139. GRAMINE.iL. [67. Capillipedium. 



sides hj^aline ; i\^ sometimes obtusel}^ 2-toothed -05", witli a delicate 

 awn about -20" long. Grain linear. 



Gregarious on damp banks and in ravines, verj' common. Behar, i/o/;^ ! Gya, 

 Mokiml Mong-hyr, Mokim\ Santal Parg., Kurz, etc.! Ranchi, If'oor/, etc.! 

 Parasnath (Hazaribagh), elev. 4000 ft. Anders, etc.! Singbhnm ! Fl., Fr. 

 Sept.-Dec. Annual. 



67. CAPILLIPEDIUM, Stapf. 

 Annual or perennial slender grasses with simple or often copiously 

 branched culms frequently bearded at the nodes. Panicles delicate, 

 usually lax and very compound, the branches capillary often repeatedly 

 2-furcate (in our species) spikes (or racemes) few-, usually 1-2- (very 

 rarely up to 8-) noded, ending in one sessile and 2 pedicelled spikelets. 

 Joints and pedicels filiform, longitudiualh- grooved or depressed and 

 translucent in the centre, leaving a minute transverse truncate or 

 very shallowly cupular scar on the peduncle after falling. Sessile 

 spikelet dorsally compressed, callus short rounded shortly bearded, 

 Gl. i 2-keeled, with narrow inflexed margins ; ii cymbiform and more 

 or less 3-keeled or 3-nerved, the awn of gl. iv fitting into the rounded 

 central keel ; iii hyaline, nerveless or ; iv reduced to the acutely 

 based awn. 8t. 3. Lodicules minute. Grain ellipsoid-oblong or 

 oblong. Ped. spkt. narrower than sessile ; gl. i dorsall}^ flattened ; 

 ii usually rounded on back ; iii oblong hyaline, with 3 stamens and a 

 very narrow palea (rudimentary gl. iv ?) or palea 0. 

 Panicle oblong. Sess. and ped. spkts. equal. Ped. spkt. with 



4 glumes 1. imn-ijlontiit. 



Panicle pj-ramidal. Ped. spkt. much louger than sess.. with 



3 glumes .2. toifimilh. 



1. C. parviflorum, Stapf. var. villosulum. 8yn. Andropogon micran- 

 thus, Knth. ; var. villosulus, Hack. 

 Stems polished rather stout 2-4-5 ft. high, nodes bearded, hirsute, 

 or very hairy on the leaf -sheaths and leaves, at least the lower. Leaves 

 0-12" by •17--25", or up to -4" (in Xeterhat specimens), flat, seta- 

 ceously acuminate, ligule short truncate, hairs with tubercle bases. 

 Panicle decompound effuse, red, oblong or narrowly pyramidal, 2-8", 

 primary branches clustered 2-4-together, unequal, 1-2-5" long, 

 repeatedly bifurcate or 3-furcate with capillary quite glabrous, 

 flexuous, spreading branchlets. Spikes reduced to one sessile and 2 

 pedicelled spikelets Avith sometimes an extra 1-2 prs. of spkts. below 

 them, joints and pedicels usually villous on one margin only. Sessile 

 spkt. linear-oblong to ell. -oblong -11-- 15" long, Gl. i dorsalh' hispid 

 and with somewhat longer hairs on the keels, rather opaque and 

 obscurely 2-nerved between the keels ; ii sub-3-keeled, also with 

 inflexed margins, sparsely hispidulous or puberulous ; iii short, obtuse, 

 nerveless (I cannot find it in some fls.) ; iv awn -S--?" long. Anthers 

 red -08". 



Champaran, Raranagar Hills, 2000 ft. ! lianchi and Palamau, above 2000 ft. 

 (Neterhat, frequent) ! Parasnath (Hazaribagh), elev. 2000 ft. to top, where it has 

 been collected by Hooker, Clarke, etc. ! Fl., Fr. Sept.-Nov. Perennial. 



Ped. spkt. with pedicel about two-thirds to four-hfths as long as spkt. Spkt. as 

 long as sessile. Gl. i ,5-7-nerved, scarcely keeled, margins incurved, minutelj' 

 hispidulous, acute; ii with incurved villous margins, 3-5-nerved; iii brcuidly 



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