﻿Plate 1871. 



ANDROPOGON LANIGEB, Desf. 

 GEAMiNEiE. Tribe Astdeopogoneje. 

 _ A. (Oymbopogon) laniger, Desf. FL Atl. 2, p. 379; foliis junceis j 

 Hgula brevi, truncata ; racemis demum deflexis, spiculas fori 

 prima pi-aster nervos carinales enervi. A. eriopliorus, Will-'. >V 

 PI. iv. 910; A. circinnatus, Uoclistett. fy Stcwh 1U>. > <• p- Ai •''''■ 

 789 ; A. Olivieri, Boiss. Diag. Ser. i. 5, p. 76. 



Hab. Our figure is made from a specimen of A. rircinnatv*, 

 in Herb. Un. It. nr. 789 ; the typical plant of Desfontames 

 differs scarcely by its leaves a little thinner. The species extends 

 from Morocco to East India (Scinde), where it overlaps the area of 

 the very closely allied A. Twara s chiefly by 



the curious way by which the old leaf-sheaths at the base of the calms 

 split along the middle vein into the strap-shaped parts, while they 

 remain entire in J. /,/„,>>•: in this they are much dibit- 

 base, in A. Iwarancum they are of equal breadth. The panicle of the 

 latter is much more compound than that of A. laniger. In spite of these 

 differences, which seem to justify their specific distinction, the two 

 species are sometimes connected by intermediate forms. 



Dense csespitosus. Culmi innovationesque basi vaginis emortuis dm 

 ppvsistentibus valde dilatatis incrassati, 20-60 cm. alti, graciles, a 

 medio paniculatim ramosi. Foil 1CS ' g lat ? ra ; 



lamina angusta, convolute - ibcireinnata, longissime 



setaceo- v. capillari-acuminata, rigida, glauca, scaberula, culmum 

 suha-quans. V, /,, .m 1 _ (K.-2<> cm. 1 <n), laxmscnla 



ramis plerisqu oi is e vagina folii matncis parum 



v. non exserti is. SpathcB scariosa?, rn 



Hneari-lance.dat . J ; ,-,» Ion . -labnr, p. dm nli i 

 communem duplo'-triplosuprra, -. /,' ■ •■ f >|- : - ' aiictoruin) diver- 

 gentes v. deflexi, ina-miales, 2 (-an Ihsque spicu- 



f ' :\,:.. ^ ', .:..:.' 



longa3, lineari-lanceolatse, flavo-viridnla> v. a pice leyiter v ^ J ^ sc ®f^; 



gin ma prima herbaceo-membranacea 



tula, marginibus late inflexis, flexuris 



i 



marginibus scariosis ciliatis, 1-nervis ; fceri ia 1 1 



1 " ! ■•• - •.-.: , .-.. .-:.■■. ■ ■" '■ -■ ' •• ■ 



quam secunda % brevior, lineari-oblonga, in f-% superior 



1. - :. 11 mm. I,, ,,,:, (.pi.nla vi.x v. usque ad subduplo longaorem) 



l scabris ; secunda 



. supra basin subgenic 



truncatte, glabrae. Ant/are 2-5 3 mm. longae. 



purea, stylis longiora, e media spicula exserta. 



5-7 mm. longa;, lanceolataa, livide jrarpurascrnh s • - unl ', ' .,'"]:'. : rar 



nervis, secunda el tertia ai 



mutica. Siamimi ut in spicula li ; 



racemi etiam c? , mutica. Odore forti, grata •&• • 



