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spiuulosely ciliate ; upper invol.-gluQie lanceolate, acuminate, finely 

 pointed at the tip, the point slightly projecting heyond the lower glume, 

 3-5-nerved, membranous, glabrous ; lower floral glume -^^ in. long, 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, nerveless, glabrous ; upper floral glume reduced 

 to a slender awn reaching nearly | in. long, geniculate about the 

 middle, the lower half brown, the upper yellowish-white, with a narrow 

 linear hyaline flattened base -^-^ in. long which represents the glume ; 

 palea 0. Pedicellate spikdets like the sessile but narrower, not avvned; 

 lower invol. -glume acute, very rarely pitted, 7-13-nerved, ciliate ; upper 

 invol.-glume ovate-lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, with incurved margins ; 

 lower floral glume linear-oblong, obtuse, hyaline, glabrous. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 7, p. 173 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 230 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 438; Prain, Beng. PI. p. 1201; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. v. 1, p. 249. — Flowers : Sept. Lisboa (Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 

 (1901) p. 202) says that the inflorescence of the grass is scented. 



Deccan : Poona, CooJce ! ; Lanoli, Woodrovj ; Sattara, Lii<hoa ; Sholapur, Lisboa. 

 Kanara: Lisboa. — Distrib. More or less throughout India in the drier parts; Ceylon, 

 Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia, Sicily. 



7. Andropogon Kuntzeanus, Haclc. Monog. Andropog. in DC. 

 Monog. Fhan. v. 6 (18S9) p. 478, A tall grass 3-5 ft. high; stems 

 ascending, as thick as a goose-quill below, with 2-3 slender flowering 

 branches above, terete, small ; nodes densely bearded. Leaves narrowly 

 linear, 12 by l-| in., glabrous, glaucous, smooth, with scaberulous 

 margins, the upper cauline leaves short, rigid. Eacemes 12-15, 

 corymbosely fasciculate, slender, silky, purplish ; proper peduncles 

 4-g in. long, slender, glabrous ; joints and pedicels -^-^ in. long, with a 

 translucent centre, slender, densely ciliate with very long erect hairs. 

 Sessile spilcelets ^ in. long, linear-lanceolate ; callus sparsely bearded at 

 the base with very long hairs ; lower invol.-glume ovate-lanceolate, 

 thin, glabrous, usually pitted, 7-9-nerved, 2-toothed at the apex, the 

 teeth about -r^ in. long ; upper invol.-glume as long as the lower, 

 lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, ciliate; lower floral glume 1 in. long, 

 linear-lanceolate, glabrous, hyaline ; awn ^ in. long, the basal slightly 

 flattened portion -^ in. long. Pedicellate spikelets narrower than thii 

 sessile, male ; lower invol.-glume 9-11-nerved, tip entire ; upper invol.- 

 glume 5-nerved, conspicuously ciliate ; lower floral glume linear-oblong, 

 hyaline, ciliate ; upper floral glume small, narrowly linear or 0. Y\. B. 1. 

 vi 7, p. 175; Woodr. in Journ.' Bomb. Nat. v." 13 (1901) p. 438.— 

 Flowers : Oct. 



Konkan: Stocks'. Deccan : Woodrow, 1531; Mawal, Woodrorv. — Distrib. India 

 (Central Provinces, W. Peninsula). 



8. Andropogon ensiformis, Hoolc f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 175. 

 Stems 2 ft. and upwards, densely tufted, stout, compressed, clothed 

 with equitant leaf-sheaths; nodes glabrous. Leaves 8-10 by ^-| in., 

 erect, strict, rigid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, strongly nerved, glabrous 

 or sparsely hairy, tips acicular, margins and both surfaces scaberulous ; 

 sheaths smooth, compressed, the lower equitant; ligule short, scarmus. 

 Eacemes |-| in. long, in an erect narrow thyrsus 3 in. long, palo 

 purplish ; proper peduncles ^\ in. long ; joints and pedicels -^ in. 

 long, verv slender, flat, with a translucent channel, ciliate with long 



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