72 CLXXIII. GRAMiNKffl. (J. D. Hooker.) \Arundinella. 



subverticillately fascicled, each with widely spreading capillary branches and branch- 

 lets. Spikelets the smallest of the genus, usually shorter than their capillary 

 pedicels ; gl. IV scabrid above ; column of awn slightly twisted. 



9. A. pyg-mea. Hook. f. ; annual, very small, slender, leaves chiefly 

 radical narrow hispidly hairy nerveless except the midrib margins serru- 

 late, panicle erect effuse, branches few capillary, spikelets few^in. setose, 

 gl. I = II ovate acute 3-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate 5- 

 nerved, III obtuse obscurely 5-nerved, IV oblong truncate, awn twice as 

 long as the spikelet. 



NORTH CANARA, Lisfioa. 



Whole plant 6 inches high and very slender. Closely allied to A. tenella, but 

 very much smaller, with very slender stem, narrow chiefly radical leaves 1-1 in. by 

 TTT in -> sparsely clothed with long bristles, and a very sparingly divided panicle with 

 few larger spikelets on very long capillary, pedicels. The specimens are very poor, 

 and the character given may hence require modification. 



10. A. IVIetzii, HocJist. ex Miq. in Verh. Ned. Inst. Ill Iv. (1851) 31 ; 

 tall, glabrous, leaves linear, panicle 3-10 in. effuse erect or inclined branches 

 alternate or fascicled elongate, spikelets i^-^y in. subsecund, long or short 

 pedicelled glabrous or sparsely setulose, gl. l = f II ovate acuminate 3- 

 nerved, II ovate-lanceolate acuminate 5-nerved, III acute 5-7-nerved, IV 

 oblong truncate obtuse or retuse scaberulous, awn about twice as long as 

 the spikelet. Steud. Syn. Gram. 116 (excl. Syn. Roxb.) ; Hochst. in Herb. 

 Hohenack. n. 257. A. agrostoides, Trin. var. tenella, Her}). Ind. Or. Hf. 

 fy T. Agrostis fusca, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. fy in Herb. Bottler. Arundi-' 

 nella, Wall. Cat. n. 8668. 



NILGHIRI HILLS; the Wynaad,'Sei/ne. The CONCAN and CANARA, Law, Metx, 

 Thomson, Woodrow, &c. 



Annual ? 1-3 ft. high. -Leaves 4-6 by 5 in., scaberulous and sheath more or 

 less hairy or glabrous. Panicle 1-8 in.; rnchis slender, smooth or subscaberulous ; 

 branches 14 in., uniformly flowering. Spikelets green or purplish, solitary or 2-nate, 

 longer or shorter than their pedicels which are sometimes | in. long j gl. I nerves 

 sometimes scabrid ; IV very obscurely bearded at the base, awn straight. Hohen- 

 acker's specimens appear to be annual, Heyne's have a small hard rootstock. This 

 is certainly not Roxburgh's Holcus nervosus, which Steudel cites for it. The panicle 

 varies greatly in length, breadth and composition ; in small specimens it is short and 

 triangular with spreading nearly simple branches, in taller it is more efl'use with 

 long flexuous branches and much longer pedicels. 



ft Spikelets more than ^ in. long. 



11. A. villosa, Arn. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 115 ; stems tufted villous 

 b'elow the very narrow panicle, rachis villous, branches spiciform short 

 simple hirsute, spikelets -i J in. secund crowded setosely hirsute, gl. I = f 

 II ovate acuminate 3-5-nerved, II subaristately acuminate 5-nerved, III 

 acute 5-nerved neuter or male, IV oblong-lanceolate very minutely 

 scaberulous, awn not twice as long as the spikelet. Tkw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 

 362 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 106. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA, the KHASIA HILLS, CENTRAL INDIA, the DECCAN PENIN- 

 SULA & CEYLON. 



Stem 12-16 in., slender, stiff, leafy at the villous base. "J Leaves 4-8 by VaT^u in -> 

 strict, rather rigid, glabrous tomentose or villous ; ligule o"f long hairs. Panicle 2-4 

 in., spiciform ; branches -|-| in., brown. Spikelets subdistichously crowded, spreading 

 or erect ; column of awn included twisted. Nees, according to Steadel, descril>es 

 gl. IV. as 2 -toothed. I find it to be ^usually rounded at the tip, but 2-toothed in 



