9,s0 C'CIA'IT. GliAMIXE.E. 



erect luur.s. Sessile splLelets I in. long, oblong-lanceolate, acute ; callus 

 small, densely bearded with hairs nearly ^ as long as the spikelet ; 

 lower invol.-gluine ^ in. long, ovate-oblong, flat, truncate, often 

 emarginate, shining, o-7-nerved, not pitted, very sparsely silky-hairy 

 below the middle, margins very narrowly incurved, keels slender; upper 

 invol.-flume reaching i in. long, ovate-oblong, acute, finely uiucronate. 



nn awn reituuiug g lu. ^^n^, i"o huluv^uwi aiL^nuxj ...iitiv^^vj. ^uov^ 1 6 ."" 

 lono- representing the glume. Pedicellate spilcelels as long as the sessile, 

 oblong-lanceolate ; lower invol.-glume many-nerved ; upper invol.-glume 

 5-nerved ; lower floral glume as long as the sessile^ upper floral 

 glume 0. Woodr. in Joum. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438.— Flowers : 

 Sept. 



Balzell without locality in Herlj. Kew.! Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow.—Di&i'iufi. 

 Ii.dia (W. PeniusLila), apparently endemic. 



9. Andropo^on concanensis, Hooh. f. Fl. B. T. v. 7 (1896) 



p. 174. Perennial ; stems many from a nodose rootstock, 20-24 in. 



high, firm, smooth, terete, leafy; nodes glabrous. Leaves 8-10 by 



_i__i in., linear, finely acuminate, smooth on both surfaces ; sheaths 



smooth, terete; ligule short, membranous, truncate, glabrous. Eacemes 



5-8, loosely fasciculate, 2-2f in. long, slender, flexuous, pale ; rhachis 



and proper peduncles filiform, glabrous, the latter |-| in. long, with 



slightly bearded axils ; joints and pedicels yL in. long, compressed, 



hardlv'grooved and not translucent in the centre, the sides not thickened, 



ciliate with long silky hairs. Sessile spileUts less than i in. long, ovate- 



lanceelate, narrowly truncate; callus bearded; lower invol.-glume 



membranous, with iiicurved margins, glabrous, not pitted on the back, 



keels ciliate with short bristles, 7-9-nerved ; upper invol.-gknne as long 



as the lower, lanceolate, acuminate, ending in a fine point which just 



appears above the tip of tlie lower glume, faintly 3-nerved ; lower 



floral glume much shorter than the others, oblong, obtuse, nerveless ; 



upper floral glume a capillary yellowisli awn reaching | in. long with a 



sbghtly dilated base y^ ^"' '°"S- Pedicellate spilcelets narrower tliaia 



the sessile; lower invol.-glume 9-nerved ; upper invol.- and lower 



floral glume as in the sessile spikelets ; upper floral glume small, oblong, 



often unequally 2-fid, ciliate, nerveless. AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Kat. 



V. 13(1901) p. 438.— Flowers: Oct. 



KoNiiAN : Matlicran, Wooclrow ! 



10. Andropogon intermedius, Br. Prodr, (1810) p. 202, 

 rerennial ; f^tcm 2-4 ft. higii or more, stout, erect or geniculalely 

 ascending, slightly flattened on one side, simple or sparingly branched, 

 leafy up\\ards ; nodes usually hairy. Leaves 6-18 by j-} in., narrowly 

 linear, ^laucous, finely acuminate with capillary tip, sid)coriaceous, 

 glabrous or ciliate towards the base ; sheaths terete, glabrous ; ligule a 

 narrow truncate membrane .^j^ in. long, ciliate or not. Panicle 3-6 in, 

 long, erect, pyramidal, thyrsiform or subcorymbose ; rhachis glabrous ; 

 branches i-H in. long; racemes sleiider, fragile, pale-green or purj)Iish, 

 with a capillary rhachis; joints of the rhachis shorter than the 

 ej)ikelets with a translucent centre, ciliate. Sessile S2iikelds ^-^ in. 



