130 CLXXIII. GRAMiNEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ischamum. 



on Parusnath. CENTRAL INDIA. (Cult, in Bengal, Kurz.) DISTRIB. Aflghanistan, 

 China, Philippines. 



Stems 2-3 ft., tufted, sparingly branched, slender, grooved on one side, smooth. 

 Leaves 1-2 ft. by T ^- in., concave or convolute, base obtuse fimbriate, margins 

 scaberulous ; sheath glabrous, old basal forming with the wool a thickened mass ; 

 ligule a ridge of hairs. Spikes 1-2 in., close together or placed apart, erect, golden 

 or rusty villous ; joints and pedicels = | the lower spikelet, slender, shortly ciliate, 

 bearded at the base. Spikelets \^ in., lanceolate, callus hairs short; gl. I sub- 

 chartaceous, margined with long rufous hairs ; II rather longer, 3-5-nerved, ciliate, 

 keel bearded below; III oblong, obtuse, tip ciliate, nerveless, paleate; palea entire 

 or2-lobed, tip ciliate ; IV = II, 1-nerved, awn as long as the spikelet; palea short, 

 ovate, obtuse, tip fimbriate. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile. Hackel points 

 out that except for the inflorescence this is more a Spodiopogon or Pollinia than an 

 Isch&mum, and should perhaps form a genus. The woolly stem-base recalls Pollinia 

 velutina and phaeothrix. 



8. I. pilosum, Hack.Monogr.Androp.24D; tall, robust, leaves narrow, 

 spikes 2-6 villous, gl. I of sessile spikelet lanceolate bicuspidate translucent 

 dorsally flat or depressed hairy 6-nerved keels scabrid and ciliate, II longer 

 keel ciliate above, IY = III oblong-lanceolate 2-fid, awn short slender 

 inserted between the lanceolate lobes. DutMe Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 31 ; 

 Lisboain Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 199. Spodiopogon pilosus, 

 Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 373 ; Wight Gat. n. 1692. Andropogon pilifer, 

 Steud, I.e. A. pilosus, Klein ex Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 920. Andropogon, 

 Wall. Cat. n. 8817. 



AJMEEB ; at Neemuch, Jacquemont. CENTBAL PROVINCES, DutMe. The DECCAN 

 PENINSULA, Heyne, fyc. 



Stem very stout, extensively creeping; stolons sheathed; branches 2-3 ft., much 

 divided at the base, nodes glabrous. Leaves 6-12 in., flat or convolute, often wiry, 

 coriaceous, glaucous, finely acuminate, glabrous, base and mouth of sheath bearded ; 

 ligule membranous, rounded. Spikes fascicled, |-H m -> yellow or brownish, rachis 

 hairy, joints and pedicels slender, compressed, subclavate, shorter than the sessile 

 spikelets, sparsely ciliate. Sessile spikelets - in. ; callus minute, bearded with 

 long hairs; gl. I chartaceous, narrowed from the middle upwards, dorsally hairy, 

 nerves anastomosing, margins inflexed from base to tip; II rather longer, chartaceous, 

 laterally compressed, acuminate, 5-nerved ; III linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate above, 

 paleate, male, palea glabrous; IV = III, 3-nerved, lobes ciliolate, awn variable in 

 length; palea narrow or broad, ciliate. Peduncled spikelets smaller but like the 

 sessile, or imperfect, sometimes reduced to a single gl. 



ft Leaves hastate or cordate at the base, often petioled. 



Pedicel of upper spikelet not 5 the length of the lower spikelet. 



9. I. semisag-ittatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 320; annual, slender, 

 prostrate below, leaves oblong- or linear-lanceolate from a broad cordate or 

 sagittate base, spikes 2 villous or glabrescent, joints very short and stout, 

 gl. I of sessile spikelet oblong obtuse flat glabrous transversely undulate or 

 ridged or margins nodulose, II lanceolate acuminate villous or pubescent, 

 IV cleft to the middle or higher, awn dorsal below the cleft. Kunth Enum. 

 PI. i. 513 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 208 ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. vi. (1891) 197. I. conjugatum, Thw. Enum. PI. Zcyl. 365 ; Trim. Cat. 

 Ceyl. PL 107 ; Hack. 1. c. 205 (non Roxb.}. Meoschium semisagittatum, 

 Schult. Mant. ii. 435. Spodiopogon semisagittatus, Voigt Hort. Suburb. 

 Gale. 706. Andropogon semisagittatus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 376. 



BENGAL, Roxburgh. The DECCAN, CONCAN, and CANARA, Stocks, Talbot. 

 CEYLON, Thwaites (C.P. 3263). 



