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a little shorter than the invol. -glumes, oblong, acute, nerveless, glabrous, 

 epaleate ; upper floral glume much shorter than the lower, oblong, 

 obtuse, nerveless. Pedicellate spiJcelets : pedicels ^ in. long, ciliate on 

 one margin. Spikelets linear-subulate. Lower iuvol.-glume | in. long, 

 narrowed almost from the base into a long narrow linear ciliate beak ; 

 upper invol. -glume ^ in. long, ovate-lanceolate, concave, membranous, 

 narrowed into a short scabrid purplish awn. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 161 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437. 



GujARix: Eajkot (Kathiawar), Woodrow. Sind : Woodrow. — Distrib. India 

 (Upper Gangetic plain, W. Peninsula) ; Arabia, Abyssinia, Cape de Verd Islands. 



2. Ulionurus hirsutus, Munro, ex Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 v. 19 (1881) p. 68. Perennial; rootstock woody, branched; stems 

 1-2 ft., ascending from a branching base, stout, smooth, rigid, more or 

 less scabrid or pubescent; nodes pubescent. Leaves 3-6 by ^^-^ in., 

 linear, finely acuminate: sheaths terete, glabrous or nearly so, the 

 upper sheaths shorter than the internodes, glaucous or nearly white. 

 Raceme solitary, stout, 2-4 in. long, silvery silky all over; joints 

 shorter than the sessile spikelets, subclavate, densely villous on the back. 

 Sessile spil-elets at each node of the rhachis, solitary or 2-nate, imbricate, 

 reaching | in. long or more (including the beak), pale green. Glumes 4 ; 

 lower invol. -glume | in. long (including beak), coriaceous, 7-9-nerved, 

 the beak often as long as the body of the glume, deeply 2-fid, densely 

 silky-villous, the lobes divergent ; upper invol. -glume | in. long, 

 ovate, aristately acuminate, chartaceous, 3-5-nerved, the acumen ciliate 

 at the tip ; lower floral glume equalling the upper invol. -glume, 

 hyaline, ovate-oblong, acute, 3-nerved, paleate, the palea lanceolate, 

 acute, as long as the glume ; upper floral glume shorter, ovate, acute, 

 glabrous, with incurved margins. Ptdicellate spil:elets rather shorter 

 than the sessile ones ; pedicels about ^ in. long, shorter than the joints, 

 flattened, subclavate, hairy on the back and with ciliate margins. Fl. 

 B. I. v. 7, p. 162 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 5, p. 466 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 437 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 242. 

 Kotthoellia hirsuta, Vahl, Symb. part 1 (1790) p. 11 ; Hack. Monog. 

 Andropog. in DC. Monog. Phan. v. 6 (1889) p. 311. 



Balzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Sind : Stocks, 626 !— Distrib, India 

 (Panjab, Eajputana, W. Peninsula) ; westwards to N. Africa. 



31. ANDROPOGON, Linn. 



Perennial or annual grasses of very varied habit. Leaves usually 

 narrow. Spikelets similar or heteroraorphous, 2-nate (one sessile, the 

 other pedicellate), on the fragile rhachis of solitary, 2-nate, digitate fasci- 

 culate or paniculate racemes. Sessile spikelets 1-flowered ; callus long 

 or short. Glumes 3 or 4 ; lower invol. -glume coriaceous or chartaceous, 

 2-keeled, muticous ; upper invol. -glume usually thinner with a median 

 keel, rarely awned ; lower floral glume hyaline or 0, neuter ; upper 

 floral glume hyaline, usually awned, often reduced to the dilated base of 

 the awn, 2-sexual ; palea various or 0. Lodicules 2, cuneate. Stamens 

 3-1. Stigmas laterally exserted. Grain various. Pedicellate spikelets 

 usually smaller than the sessile. — Distrib. Species more than 200, in the 

 warm parts of the world. 



