2-fid and awned in 

 the sinus, the awn much longer than the spikelet, slightly twisted ; lower 

 floral glume nearly as long as the upper invol. -glume, not awned, usually 

 absent from the pedicellate spikelet ; upper floral glume about k as long 

 as the upper invol. -glume, 2-tid and awned in the sinus like the upper 

 iuvol.-glume; palea broadly oblong, not keeled. Lodicules obsolete. 

 Stamens 1 or 2 ; anthers long. Ovary narrow; styles short, free; 

 stigmas very long, exserted at the top of the spikelet. Grain narrow, 

 oblong, free. — Disteib. India, Afghanistan, China, Malaya, New 

 Hebrides. 



1. Pogonatherum crinitum, Kunth, Enum. PI. v. 1 (1833) p. 478. 

 Stems 6-12 in. long, densely tufted. Leaves 1-3 by jo~i ^^•■> Hiiear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, more or less hairy ; sheaths lax, glabrous with a 

 hairy mouth ; ligule of long hairs. Racemes terminating the branches 

 of the stem, -1-1 in. long; rhachis slender; internodes short, ciliate ; 

 tips thickened, truncate. Spikelets y 2~tV ^^- ^^^^S' usually monandrous ; 

 hairs of callus longer than the spikelets. Glumes nerveless, hyaline ; 

 lower invol.-glume oblong, dorsally rounded, ciliate at the rounded or 

 refuse tip ; upper invol.-glume longer than the lower, ovate, keeled,. 

 2-lid, the lobes ciliolate, awned in the sinus with a long capillary awn 

 i in. long or more; lower floral glume linear, nearly as long as the 

 ujtpt'r invol.-glume, not awned, sometimes absent ; upper floral glume 

 eleft to the middle into 2 ciliolate lobes ; awn straight or recurved, ^ in., 

 long. Fl. B. L V. 7, p. 141 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 5, p. 222 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1197. 

 Por/onatherum snccJiaroidcum var. a. genuiaum. Hack. Monog. Andropog. 

 in HO. Monog. Phan. v. 6 (1889) p. 193.— Flowers : July. 



Kanaka: Sauipkand (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — Distrib. More or less throughout 

 India; Afghanistan, China, Malaya, New Hebrides. 



