97. GRAMINE^. [18. AHDSOPoooy. 



Panicle 6-12''. Branches many whorled 

 naked below with a long slender termi- 

 nal spike. Spkts. muricate . . 10. sqnarrosus, L. 



Only apricus, intermedins, assimilis, and Bquarrosus are further 

 dealt with. 



4. A. apricus, Trin. 



A csespitose slender grass 3-6 ft. high branched above. 

 Branches with slender peduncles sheathed at the base and 

 bearing geminate reddish spikes 11-2" long with long awns. 

 Joints of spike and pedicel of ped. spkt. clothed with long 

 hairs below, expanded above into a funnel-shaped 2-toothed 

 limb. 



A very common and abundant grass in poorly stocked forest. Fls. Nov. 



Culms yellow. Cauline (eaves 10-2CT by £" thinly hairy on the ribs 

 above, often pubescent beneath, ligule short scarious truncate. 

 8e$sile spihelet, Gl. I f linear-oblong truncate 3-nerved en each side of 

 the infolded centre, margins strongly inflexed ; II hyaline 1-nerved with 

 fine awn |*j IV hyaline 2-cloft with an awn 1" long or more. Ped. ^pikelet 

 Gl. I flat 9-nerved 2-cuspidate usually with a scabrid awn i4"; IV finely 

 awned, with 3 st. and a 3-fid quadrate scale. 



6. A. intermedius, R> Br. Sudugan, M. 

 A very variable grass 3-7 ft. erect or with decumbent 

 base, and rootstock usually densely clothed with buds. .Nodes 

 (especially above ) nearly always with a dense ring of hairs, 

 and leaves with long hairs near the base or hairy. Panicle 

 usually small 2f-4'' but attaining 10" in some varieties, 

 branches slender usually opposite and decussate with a bolbous 

 base, spikes usually simple towards the end of the branches, 

 f-f long, joints fragile. Sessile spkt., callus shortly hairy, 

 Gl. I to'F na * °bl 0I1 g 5-7 -nerved often pitted, margins involute 

 with smooth or scabrous keels j II faintly 3-nerved keeled ; 

 III hyaline ; IV an awn s~§". 



A very common forest grass, sometimes Only 9 7 to 2 ft, on dry open 

 ground and up to 7 ft. in valleys. Fls. Nov.-Feby. 



The smaller varieties aro apparently annual. 



L. 1-2 ft, by §-|* broad usually keeled bblow, tips filiform, sheaths hairy 

 above, in one variety very loose and hairy throughout. Ligule very short 

 with long hairs. Panicle often red, rachis and branches glabrous but 



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