CXr.VII. GHAMINE.K. ^St' 



]on;if ; callus very short, bearded; lower in vol. -glume thin, oblongs 

 obtuse or truncate, 4-9-iierved, margins narrowly incurved, rigidly 

 ciliate above the middle, not pitted ; upper invol.-ghune as long as the 

 lower, oblong-lanceolate, acute, faintly 3-nerved, smooth ; lower floral 

 glume much shorter, oblong, obtuse, nerveless ; upper floral glume 

 represented by the hyaline slightly flattened base of the awn ; palea ; 

 awn reaching j^ in. long. Pedicellate spikehts linear-oblong or lanceolate, 

 narrower than the sessile ; pedicel ^ in. long with a translucent centre,, 

 usually ciliate. Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 175; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 5, p. 230; 

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

 p. 1201. — Flowers: Dec. 



Deccan : Poona, Wuodrow; Mawal, Wooch'ow. — -DrsTniB. More or less tbroughoiit 

 India; Ceylon, China, Malaya, Pacific Islands, Africa. 



11. Andropogon odoratus, Daa. Lisboa, in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 v. 4 (18y9) p. 123. Aromatic; stem erect, 3-4 ft. high, as thick as 

 a swan's quill at the base, sometimes branching below, leafy ; nodes 

 bearded. Leaves 12-24 by ^^ in., lineai'-lanceolate, flat, acuminate, 

 scaberulous on both surfaces and on the margins, bright green, with 

 strong nerves ; sheaths long, glabrous, smooth, compressed, the upper 

 sheathing the base of the mfl-orescence ; ligule small, membranous, 

 truncate. Kacemes numerous, purplish, silky, suberect, slender, flexuous, 

 densely fascicled, pedicellate, crowded at the end of a long peduncle and 

 forming a dense panicle 2-4 in. long; joints and pedicels flattened, with 

 a translucent centre, silky-hairy, the joints Jg- in. long, the pedicels 

 rather longer. Sessile spikelets purplish, ^ in. long, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute ; callus small, bearded with silky hairs; lower invol. -glume thin, 

 oblong-lanceolate, truncate, 7-uerved, softly hairy below the middle, 

 rarely pitted; upper invol. -glume very little longer than the lower and 

 broader, thinly membranous, keeled ; lower floral glume hyaline^ oblongs 

 lanceolate, shorter than the upper invol.-glume, nerveless ; awn |-| in. 

 long, slightly dilated towards the base. Pedicellate spihtleis as long as 

 or slightly longer than the sessile ; lower invol.-glume narrow, many- 

 nerved, dorsally glabrous; upper invol.-glume 3-iierved, ciliate ; lower 

 floral glume shorter, oblong, obtuse, nerveless. The compressed sheaths, 

 panicled racemes, villous lower invol.-glume of the sessile spikelets, and 

 aroma seem to distinguish this from Andropogon Kuntzeanus, which it 

 sti'ongly resembles in a dry state {Booker). Fl. B. I. v. 7, p. 177'; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (19ul) p. 438.— Flowers : Oct. 

 A^ERN. Gavat-vedi. 



KoNKAN : Khardi (Thana districts), Mrs. Lishoa. Deccan : Lanoli, 3Irs. Lisboa ; 

 MAwal (Poona districts), Woodrow; Khandesb, iciVwa. — Disteiis. India (W. Peniu- 

 suia), apparently endemic. 



12. Andropogon assimilis, Sieud. inZoll. Sjst. Verz. (1854) p 58 ; 

 Bya. Gram. (1855) p. 397. kSuffruticose, fastigiately branched from a 

 decumbent base ; stems 1-2 ft. long, hard, smooth and polished, as 

 thick as a goose-quUl at the base, often proliferously branched ; nodes 

 glabrous or rarely bearded. Leaves 3-8 by jiy~'4 ^"-j hnear-lanceolate, 

 finely acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, with a strong white miduerve ; 

 sheaths tisually glabrous, except at the mouth which is sometimes 

 bearded, the tipper sheaths appressed, the lower open, often divaricate ; 



