2 
A, striatus, Klein apud Willd. Spec. Pl. vol. iv. p. 903. A. tacazensis, 
Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. vol. i. p. 369. A. macrostachys, Anderss. in 
Schweinf. Beitr. Pl. Aeth. p. 306. Ischaemum larum, R.Br. Prodr. 
p- et Benth. Fl. Austral. vol. vii. p. 522; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vol. p. 136 (pro parte). I. laxum a genuinum, Hack. l.c. 
Z. obser Thw. Enum. Pl. Zeyl. p. 365. I. macrostachyum, A. 
Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. vol. ii. p. 472. Pollinia striata, Spreng. Pu 
vol. il. p- 12. a nervosum, Nees in Edinb. N. Phil. Journ. 
vol. xviii. p. 185. 
Nortu-Eastern Trovican. Arrica and Inpo-Matayan ReGIon. 
A xerophytic type. Africa: Abyssinia, Somaliland and Kenya 
(Nairobi). India: throughout the Deccan northwards to Rajputana 
and Behar ; Ceylon ; Inner Burma to Siam. Tropical North Australia. 
Hackel l.c. has already suggested that Sehima, which he treated as 
a subgenus of Ischaemum, should perhaps be considered rather a 
- distinct genus.—O. Srapr. 
Fig. 1, pair of spikelets ; 2, pedicel ; 3, lower glume ; 4, upper glume ; 5, valve 
of lower "floret ; 6, valvule ; 7, valve o of upper floret ; 8, valvule e same (2~ mit be 
sessile spikelet) ; 9, upper glume ; 10, valve of lower floret ; 11, valvule of sa 
12, valve of upper floret; 13, valvule of same (9-13 of pedioellod spikelet). 
All enlarged. 
