139. GRAMINE.E. [71. Chrysopogon. 



and on the margins of the sheaths, about 4-nerved each side of mid- 

 rib. Panicle pale, from nearly simple to compound, branches fascicled 

 never as long as main rhachis, nodes sometimes slightly villous, joints 

 and pedicels equal compressed more or less translucent channelled 

 (subterete, not or obscurely channelled with no translucent centre, 

 F.B.I.), densely villous on margins, the villi usually covering the face 

 of gl. ii. Sessile spkt. -16- -18" long, very shining glabrous dorsally. 

 Gl. iv -08" deeply 2-fid the segments appearing as wings to the -S-'O" 

 long awn. Pedicelled spkt. Avith 3-4 glumes and male, base obtuse. 



Santal Parg. (Eajmahal Hills), Knrz ! Sinffbhum, Clarke ! Manbhum, Clarke ! 

 Palamau (Betlah aud Kechki foi'ests) ! Fl., Fr. Oct.-Nov. 



Sessile spkt. with rounded sliprhtly bearded callus. Gl. i ell. -oblong-, hispid on 

 the keels above, 6-8-nerved between the keels, truncate ; ii equal or slightly long-er, 

 cymbiform or with rounded back, delicately 5-9-nerved; iii lanceolate hyaline, a 

 little shorter, obtusely acuminate, ciliate ; iv :i-fid to below the middle, ciliolate with 

 verj^ delicate palea. Grain oblong- fusifcn-m, dark brown. '08" long. Fed. spkt. 

 •15-"1!)'' long ; gl. i 9-11-nerved ; ii cymbiform with keel ciliolate; lii four-fifths i, 

 lanceolate ciliolate; iv, if present, over half i, narrowly oblong- entire ciliolate 

 (perhaps the palea of iii}. 



71. CHRYSOPOGON, Trin. 

 Perennials Avith narrow leaves, ligule of minute hairs, and mostly 

 lax panicles Avith Avhorls of simple or basally divided hliform branches, 

 rarely the branches only 1-2-nate. Spikes of 3 spikelets (one sessile 

 and 2 pedicelled) at the ends of the branches, the triplets falling 

 together from the thickened obconic obliquelj^ truncate tips which are 

 crowned Avith a ring or beard of stiff hairs. Sessile spikelets narroAV, 

 laterally compressed ; gl. i linear or narrow, rigid, usually 4-ner\^ed 

 and laterally compressed ; ii broader, more or less cymbiform, 3- 

 nerved, tip 2-lobed, aAvned or not ; iii hyaline 2-ner\^ed ; iv the narroAV 

 hyaline 1-3 -nerved base of a long aAvn ; palea or small. Lodicules 

 glabrous. Grain linear, laterally compressed. Pedicelled spkt. dor- 

 sally compressed ; gls. i and ii aAA^ned or not. 



T. Small. 1-2 ft. Callus of sessile spkt. very long [as long as 



spkt.) acicular. Spkts. '\b" 1. aticulafu». 



II. Stout or slender, mostlj' over 3 ft. Callus shortly adnate, not 

 nearly as long as spkt. Spkts. over "IS" : — 



A. Pedicels half as long as sessile .spkt. or longer. Ped. spkt. 



over -3". Panicle 6-12" :— 

 Panicle oblong-, lower branches mostly less than twice the 



internode. Spkt. hispid on nerves. Ped. spkt. under '4" 2. lanceariH». 

 Panicle OA'oid or lanceolate, very dense, moi-e than twice 



length of internode. Spkts. glabrous. Ped. spkt. over 



•4" long 3. Ilamiltoiiii. 



B. Pedicels less than half as long <as sessile spkt. Panicles 



3-ti' 4. moiifajnis. 



1. C. acieulatus, Trin. Syn. Andropogon aciculatus, Eefz. ; Chora- 

 kanta, chui-kanta, Vern. 

 A small grass 12-18" high A\ith creeping stem and short densely 

 tufted leaves 1-5" by •12--2". Panicle very narroAV 1-4" long, usually 

 turning red or purple, Avith capillary branches solitary and subA^erti- 

 cillate apparently scaberulous or villous below the spikelets from the 

 villous callus being produced downwards and adnate on one side in a 

 long needle-like appendage -IS-- 17" long separating Avhen the spikelets 



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