65. Akthraxon.] 1S9. GRAMINE.E. 



1. A. lanceolatus, Hochst. 



A suberect or sub-scandent branched leafy grass 1-3 ft. high with 

 very firm poHshed sterns and glabrous or very hairy lanceolate (more 

 rarely ovate) leaves -5-3" by •25-1-5" or sometimes narrowly lanceo- 

 late ^1-4" long. Spikes 3-5, -5-2" long. Spikelets -17—22" long 

 linear-lanceolate often purple. Gl. i dorsally convex smooth or muri- 

 ciilate acute with hyaline 5-7-nerved tip, marginal nerves with very 

 characteristic pectinate curved teeth, each ending in a hair towards 

 tip. Pedicelled spkt. linear-lanceolate awnless, bearing a male fl. 



Manblium, Camp* ! Hazaribagb, on Parasiiath, -i'iOO ffc. Clarke ! FI. Oct. 



Our specimens have broadly lanceolate amplexicaul leaves 1-2-5" lou^- with 

 slightly to densely hairy sheaths, margins of blade pectinately ciliate. Joints of 

 rhachi's bearded on one side, transversely truncate at tip. Sessile spkt. gl. ii 

 liyaline keeled, slightly shorter than i, keel sparsely hispid ; iii shorter; iv about 

 two-thirds i, acute, hyaline with awn '4" long from its base. Fed. spkt. gl. i 

 about '18'' long, 7-nerved. slightly ciliate towards tip; ii linear-lanceolate, very 

 acute ; iii hyaline •!" Avith 2 perfect stamens ; iv 0. 



2. A. ciliaris, Beauv. 



A small rarely tall and then clambering, usually densely gregarious 

 grass with the lower leafless parts of the slender stems often decum- 

 bent, the upper parts with short broad ovate to lanceolate leaves 

 1-3" long with cordate base and ciliate margins. Spikelets sessile 

 •15" (•1--2" F.B.I.), green or purple arranged alternately on opposite 

 sides of the flexuous rhachis of 3-5 sub-digitate (shortl}^ racemed) 

 spikes -7-1-5" long, which are sometimes branched from the base, 

 or whole inflorescence a single branched spike. Gl. i linear-oblong 

 scabrid or scaberulous or echinate upwards, coriaceous in fruit and 

 cylindrically folded, faintly 7-10-nerved, tip entire ; ii keeled, acute 

 or acuminate, keel slightly scabrid with short hairs obscurely 3-nerved, 

 margins broad hyaline embracing the inner glumes. Pedicelled spkt. 

 reduced to the pedicel. 



In moist places tnider shade. Santal Parganahs, Rajmahal Hills, Kurz\ 

 Ranchi and Palamau, common at 2000 ft. and above ! Hazaribagb, common, up 

 to top of Farasnath, Clarke, etc. ! Singbhum, 2500 ft., Clarke ! Manbhum, 1000 ft., 

 Clarke ! Fl., Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



Nodes often bearded. L. glabrous or hairy 7-ll-nerved, sheath with ciliate 

 margins, ligule of long hairs. Joints of rhachis glabrous or more or less ciliate. 

 Gl. iii about | i, oblong hyaline ; iv subequals iii with delicate sub-basal awn "6" 

 long or less, and linear terete grain about "l" long. 



3. A. microphyllus, Hochst. 



Closely resembling states of the last species. A delicate diffuse 

 leafy grass with branched filiform stems hairy at the nodes, and short 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate finely acuminate leaves -5-1-5" long 

 glabrous or hairy and ciliate, base amplexicaul cordate. Spikes 

 mostly 2-10 short slender -3--7" rarely 1" long with villous rhachis at 

 the end of filiform peduncles which are hairy at the end. Spikelets 

 -08-- 1" rarely -12" only ; pedicels of upper spikelets not one-third as long 

 as sessile spkt. often with 2 barren glumes. Gl. i of sessile spkt. 

 jiarrow-linear dor.sally scabrid faintly 2-4-nerved, 2-toothed or 2-aris- 

 tulate at tip, margins inrolled ; ii acuminate or aristulate, laterally 

 compressed, the awn sometimes as long as the dorsally scabrid keel, 



* Cam/)6e//'s specimen bearing " Flora of Manbhum " label without locality may 

 also be from Farasnath. 



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