108 CLXXIII. GRAMINB^!. (J, D. Hooker.) [Miscanthus. 



Much smaller than M. nepalensis, 2-3 ft. high, with leaves 4-10 in. long, the 

 margins of which are smooth as in that plant ; spikelets very much longer, -| in. 

 Jong, and narrower. 



33. SPODIOPOGON, Trin. 



Tall grasses. Leaves often long-petioled. Spikelets 1-2-fld., panicled, 

 laterally compressed or subterete, 2-3-nate, lower sessile male, upper 

 bisexual^ rachis jointed. Glumes 4; I and II subequal; I lanceolate, 5-9- 

 nerved, tip acuminate or toothed ; II membranous, lanceolate, 3-7-nerved ; 

 III hyaline, paleate or not, 3-androus or empty; IY 2-fid or 2-partite with a 

 very slender exserted awn in the sinus ; palea shorter. Lodicules cuneate. 

 Anthers linear. Stigmas linear. Grain free, narrowly fusiform. Species 

 about 5, Asiatic. 



1. S. albidus, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 66; decumbent, 

 leaves long-petioled broad flaccid, panicle narrow, spikelets 2-fld. laterally 

 compressed, silkily villous, gl. I membranous. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 185. 

 Andropogon albidus, Hb. Heyne. A. rhizophorus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 

 381; DutUe Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 26. Andropogon ? Watt. Gat. n. 

 8821. 



EAJPOOTANA ; on Mt. Aboo, Dufhie. DECCAN PENINSULA, from the Concan to 

 Travaucore. 



A weak struggling tufted branched annual ?, 2-4 feet ; stem very slender, much 

 branched, leafy. Leaves 6-10 by 4-4 i n -> flaccid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1- 

 nerved, usually suddenly narrowed into a slender petiole 1-3 in. long; sheath 3-5 in. ; 

 ligule oblong, glabrous. Panicle at first enclosed in a long narrow spathaceous 

 leaf-sheath ; rachis compressed, ciliate. Spikelets about i in. long, white ; shortly 

 pedicelled. Gl. I minutely 2-mucronate, 7-nerved j II broader, much compressed j 

 III truncate tip erose. 



2. S. dubius, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 186 ; erect, leaves sessile long 

 narrow and sheaths softly hairy, panicle narrow, spikelets 1-fld. silkily 

 villous, gl. I chartaceous 7-9-nerved. Andropogon, n. 16, Herb. H. /. 

 & T. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 6-8000 ft., Thomson, 

 &c. 



Perennial. Stem 2-4 ft., solid, as thick as a goose-quill, quite smooth. Leaves 

 12-18 by - in., smooth hairy or villous, base villous, margins ecaberulous, base 

 villous, midrib broad, white ; sheath glabrous ; ligule densely villous. Panicle 

 6-8 in., narrowly oblong, erect, very dense-fld., pale; pedicels very short. Spikelets 

 ^ in. ; gl. I acuminate, dorsally convex, margins narrowly incurved; II as long, 

 subcbartaceous, 3-5-nerved, hairy dorsally, sometimes obtuse and apiculate; III 

 oblong, obtuse, hyaline, 1-nerved ciliate ; IV shorter than II, cleft into lanceolate 

 segments with a slender interposed awn as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved below the 

 middle ; palea lanceolate, 2-fid. 



3. S. cotulifer, Sack. Monogr. Androp. 187 ; tall, erect, leaves long 

 sessile and petioled, panicle lax effuse branches and long capillary pedicels 

 short subclavate, spikelets 1-fld. lanceolate terete sparsely hairy, gl. I and 

 II coriaceous strongly nerved. Eulalia cotulifera, Munro ex Miq. Prolus. 

 Fl. Jap. 177; f ranch. & Sav. En. PL Jap. ii. 189. Miscanthus cotulifer, 

 Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 65. Eccoilopus andropogonoides, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 124. Andropogon cotulifer, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 41. 



WESTEEN TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 4-6000 ft., from Kashmir, Clarke, to 



