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.iL>. PSEUDANTHISTIRIA, Hook. f. 



Annual grasses. Leaves narrow. Panicle leafy ; branches slender, 

 filiform, each bearing a single raceme clothed by a proper spathe, the 

 racemes subumbellate, the umbel subtended bj' a common spathe. 

 Proper spathes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, keeled. 

 Spikelets within each proper spathe usually consisting of 1 sessile 

 2-sexual spikelet with 1 pedicellate male and a secund sessile 2-sexual 

 spikelet w itli 2 pedicellate males. Sessile 2-sexual spikelets with a short 

 callus ; lower invol. -glume chartaceous, truncate, with inflexed margins, 

 4-7-nerved, the nerves apparent only towards the apex; upper invol. - 

 glume equalling the lower, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, 3-nerved, mem- 

 branous ; lower floral glume small, quadrate ; upper floral glume 

 represented by tlie hyaline base of a long capillary geniculate awn. 

 Lodicules cuneate. Pedicellate male spikelets on slender pedicels : 

 lower invol.-glume thin, about 9-nerved, margins narrowly incurved; 

 upper invol.-glume 3-nerved ; lower floral glume very small, oblong. 

 Stamens 3; anthers linear. Styles short; stigmas short, exsertfd. 

 Grain small. — Distrib. India ; species 4. 



1. Pseudanthistiria hispida, ITook.f. Fl. B. I. v. 7 (1896) p. 219. 

 Annual; stem 1-2 ft. high, rather stout, erect, glabrous and polished; 

 nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-5 by ^-\ in., linear, finely acuminate, some- 

 times with a bristle-point, hairy on both surfaces with bulbous-based 

 hairs, more or less subspinulosely ciliate on the mai'gins, strongly 

 nerved ; sheaths hairy on the upper part with bulbous-based hairs, 

 usually glabrous below ; ligule a truncate glabrous membrane much 

 divided to the base into narrow segments, the tips minutely ciliolate. 

 Panicle elongate, simple; branches very slender, reaching 3 in. long, 

 often in pairs ; fascicles |- in. broad, copiously hirsute with bulbous- 

 based hairs; outer spathes l.| in. long or more; proper spathes much 

 longer than the racemes, all hirsute on the margins with strong bristles 

 from tubercular bases. Sessile spikel'ts ^ in. long ; callus sliortly 

 bearded ; lower invol.-glume ^ in. long, oblong, truncate at the mem- 

 bi'anous ciliolate apex, with narrowly infolded margins and obscure 

 nerves, glabrous ; upper invol.-glume as long as the lower, oblong, 

 obtuse, 3-nerved with hyaline margins; lower floral glume small, 

 quadrate ; upper floral glume represented by the very acute base of the 

 awn; awn 1-1| in. long. Pedicellate S2nkelels lancenlate, hairy ; pedicels 

 finely hairy. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 13 (1901) p, 439.— 

 Plowers : Oct.-Nov. Veiin. Polcalija. 



Dolzell without locality in Herb. Kew. ! Konkan : Sto<;fcs\\ Kalyan, Woodrow. 

 Deccan : Paticligani, Woodrow. S. M. Countkv : Louda, Waodroiv. — Distrih. India 

 (Central i'roviuces, W. Peuinsula). 



33. THEMEDA, Forsk. (1775). 

 ANTHISTiniA, Linn. F. (1779). 



Tall annual or perennial grasses. ]jeaves long, narrow. Spikelets 

 lieteromorphous, clustered on tlie articulate fragile rhachis ot" short 

 solitary racemes subtended by proper spathes and crowded in paniculate 

 fascicles; lowest 2 pairs of each raceme closely aji])roxinuite, male or 

 barren, awidess, sessile or subsessile, usually persistent, i'onuing a 



