Arundinella.'] CLXXIII. QRAMINEJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 77 



5-nerved, III rather longer than I, obtuse 5-nerved, IY lanceolate base 

 naked, awn 0. 



The CONCAN, Stocks; Kineshwur, at the foot of the Ghats, Dalz. 8f G-ibs. 



Stem 6 ft., branched below, as thick as a goose-quill at 18 in. below the panicle, 

 node swollen. Leaves 12-24 in., finely acuminate, subcoriaceous, many-nerved, 

 scabrld above, glabrous or sparingly hairy, margins smooth ; sheath sparingly hairv ; 

 ligule a narrow glabrous membrane. Panicle 5-7 in. long by 2-3 broad, brush-like, 

 branches uniform, quite concealing the angular scabrid rachis. Spikelets brownish, 

 short and broad, keel of gl. I scabrid. A distinct-looking plant, nearest perhaps to 

 A. Clarkei in inflorescence. 



22. A. "blephariphylla, Trim. mss. ; tall, stout, leafy, leaves long 

 broad thin smooth, margins setosely serrulate, panicle broadly oblong, 

 branches laxly whorled spreading filiform, spikelets in. snbsolitary as 

 long as their pedicels glabrous, gl. I = II broadly ovate acute 3-nerved, 

 II ovate acuminate 5-nerved, TV oblong subacute 5-nerved, IV lanceolate 

 scaberulous base naked, awn 0. Panicum blephariphyllum, Trim, in Lond. 

 Journ. Sol xxii. (1885) 272, Cat. Ceyl. PL 105. 



CEYLON ; margins of woods by the sea at Kesanwelle, Ferguson, Trimen. 

 Annual ? Stem 3 ft. and upwards, nodes glabrous. Leaves 12-18 by nearly 



I in., rather membranous ; sheath loose ; ligule obscure. Panicle 4-6 in. ; rachis 

 strict, nearly smooth ; branches spreading or subrecurved ; axils hairy. The speci- 

 mens are few, but the species appears to be a distinct one, nearest to A. leptochloa, 

 which has narrower more coriaceous leaves and smaller spikelets. 



23. A. Thwaitesii, Hook. /. ; very slender, glabrous, leaves very 

 narrow, panicle oblong effuse, branches capillary solitary alternate or the 

 lower fascicled, branchiets spreading, spikelets | in. solitary shorter than 

 their capillary pedicels, gl. I = | III very broadly ovate acute 3-5-nerved, 



II broadly ovate acuminate 5-nerved, III as long as II acute 7-nerved, IV 

 lanceolate acute, awn 0. A. nervosa, yar. Tkwaites mss. 



CEYLON, Wallcer ? ; Ambagamowa district, Thwaites (C.P. 3782). 



Stem 2-3 ft., strict, erect; nodes glabrous. Leaves 4-8 by - in., finely 

 acuminate ; ligule a short ciliate membrane. Panicle 3-5 in., branches naked at the 

 base. Spikelets more turgid and coriaceous than usual in the genus, with shorter, 

 broader, shorter pointed, purplish glumes ; IV naked at the base. Nearly allied to 

 A. laxiflora, but has much broader glumes, of which III is longer than I and about 

 as long as II. 



UNDETERMINABLE SPECIES. 



A. INDICA, Trin. mss. ex Steud. Nom. E&. II i. 143 = Agrostis biseta, Herb. 

 Spreng. Name only. 



^ A. SPICATA, Dalz. in Dalz. $ Gibs. Somb. Fl. 293 ; stem 1 ft., leaves 1-1 by 

 i in. ensiform and sheaths hispid, spike 1^ in. cylindric (as in Setaria) dense-fld. 

 gl. I r V in. lanceolate subulate subpilose 3-nerved, upper | in. long-attenuated 

 and folded concealing the awn. THE CONCAN, on the Mahableshwur Hills, 

 common. 



A. JAPONICA, Duthie Grass. N.W. India, 13. 



13. SETARIA, Beauv. 



Spikelets 1- rarely 2-fld., not awned, clustered on the very short 

 branches of a spike-like or narrowly pyramidal panicle, articulate on very 

 short pedicels which bear a persistent involucel of few or many scabrid or 

 barbed bristles (barren branchiets). Glumes 4, membranous; I = about 



