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geniculate about tlie middle ; the lower half brown, the upper white. 

 Anthers jV in. long. Pedicellate sjnkelets not awned ; pedicels gin. 

 long with ciliate margins. Glumes 3 ; lower invol. -glume ^ in. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5-nerved. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 170 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438. Andropogon fiachyarthrus. 

 Hack. Monogr. Andropog. in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 6 (1889) p. 449.— 

 Plowers : Dec. Vern. Baerki ; Gondval. 



There is an excellent drawing of this grass in Icones Roxhurgliiance in 

 Herb. Kew. No. 2020. 



Dfccan : Khandesli, LtV/off. Kanaka: Karwar, i/s/wa. Gujarat: Sur at, Bed .:eli I, 

 Woodroiv. — DisTRiB. India (Nepal, Eajputana, Central Provinces, W. Peninsula). 



3. Andropogon foveolatus, Del. Descrijj.de I' Egj/ pte (1812) Tp.lGO, 

 t. 8, fig. 2. ."Stems 1-2 ft. long, densely tufted, usually decumbent at 

 the base, then geniculately ascending, very slender, glabrous ; nodes 

 bearded. Leaves 3-6 byi^-j\j- in., linear, seaberulous beneath ; sheaths 

 shorter than the internodes, scabrous or glabrous, the basal sheaths 

 silky-villous ; ligule short, truncate, hyaline, ciliate. Racemes 1-1| in. 

 long, solitary ; peduncles capillary, erect, usually far exserted beyond 

 the slender spathe ; joints and pedicels slender, ciliate on 2 opposit(f 

 sides with long silky hairs, shorter than the sessile spikelets. Spikelels 

 i in. long (the sessile and pedicellate equal), oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 purplish ; callus small, shortly hairy at the base ; lower invol.-glume ^ in. 

 long, flat, lanceolate-oblong, subobtuse, with narrowly involute margins, 

 4-nerved, usually marked with a deep pit above the middle ; upper 

 invol.-glume equal to the lower, lanceolate, acute, obscurely 3-nerved ; 

 lower floral glume much shorter, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, nerveless ; 

 upper floral glume reduced to an awn ^-^ in. long, the column about 

 equalling the subulate portion. Anthers j^ in. long. Pedicellate spike- 

 lets', pedicels ^ in. long. Glumes 2; lower invol.-glume ^ in. long, 

 lanceolate, acute, with slightly incurved margins, the keels above acule- 

 ately scabrid, 5-nerved, pitted or not; upper invol.-glume equalling the 

 lower, linear-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 168 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1201.— 

 Flowers : Oct. Yern. Ohandel. 



Deccan: Poona, Cooke I, Woodrow, Jacquemont,4o4^l ; Khandesli, Lisboa. — Distrib. 

 Throughout the drier parts of India ; westwards to the Cape Verd Islands. 



4. Andropogon compressus, Rook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) 

 p. 172. A tall grass reacliing 3-4 ft. high ; stem as thick as a goose- 

 quill at the base, erect, sparingly branched, leafy ; nodes glabrous. 

 Leaves 12-18 by |-| in., linear, finely acuminate, flat, slightly seaberu- 

 lous on both surfaces and on the margins, more or less hairy towards 

 the base ; sheaths strongly compressed and acutely keeled ; ligule 

 a glabrous membrane -^^ in. long. Panicles 4-5 in. long, of many 

 subcorymbosely arranged pale flexuous silky racemes 1-2 in. long; 

 joint ^ in. long, slender, with a central translucent line, ciliate on 

 2 opposite sides with long silky hairs. Sessile spikelets i in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate ; callus bearded with long hairs; lower invol.-glume ovate- 

 lanceolate, i in. long, villous on the back below the middle, truncate or 

 notched at the apex, with narrowly incurved margins and a hyaline tip, 

 5-7-nerved, not pitted ; upper invol.-glume ovate, acute, mucronulate, 



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