17. Chbysopogo*.] 97. GBAMINEM. [18. Andbopogoh. 



A weed of damp and heavily grazed lands, and a pest from the small 

 awns sticking to the clothes. The leaves which lie olose to the ground 

 escape to a large extent the lips of cattle. 



Fls. Aug. -Nov. 



2. C- lancearius, Stapf. Syn. Andropogon lancearius, 

 Hook.f, Korpo dumbu, K. 



A large coarse grass -4-6 ft. high with very leaf y stems 

 minutely downy above, leaves 18"-2 ft. by 1-1|" broad (J- 

 !* F.B.I,) with minutely spinnlose cutting edges, and 

 oblong panicles 8-12" long with whorls of numerous capil- 

 lary sub erect branches 2-4" long which exhibit the charac- 

 teristic clavate oblique brown-bearded tips on the fall of the 

 spikelets. Gl. I of pedicelled spikelet with a slender awn 

 over |* ; Gl. IV of sessile spikelet with an awn l|-lf" 

 silky. 



Usually in shady positions on rocky slopes. Fls. Sept. Ft. Oct.-Nov. 



L. glabrous minutely acaherulous above with very broad white mid-ribi, 

 sheaths compressed, ligule of short hairs. Spikelets %' long very narrow ; 

 Sessile with long (short FB. 1.) callus pungent with a barb of brown 

 hairs, Gl. I convex with ciliate margins ; II broadest but strongly late- 

 rally compressed with a mid-rib and hyaline margins, brown hairy on the 

 upper half and with a slender hispid awn ■§'' ; III sparsely silky. Pedir 

 celled-spikelet-with compressed pedicel about half as long as the spikelet, 

 8ubterete ; Gl. I 5-7-nerved convolute with awn over £'' ; II hyaline 

 3-nerved; III nerveless sparsely villous j IV similar but narrower. St. 3. 

 A good fodder. 



3. C. Gryllus, Trin. 



A stout tufted grass with leaves up to \'' broad, glabrous or hirsute 

 with serrulate margins, panicle :-8'' with branches 2-4'', their axils 

 bearded and with 2-4 spikelets $-%" long. Awn of Gl. IV of sessile 

 spikelet from minute to 1£" (F.B.I ) and Gl. I of pedicelled spikelet 

 acuminate or aristulate, the pedicel glabrous or only thinly ciliate. 



Jaepur, Wood. 



Two other large grasses of this genua called Andropogon monticola. 

 Schult Var. Trinii of F.B.I. , and A. polyphyllus, Back of F.B.I, occur 

 in Chota Nagpur (vide Prain, " Bengal Plants ). The former varies from 

 li-4ft.high. 



18. Andropogon, L. 



Habit various. Pairs of spikelets (sessile and pedicelled 

 dissimilar) similar to one another in many- rarely few-jointed 



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