70 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Arundinella. 



5-7-nerved, narrowed into a long beak, III obtuse male, IV lanceolate 

 base pilose, median awn about -| longer than the spikelet slender hardly 

 twisted. Arnndinella, Wall. Cat. n. 8663 B. 



TRAVANCOR; Pulney Mts. and Courtallam, Wight. 



Stem 1-2 ft., branching from the base, slender. Leaves 3-4 by i- in., base 

 narrowed; ligule obscure. Panicle 2-4 in., hirsute, branches -- in., sessile 

 (i.e. flowering to the base), rachis hairy ; spikelets distichously spreading. Gl. I 

 hardly awned, ovate; II about longer, lanceolate; III glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong ; IV not seen ripe, base bearded. 



4. A. nervosa, Nees in Wall. Cat. n. 8662 ; annnal, leaves narrow, 

 softly hairy with spreading hairy, panicle mnch branched, branches capil- 

 lary laxly many-fid., spikelets in. pedicelled, gl. I acuminate 3-nerved, 

 11 nearly twice as long 5-nerved narrowed into a long straight beak, III 

 obtuse, IV ovate-lanceolate scaberulous, median awn slender. Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 115 ; Wight Cat. n. 2387, 1669 a j8 y. Holcus nervosus, Boxb. 

 ex Wight Cat. n. 1669 (non Roxb. Fl. Ind.) Ischcemum melicoides, Koen. 

 ms in Serb. Wight. Andropogon hirsutum & scoparium, Heyne in Serb. 

 Rottl. Agr< Btis scoparia, Eoen. ex Steud. I. c. Anemagrostis Neesiana, 

 Wight fy ^rn. ex Steud. I. c. Arundinella, Wall. Cat. n. 8665. 



SOUTHERN DECCAN PENINSULA; Heyne, Wight, &c. 



Stem 12-18 in., slender, branched from the base. Leaves 4-8 by - in., and 

 sheaths usually copiously hairy on both surfaces with long white spreading hairs, 

 base narrow; ligule membranous, ciliate. Panicle 6-10 in.; branches 2-4 in., 

 fascicled and whorled, erect, flexuous, smooth, glabrous. Spikelets suberect, glabrous 

 or nerves of gl. I and II more or less setose ; gl. Ill neuter or male; IV slightly 

 bearded at the base, median awn more or less twisted at the very slender base. 

 Wight's |8 laxior (Cat. 1669 b) is only a slender form. Lisboa (in Journ. Somb. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1891) 344) gives Concan, Coromandel and Ceylon as habitats, 

 but without seeing specimens it is not safe to cite an authority in so difficult a 

 genus. A. nervosa, Duthie Grass. N.-W. Ind. 13, from the Himalaya is probably 

 one of the forms of brasiliensis. 



5. Ai setosa, Trin. piss. ii. 63, Panic. Gen. 245 ; perennial, tall, 

 leaves usually narrow, panicle 6-12 in., branches subsolitary slender erect 

 laxly many-fid., spikelets -|~J in. subsecund pedicelled, gl. I and II aris- 

 tately acuminate glabrous or setose, I = f-| IL 3-nerved,' II elongate 

 lanceolate 5-nerved, III shorter obtuse or subacute 5-7-nerved, IV = | III 

 lanceolate scabernlous. Steud. Syn. Gram. 114 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 

 13. A. hirsuta, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. 115, $ Sochst. in Sohen. PI. Ind. Or. 

 n. 920. A. setit'era, Steud. 1. c. 115. A. stricta, Nees in Hook. Kew Journ. 

 ii. (1850) 102 ; Dalz. * Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 292. Milium cimicinoides, Roxb. 

 mss. PArundinaria sp. nov. Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Sist. Soc. v. 

 (1891)343. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; alt. 5-8000 ft., from Dalhousie to Nepal, Wallich, <&jc. 

 KHASIA HILLS, alt. 8-6000 ft. BEHAR, on the Soane river, J.D.H. CENTRAL 

 INDIA, Clarice. NILGHIRI HILLS, alt. 6000 ft., Schmidt, &c. CEYLON; at Trin- 

 comalee, Ferguson. DISTRIB. Tonkin, China, Philippines. 



Stems densely tufted on a hard rootstock, 1-3 ft, stout or slender, leafy. Leaves 

 6-10 in., convolute, glabrous pubescent or villous; ligule obscure. Panicle 2-6 in., 

 sometimes corymbiform ; branches 2-5 in., usually naked below. Spikelets often 

 in pairs, pedicels with sometimes a few hairs near the tip. Median awn of gl. IV 

 about as long as the spikelet. The name hirsuta is attached to a specimen in Herb. 

 Koyle, so named no doubt by Ntes. 



