Arundinella.] OLXXIII. GRAMIKEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 73 



var. himalaica. Gl. Ill is more acute than is usual in the genus and its palea 

 larger. 



Var. Wightii ; leaves very narrow convolute, basal sheaths woolly. 



Var. Heyne ; taller, stouter, basal sheaths nearly naked, leaves longer broader 

 and flat 12 by in., panicle 4 in. long. Andropogon paniceus, Herb. Heyne ex Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8663 A. Courtallam, Wight. 



Var. himalaica ; basal sheaths naked, leaves 2-6 by ^~i in. flat, spikes some- 

 times shortly peduncled, gl. IV 2-toothed. A. Hookerii, Munro ms. Bhotan, E. 

 Nepal and Sikkiin Himalaya, alt. 6-11,000 ft., Griffith, J. D.H., Clarice. 



12. A. birmanica, Hook.f.; annual, stout, stem glabrous, leaves 

 linear-lanceolate flat hirsute, panicle linear-oblong interrupted, branches 

 sessile simple or sparingly divided, rachis ciliate and scaberulous, spikeleta 

 i-i in. densely crowded subsessile glabrous or with a few setae, gl. I 

 = |IL ovate subaristately acuminate 5-nerved, II ovate-lanceolate long- 

 acuminate 5-nerved, III acute 5-nerved, IV oblong-lanceolate scabrid, awn 

 not twice the length of the spikelet. 



BURMA ; Rangoon, M'Lelland, Scott, Kurz. 



Stem tufted, 1-2 ft., stout, soft, leafy, nearly as thick as a goose-quill, nodes 

 bearded. Leaves 4-8 by J-f in., base subcordate, sheath hirsute; ligule a narrow 

 ciliate membrane. Panicle 3-7 in., very pale, branches or spikes 1-2 in sessile, 

 erect; gl. Ill male female or neuter, awn of IV with twisted included column. 

 Near A. villosa, but annual, with soft stems and leaves much smaller and hardly 

 setose spikelets, stem glabrous below the panicle. 



13. A. brasiliensis, Raddi, Agrost, Bras. 37, t. i. fig. 3 ; stem erect 

 stout or slender, leaves broad or narrow, panicle pyramidal subcorymbose 

 or thyraiform. sparingly or copiously branched, spikelets -|- in. subsecund 

 longer than their pedicels usually quite glabrous, gl. I = II ovate-lanceo- 

 late acuminate 3-nerved, II lanceolate finely acuminate 5-nerved, III sub- 

 acute 5-nerved, IV oblong-lanceolate acute scaberulous, awn twice as long 

 as the spikelet. Trin. Diss. ii. 62, Panic. Gen. 246, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 266 ; 

 Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II, 298, t. 38. A. Ecklonii, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 

 8< >. A. martinicensis, Trin. Diss. ii. 62 ; Panic. Gen. 246 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. 



W. 2nd. 556. A. Mikani, Nees Agrost. Bras. 465. A. nepalensis, Trin. Diss. 

 ii. 62 ; Panic. Gen. 335, Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 268 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. 2nd. 13 ; 

 &teud. Syn. Gram. 115; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. .Nat. Hist. Soc. v. (1891), 

 343. A. pallida, Nees Agrost. Bras. 465. A. rigida, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 80. 

 A. Ritchiei, Munro ex Lisboa 1. c. A. stricta, Nees in Hook. Kew Jowrn. ii. 

 (1850), 102'; ? Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 293. Acratherum miliaceum, Link 

 Hort. Berol. i. 320. Orthopogon agrostoides, Trev. ex Steud. Norn., Ed. II. 

 ii. 234. Aira brasiliensis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. i. 278. Goldbachia Mikani, 

 Trin. in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 81. Ischsemurn hispidum, H. B. & K. 

 Nov. Gen. fy Sp. i. 194 ; Kunili Revis. Gram. i. 373, t. 100 ; JEnum. PL i. 

 515. Riedeliia Mikani, Trin. ex Kunth Enum, I. c. Holcus nervosus, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. i. 318. Thysanachne scoparia,Prt8 Nov. PL Gen. Diss. 1829, cum 

 Ic. Eel Hcenk. i. 253. Andropogon hispidus, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 908. A. ? 

 epiphyllus, Wall. Gat. n. 8667 A. A. virens, Spreng. Syst. i. 287. 

 Airacea, Griff. Notul. 53, Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 141, f. ll.Arundinella, Wall. 

 Cat. n. 8666, 8667. 



Throughout the hilly parts of INDIA, from the Himalaya, ascending to 7000 ft., 

 to BURMA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. China, Malaga, Australia, S. Africa, trop. 

 America. 



Perennial ; rootstock stout, hard, creeping and sending out stout sheathed 

 brunches (sometimes as thick us a goose-quill, or Lulled and intricately branched. 



