97 G CILVII. GRAMIXE.I. 



1. Andropogon Iwarancusa, Jones, in Asiatic Research, v. 4 (1795) 

 p. 109. Whole plant of a pale often glaucous green, perennial ; sterns 

 up to 6 ft. high, tufted on an annulate creeping I'ootstock ; roots aro- 

 matic. Leaves flat or convolute, 6 in. to 2 ft. by jQ-g in., linear with 

 capillary tips, rigid or flexuous, glabrous or seaberulous, midrib slender ; 

 sheaths glabrous, the lower deciduous, splitting into flat often tortuous 

 laminjc ; ligule shortly oblong, membranous, ciliolate. Panicle very 

 variable ; branches distant or crowded, simple or branched ; proper 

 spathes ^-| in. long, longer than the peduncles of the racemes, narrowly 

 lanceolate ; racemes |-| in. long, unequal ; joints of rhacliis and pedicels 

 of upper spikelets subclavate, densely villous with long hairs, the liairs 

 more or less concealing the sessile spikelet, the tops cupular, toothed ; 

 spikelets 3 or 4 pairs. Sefsile sj^ikelits reaching | in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, acute ; callus acute, densely bearded with long whitish hairs. 

 Glumes 4 ; lower invol. -glume i in. long, linear-lanceolate, thin, flat, 

 glabrons, nerveless, keels seaberulous ; upper invol. -glume ^ in. long, 

 ovate, acute, cymbiform, thinly membranous, 3-nerved ; lower floral 

 glume ^ in. long, linear-oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 2-nerved ; upper floral 

 glume ^\-, in. long, 2-fid, hyaline, ciliate; awn from the sinus 3 in. long, 

 slender, glabrous. Pedicellate spil'elets scarcely longer than tiie sessile, 

 narrowly lanceolate, purplish; pedicels yV ^"* '^"o 5 lower invol. -glume 

 7-9-uerved, glabrous, with seaberulous keels ; upper invol. -glume ovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, 3-nerved, ciliate ; lower floral glume oblong, obtuse, 

 hyaline, ciliate. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 203 ; Grab. Cat. p. 238 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 301 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438; Prain, Beng. 

 PI. p. 1200. Andropogon laniger, Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 244 

 (partly). — Plowers : Dec. 



Gujarat : Ahmedabad, Balzell ^- Gibson. Sind : Karachi, Dalzell ^- Gibson, 

 Woodrow. 



Var. laniger. Hook. f. PL B. I. v. 7 (1890) p. 203. Stem sliort, sub- 

 simple ; leaves junciform ; lower sheaths hardened, persistent ; panicle 

 narrow, subsimple. Andropogon laniger, Desf. Fl. Atlant. v. 2 (1800) 

 p. 379. — Flowers: July-Dec. 



Sind : widely, Woodrow, Stocks, 816 ! ; Jemadar ka Laiida near Karachi, StocJcsl 



2. Andropogon pumilus, Roxh. Fl. Ind. v. 1 (1832) p. 273. 

 Annual ; stem 6-18 in. high, slender, suberect or geniculate and decum- 

 bent below, quite glabrous; nodes glabrous. Leaves 3-5 by J^—^^ in., 

 linear, finely acuminate, glabrous ; sheaths compressed, keeled, quite 

 glabrous ; ligule short, truncate, membranous, glabrous. Kacemes |-| in. 

 long, in nearly equal pairs on a very slender peduncle which arises from 

 a narrow flattened glabrous spathe :|-] in. long; joints j\y in. long, very 

 slightly clavate (almost linear), flattened, glabrous and often red on the 

 back, with densely ciliate margins and a cup-shaped 2-3-toothed apex. 

 fSessile spikelets reaching ^ in. long; callus glabrous. Glumes 4; lower 

 invol. -glume 1 in. long, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, membranous, 

 2-cuspidate, the keels strong, running into the slender awns about 

 5'^ in. long ; upper invol. -glume as long as the lower, narrowly lanceo- 

 late, mucronate, coriaceous, 1-nerved; lower floral glume hardly g in. 

 long, linear-lanceolate, subacute, hyaline ; upper floral glume y^ in. 

 long, narrowly linear, hyaline, cleft at the apex into 2 subulate lobes 

 with an awn in the sinus between them ; awn reaching ^ in. long, 



