IscJicemum.'} CLXXIII. GEAMINE^!. (J. D. Hooker.) 139 



cleft to below the middle, awn very short inserted in the cleft. P Lisboa in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vi. (1891) 198. Spodiopogon petiolaris, Trin. 

 in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. vi. ii. (1833) 301. S. Lekmanni, Griaeb. in 

 Goetting. Nachr. (1868) 91. Pollinia Lehmanni, Wight & Arn. ex Nees PI. 

 Meyer, 186 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 16. Andropogon petiolaris, Steud. 

 8yn. Gram. 398. PA. petiolatus, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FL 303. Wall. 

 Cat. 8807 A. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 5-8000 ft., from Garwhal to Nepal. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft. ?The CONCAN, Dalzell, Lisboa. BURMA; Karen Hills, 

 Kurz. 



Stem 2-3 ft., simple or branched, pubescent below the spikes ; nodes pubescent. 

 Leaves 8-12 by f-l| in., setaceously acuminate, more or less hairy, margins scabrid ; 

 sheath glabrous or margins ciliate ; ligule stiff, oblong, truncate. Spikes 8-20, 

 -! in., simple or divided, rachis glabrous, axils bearded; joints and pedicels 

 flattened, subtrigonous, about as long as the spikelets, shortly ciliate. Spikelets 

 J-i- in., oblong-lanceolate, pale greenish; callus minute, shortly bearded; gl. I 

 chartaceous, 6-8-nerved to the tip, margins rather broadly inflexed from base to tip ; 

 keels scabridly ciliate; II chartaceous, keel scabrid, 3-nerved; III = I, oblong, 

 obtuse, hyaline, ciliate, 3-nerved, paleate, male, palea oblong-lanceolate 2-nerved 

 ciliate; IV = \ III, glabrous, 3-nerved, lobes acute, awn 5 in. ; palea = the gl., 

 lanceolate, 2-nerved, glabrous. Pedicelled spikelet like the sessile, but gl. I hardly 

 channelled; III epaleate ; IV male. As Hackel remarks, this has the habit of a 

 Pollinia sect. Leptatherum (where I should have been disposed to place it) with the 

 spikelets more of an Ischcemum. I have seen no Concan specimen. 



27. I. robustum, Hook.f. ; tall, stout, leaves long narrow coriaceous 

 softly tomentose on both surfaces, spikes few racemed strict erect, joints 

 very stout obliquely truncate lower minutely puberulous, sessile spikelets 

 - in. ovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute coriaceous awnless dorsally flat 

 quite glabrous with 6-9 broad low nerves, keels scabrid above the middle, 

 II coriaceous 7-9-nerved, III 3-nerved paleate male, IV oblong apiculate 

 awnless. 



N.W. HIMALAYA ; " Pauni, in Bursahir, alt. 7000 ft./' Brandts (Herb. Calcutt.). 



Stem several feet high from a hard rootstock, hard, solid, nearly as thick as a 

 goose-quill, naked below. Leaves 12-18 by |- in., narrowed from the base to the 

 long acuminate tip, sides incurved scaberulous, midrib very stout ; sheath long, finely 

 pubescent; ligule a brush of long hairs. Spikes 4-5 in., lower stipitate; peduncle 

 stout, glabrous ; joints i shorter than the spikelets, dorsally rounded, ventrally deeply 

 concave. Sessile spikelets quite glabrous, appressed to the rachis, upper in the 

 spike smaller than the lower ; callus very short, stout; gl. I sometimes channelled 

 in the middle, very variable in the number and position of the rib-like nerves, tip 

 minutely toothed, margins narrowly incurved ; II as long as I, eciliate ; III shorter, 

 male; palea, ovate-lanceolate, 2-nerved, eciliate; IV as long as III, rigidly mem- 

 branous, 3-nerved; palea nearly as long, 2-nerved, both eciliate. Pedicelled spikelet 

 s smaller than the sessile ; gl. I oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, other gls. and palea as 

 in the sessile, but both flg. Very unlike any other N. Indian species. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



I. COROLLATUM, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 369 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 18 ; 

 Sack. Monogr. Androp. 252. Andropogon corollatus, Steud. I.e. Mussoorie, Royle. 



I. HUGELII, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 252 ; annual, glabrous, decumbent and 

 branched below, leaves 1-12 by in. flat flaccid, upper sessile cordate-lanceolate, 

 lower shortly petioled, spike solitary l|-2 in. rather stout, joints clavate dorsally 

 convex, gl. I of sessile spikelets oblong obtuse coriaceous below with often inter- 

 rupted ridges about the middle glabrous or dorsally ciliate, margins narrowly inflexed 

 scabrid, II ovate deeply keeled, III oblong hyaline glabrous paleate, IV linear- 



