990 CXLVII. GRAMIXE.i:. 



limceolale, acuminate, many-nerved ; upper invol.-glume rather shorter 

 than the lower, hnear-lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, charfaceous, 

 3-nerved ; lower floral glume shorter than the invol. -glumes, lanceolate, 

 acumhiate, ciliate; upper floral glume narrov\ly oblauceolate, 1-nerved, 

 oiUate near the apex. Loiver spilcelets |-|- in. long, neuter or male, 

 like the pedicellate ones. Fl. B. I. v. T^p. 200; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 5, 

 p. 239 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p. 438.— 

 Flowers : Dec. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! Deccan : Mawal (Poena districts), Woodrow. — Distrib. India 

 (Ceutral Provinces, Birina, W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malaya, Australia. 



27. Andropogon Ritchiei, Rool:f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 201. 

 Stems stout, erect, rigid, 4 ft. and more high. Leaves 18 by | in., 

 linear from a narrow base, bluntly acuminate, flat, rigid, shortly 

 hairjr on both sides with bulbous-based hairs, the margins spinulosely 

 serrulate ; sheaths glabrous ; ligule \ in. long, membranous, divided 

 almost to the base into numerous narrow acute segments. Racemes 

 1-2 in. long, green, hispid, the lower 1-2 pairs of spikelets homogamous. 

 Sessile spikelets rather more than | in. long ; callus nearly -^ in. long, 

 densely bristly with brown hairs ; lower invol.-glume broadly ovate 

 when opened out, bluntly acuminate, truncate, hairy on the back, 

 the margins narrowly incurved, keels bristly, not channelled, dorsally 

 obscurely nerved ; upper invol.-glume linear-oblong with rounded and 

 shortly apiculate apex, 3-nerved, with a coriaceous hispid centre and 

 membranous margins ; lower floral glume ^ in. long, narrowly linear, 

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

 acute not dilated base of the awn ; awn more than 1| in. long, tortuous, 

 with a dark brown more or less pubescent column, the upper part 

 very slender. Pedicellate spikelets g in. long; pedicels short, glabrous ; 

 lower invol.-glume lanceolate, acute, the margins equally winged and 

 infolded, the keels with a row of long tubercular-based golden-yellow 

 bristles ; upper invol.-glume as long, lanceolate, 3-nerved ; lower 

 floral glume | in. long, narrowly oblauceolate, hyaline ; upper floral 

 glume shorter, narrowly linear, acute. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 13 (1901) p. 438.— Flowers : Oct.-Dec. 



Deccan: hills near Poona, Woodrow. S. M. Country : Bdgauni, Bitchiel — 

 DisTRiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



28. Andropogon contortus, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1045. 

 Perennial ; stems 1-5 ft. long, densely tufted, erect or decumbent 

 below, slender, leafy chiefly at the base, simple or subfastigiately 

 branched, compressed towards tlie base. Leaves 6-12 by -J^-i in., 

 linear, often shortly and abruptly (rarely long)-acuminate, flat, sub- 

 erect, rigid, often sparingly ciliate towards the base, sometimes with 

 scattered bulbous-based hairs above, scaberulous below ; eheaths 

 compressed, keeled, glabrous, the mouth shortly auricled ; ligule short, 

 truncate, cilioJate. Racemes 1^-3 in. long; internodes very short, 

 the lower inarticulate ; spikelets closely imbricating, subsecund, the 

 lower 2-6 or more sessile, awnless, male or neuter, tlie upper sessile 

 spikelets narrow, long-awned, female. Sessile (female) spilelcts \ in. 

 long; callus long, acute, pungent, bearded with reddish-brown hairs ; 

 lower invol. -ghnne linear-oblong, truncate, dark brown, many- 



