Arundinella^ CLXXIII. GRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 



6. A. khaseana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 115 ; tall, robust, leaves 

 narrow, panicle 6-18 in. branches long or short erect scabrid, spikelets 

 $$ in. setose with long tubercled based bristles, gl. I and II aristately 

 acuminate, I = II 5-nerved, II 5-nerved, III acuminate or subaristate, 

 IV oblong-lanceolate nearly smooth. Arundinella P Wall. Cat. n. 8672. 



KHASIA HILLS; alt. 4-6000 ft., common. 



Stem 3-6 ft., from a woody tufted rootstock, as thick as a swan's quill or less, 

 nodes pubescent or bearded. Leaves 6-12 in., and sheaths glabrous pilose or 

 villous; ligule a ridge of hairs. Panicle effuse or contracted or thyrsiform ; 

 branches 1-6 in. long. Spikelets pedicelled, crowded or distant, dark green ; gl. IV. 

 with the median awn variable in length, strongly twisted at the stout base, lateral 

 awns short. 



** Awn solitary, longer than the spikelet. 

 t Spikelets about T \ -^ in. long. 



7. A- agrostoides; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 265 ; annual, villous or 

 glabrescent> leaves broad flat flaccid, panicle contracted, branches fascicled 

 suberect, spikelets glabrous or setose, gl. I = f II ovate acuminate 3-5- 

 nerved, II subaristately acuminate 5-nerved, III subacute 3-5-nerved, IV 

 oblong-lanceolate scabrid. Steud. Syn. Gram. 116. A. holcoides, Trin. in 

 Bull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. i. (1836) 71. Brandtia holcoides, Kunth Jtevis. 

 Gram. ii. 129, t. 170 ; Steud. I c. Arundinella ? Wall. Gat. n. 8671. 



SOUTH DECCAN, and the CONCAN, &c., Wight, &c. TENASSEEIM, Wallich, 

 Heifer. DISTRIB. Philippines. 



Stem 6-18 in., stout or slender. Leaves 1-4: in., up to in. broad, narrowed to 

 the base, and sheaths usually clothed with long soft hairs ; ligule a ridge of hairs. 

 Panicle 1-9 in., always contracted ; branches -1 in., capillary, suberect, sparingly 

 divided ; gl. I and II rarely without bristles ; III male or neuter ; column of awn 

 exserted, twisted. 



Var. ciliata; panicle more copiously setose, spikelets rather larger. Amndinella 

 ciliata, Nees in Wight Cat. n. 1666. A. pilosa, Hochst. in Hohen. PL Ind. Or. n. 

 647 & 935 ; Miq. in Verh. Nedel. Ind. iii. iv. (1851) 30. Holcus ciliatus, Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 318. Audropogon paniceus, Heyne ex Wall. 1. c. <Sf in Herb. Rottl. 

 Perotis polystachya, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. I. c. ' The Deccan Peninsula, from the 

 Concan southward. Moulmein, Griffith. Arundinella, Wall. Cat. n. 8664. 







8. A. tenella? Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 115 ; annual, glabrous, 

 leaves flaccid lanceolate, panicle very large effuse copiously branched, 

 rachis and branches capillary spreading, spikelets y^^ in. solitary long- 

 pedicelled glabrous or sparsely setose, gl. I = f 111 3-nerved, II ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III 5-nerved, IV oblong, awn twice as 

 long as the spikelet. Wight Cat. n. 1668 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 292 ; 

 Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 13; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. v. 

 (1891) 345. A. pumila, Steud. 1. c. 114; Lisboa I.e. Acratherum pumilum, 

 Hochst. ex A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 414, t. 100. Anemagrostis teiiella, 

 Wight ex Steud. I. c. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, alt. 4000 ft. RAJPOOTANA, on Mt. Abu, &c. 

 BEHAR and CENTRAL INDIA, alt. 3-4000 ft. The KHASIA HILLS, the CONCAN 

 and PEGU. DISTRIB. Abyssinia. 



Stem 6-20 in., erect, soft, leafy, very sparsely hairy. Leaves from ovate and 

 2-4 in. long, to linear- lanceolate and 14 in. long, often f in. broad, acuminate, 

 membranous, many-nerved, base narrow ; sheath rarely hairy ; ligule short, hairy. 

 Panicle 2-10 in. ; rachis slender, strict, erect ; branches alternate or the lower 



