cxLTiT. Ga.vMixE.i;, 989 



Grah. Caf. p. 238; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 301.— Plowers : Oct. Vern. 



Mdrvel. 



KoNKAN : Lhhoa ! Deccan : Dalzell ^- Gibson ; Poona, Woodrow, 122 ! Sind : 

 Stocks, 646 ! — DisTRiB. Throughout India ; Tropical Africa, China, Australia, Pacific 

 Islauds. 



25. Andropogon polystachyos, lioxb. FL Lid. v. 1 (1832) p. 261. 

 A dwarf erect grass 6-10 in. high ; stems slender, leafy above, 

 corymbosely branched. Leaves 2-4 by ttV" tV ''^•' ^'^® lower flat, the 

 upper convolute, erect, hairy on both sides with long slender hairs, 

 the margins thickened ; sheaths hairy ; ligule a short ciliate membrane. 

 Racemes solitary, g-l in. long, on very slender peduncles 2-4 in. long, 

 with a very slender sheath and a small leaf about the middle, the 5 

 or 6 lower pairs of spikelets neuter ; joints yL in. long, terete. Sessile 

 female sjnl-elets dark brown, i in. long; callus bearded on one side with 

 brown hairs ; lower invol. -glume oblong when opened out, obtuse, 

 with membranous tip and infolded margins, 7-9-nerved, pubescent 

 on the back ; upper invol. -glume linear-oblong with a coriaceous 

 centre and broad hyaline margins ; lower floral glume shorter, oblong, 

 ciliate ; upper floral glume represented by the acute base of the awn ; 

 awn l|-2 in. long, hairy. Pedicellate spilcelets i in. long; pedicels 

 -^ in. long, glabrous ; lower invol.-glume with a coriaceous many- 

 nerved centre and broad h^-aline wings ; upper invol.-glume lanceolate, 

 ciliate, 5-nerved. Neuter spil-elets : lower invol.-glume like the 

 pedicellate but broader, 2-toothed at the tip. El. B. I. v. 7, p. 202 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 301; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) 

 p. 438. — Flowers : Nov. 



Deccan: Khandala, Woodrow, Mahableshwar, western side of the hill, Dalzell >$• 

 Gibson. — DibTRiB. Peninsula of India. 



A rare grass ; there is but 1 sheet altogether in Herb. Kew. from Wight's 

 Herbarium. 



26. Andropogon triticeus, R. Br. Prod. (1810) p. 201. Peren- 

 nial ; roots of very stout tortuous fibres ; stem 4-8 ft. high, as thick 

 as a swan's quill below, hard, smooth, polished, leafy, simple or 

 branched below. Leaves 1-2 ft. by |-| in., narrowly linear, acuminate, 

 glaucous, sparsely hairy, margins scabrous ; sheaths compressed, keeled, 

 smooth ; ligule a rounded scarcely ciliolate membrane. Eacemes 

 3-6 in. long ; rhachis iraarticulate except the 4-6 upper nodes, 

 glabrous ; spikelets very many, all, except the few terminal, 

 closely imbricating, subsecund, awnless, male or neuter with a short 

 glabrous callus. Upper sessile spikelets loiig-awned, 1 in. long ; callus 

 long, acute, densely bearded with dark brown hairs ; lower invol- 

 glume linear-oblong, subterete, rigidly coriaceous, with an obtuse 

 rounded membranous ciliolate tip, dorsally deeply grooved, the margins 

 involute, not winged ; upper invol.-glume shghtly longer than the 

 lower, linear, subterete, rigidly coriaceous, scaberulous, with pale 

 sigmoidly incurved chartaceous margins, obtuse, with membranous 

 truncate or minutely 3-tootlied tip ; lower floral glume short, oblong, 

 truncate, hyaline, nerveless ; upper floral glume represented by the 

 flattened white base of the awn ; awn very stout, hirsute, 2-3 in. long. 

 Uppier jJ^diceUate sjnhelets reaching |- in. long, neuter; pedicels very 

 short, subclavate, glabrous ; lower invol.-glume more or less t\^iste{i, 



