64. Apocopis.] 139. GRAMIXE.E. 



1. A. Royleanus, Nees. 



Stem usually simple erect from a creeping rootstock, 1-2 ft. high 

 with short narrowly lanceolate leaves -5-2" (2-4", F.B.I.) long, 

 sheaths and blades with spreading hairs (softly hairy or glabrous, 

 F.B.I.). Spikes 1-2, concurrent, -5-1 -5" long. Spikelets usually 

 sessile onh^ distichously secund on the rusty- villous rhachis, joints 

 about half spkt. Spkts. -22" long (-16", F.B.I.) with short very 

 broad brown-bearded callus. G\. i adnate to callus at base, rather 

 shorter than ii, very broad (-1" wide above), dorsally convex beloAV 

 and margins at base somewhat broadly inflexed and partly embracing 

 ii, upper part expanded, tip truncate 2-mucronulate from the excurrent 

 lateral nerves, slightly denticulate between, 7 -nerved, 2 lateral each 

 side meeting at base of the mucro, others not reaching tip ; iv as 

 long, oblong, hyaline with a broad nerve or discoloration down the 

 centre ending in a minute mucro not longer than the two short lobes 

 of the obtuse ciliolate tip or {fide F.B.I.) awn very slender included, 

 or if exserted not twice the length of spikelet. 



Puvneah, Kurz ! Fl. Ma.y-Sept. 



liemarkable from the broad imbricate spikelets from between which the pedicel-^ 

 (if present) project and the densely hairy side of the spikes beinsc turned towards 

 one anotlier. Gl. ii keeled below, flat above ; iii verj^ broailly lane. -oblong obtuse 

 ciliolate convolute and its ])alea similar ; palea of iv Ijroadly oblong hyaline trun- 

 cate 'IS", microscopically ciliolate at tip. 



2. A. vaginatus. Hack. Syn. A. Wightii, Xees, var. vaginata, F.B.I. 

 Low and tufted with stems decumbent at base or tall and erect. 



Leaves 1-3" glabrous or hair}^, tapering both ends, about •! — 15" 

 broad in middle ; sheaths strongly nerved, hairy (in our specimens, 

 sometimes glabrous ?). Spikes -5-1 -5" long mostlj^ 2 together, exserted 

 or not from their spathiform sheaths, stout or slender. Spikelets 

 •lG-2" long alternately awned and awnless, both with a small barren 

 pedicel representing the abortive pedicelled spkt. Awn of awned 

 spikelets -75-1" long, hispidly hairy below, glume iv narrowly oblong 

 or linear entire, 1 -nerved as long as spikelet or, in the awnless spkts., 

 absent. 



Hazaribagh, CZr/rAre ! Fl. Oct. 



The Hazaribagh specimen is var. vaginata, J.I). II., with the spikes more or 

 less included in the long spathiform sheaths of the upper leaves, blade often 

 rudimentary. Gl. i densely brown-villous dorsally, broadly oblong, 7-nerved, 

 truncate or rounded tip pectiiiately ciliate. base surrounding and somewhat adnate 

 to base of gl. ii ; ii broadly oblong when unfolded, in »ifu narrow, strongly 

 2-keeled and plicate or depressed between the keels, truncate, ciliolate, villose 

 below ; iii hyaline oblong -li-'li", glabrous or ciliolate. Palea "OS" and nearly as 

 broad wheii unfolded, convolute round the linear tapering ovary, stigmas "IS" 

 long. Anthers '05". Pedicels of abortive spkt. -Ob" bearded. Joints of rlnichis 

 about one- third spkt,, bearded. 



65. LOPHOPOGON, Hack. 



Small densely tufted perennial grasses with very narrow leaves and 

 very short solitary 2-nate or fascicled spikes at the ends of very 

 slender branches, joints very short, slender, fragile, tips cupular. 

 Spikelets small, homogamous or heterogamous, 1-2 fid., 2-3-nate, 

 one sessile, callus obtusely conical villous. Glumes 4, i and ii chai'ta- 



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