cxLVii. GRA:iiixE.T:. 987 



side with long bilky hairs which equal or exceed the pedicels ; lowest 

 pedicels A'ery short, glabrous, the others -^^ in. long, ciliate ou one side 

 with long silky hairs, dilated into an oblique sac-like mouth above, and 

 produced into a projecting flat horn. Spikelets closely imbricate, 

 straw-colored, searious. /Sessile spikelets 2-sexual (except the lowest 

 which is very often neuter) ; lower invol.-glume ^ in. long, oblong 

 or elliptic-oblong, acute, or shortly bifid, or sublacerate at the apex, 

 the margins narrowly infolded, rigid, the keels deeply winged with 

 subequal searious wings about -^^ in, deep and more or less toothed 

 on the margins, 7-9-nerved between the keels, the keel-nerves running 

 into the points of the wings ; upper invol.-glume shorter than the 

 lower, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, 3-nerved, chartaceous, 

 margins narrowly incurved, keels glabrous ; lower floral glume ^ in. 

 long, oblong, obtuse, hyaline, nerveless, glabrous ; upper floral glume 

 reduced to the white flattened lanceolate base of the awn ; awn -I in. 

 long, the column much twisted. Pedicellate spikelets longer than the 

 sessile, obliquely lanceolate ; lower invol.-glume nearly g in. long, 

 acute, unequally wdnged, many-nerved ; upper invol.-glume -^ by jL. in., 

 lanceolate, acute, 5-nerved, chartaceous; lower floral glume -l- in. long, 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline ; upper floral glume y^,- in. long, oblong, obtuse, 

 hyaline. Anthers ^V i^- long. Grain ^ in. long, oblong, compressed. 

 The plant does not agree with Hackel's subgenus Dlchantliiam very 

 satisfactorily, but it is the only subgenus into which it will flt at all. 



Deccan : Sakar-pathai' hill near Lanoli, Woodrowl 



22. Andropogon armatus, Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 197. 

 Annual, erect ; stems 12-18 iu. long, tufted, slender, simple or branched 

 above, glabrous and shiniiig ; nodes bearded. Leaves 4-6 by ^-| in., 

 linear, copiously hairy ou both surfaces and with long bulbous-based 

 hail's at the base ; sheaths lax, glabrous except on the upper margins 

 where they are more or less ciliate, the upper sheaths pale spathiform ; 

 ligule 0. Eacemes g-l| in. long, subdigitate, 2-5, flexuous ; lowest 

 pair of spikelets male ; peduncles -^-^ in. long, capillary, with Avhorls 

 of long white hairs in their axils ; joints and ])edicels slender, not 

 grooved, terete, ciliate with silky hairs. Spikelets 10-20 pairs. Sessile 

 spikelets i in. long ; callus very short, bearded, with silky hairs ; lower 

 invol.-glume thin, pale, nerveless, silky below the middle, often with 

 a deep dorsal pit, margins narrowly incurved, keels ciliate ; upper 

 invol.-glume ovate, acute, nerveless, subchartaceous, silky-villous on the 

 back ; lower floral glume oblong or linear, obtuse, flat, hyaline, 

 nerveless ; upper floral glume represented by a slender awn 1 in. long 

 with an acute base. FeJicellate sjnkelets equalling the sessile but rather 

 narrower ; lower invol.-glume armed with spreading submarginal 

 bulbous-based bristles often ^ in. long or more, slightly convex, quite 

 smooth between the bristles, many-nerved, keels ciliate ; upper invol.- 

 glume lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, ciliate; louver floral glume oblong, 

 obtuse, eciliate; ujjper floral glume very narrow-. Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! — DisTUiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



23. Andropogon caricosus, Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2 (1763) p. 1480. 

 Stems erect or ascending from a creeping base, forming tufts at the 



