142 CLXXIII. GRAMINEJJ. (J, D. Hooker.) [Pogonatherum. 



Throughout INDIA, extending to the Malay Peninsula, usually at lower elevations 

 and in hotter places than P. saccharoideum. DISTBIB. Affghan, China, Malaya, N. 

 Hebrides. 



- A different looking plant from the common form of P. saccharoideum, with paler 

 more flexuous squarrose awns, much smaller spikeleta, and the hairs of the callus 

 longer than the callus, but intermediates occur, and I could have followed Hackel in 

 uniting them had he included the following. 



3. P. rufo-barbatum, Griff. Notul. iii. 81, Ic. PL Asiat. t. 145, 

 f. 11 ; spikelets -| in., gl. I broadly 2-lobed, III villous above the middle, 

 IY and its palea ciliate, stamens 2. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. P. majus, 

 Griseb. in Goett. Nadir. (1868) 92. 



KHASIA HILLS ; by streams, alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Stem 10-24 in. ; nodes glabrous. Leaves 2-4 in., sometimes in. broad. Spikes 

 1-2^ in. ; hairs of callus shorter than the spikelet ; gl. I, 2-lobed but hardly 2- 

 auricled (as described by Hackel). Only, I think, a large form of saccharoideum 

 growing in wet places. 



40. APOCOPXS, Nees. 



Annual or perennial grasses. Leaves short. Spikelets 2-fld. (lower 

 fl. bisexual,, upper fern.) solitary or the upper reduced to a pedicel, dis- 

 tichously imbricate on solitary or digitate articulate spikes, dorsally com- 

 pressed. Glumes 4, I> broad, cuneiform, coriaceous, many-nerved, tip 

 rounded ciliate ; II thinner, truncate, 2-keeled ; III narrow, hyaline, 

 paleate ; IY hyaline, entire or 2-fid, awned or reduced to an awn dilated 

 at the base ; palea very short, convolute, truncate, tip ciliate, or 0. Lodi- 

 cules 0. Stamens 2-3. Styles very short, stigmas long. Grain terete, 

 free. Species 3-4, Eastern Asiatic. 



1. A. Hoyleanus, Nees in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. (1894), et in Ann. Sf 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. (1841) 220; perennial, gl. IY oblong 2-fid, awn short 

 or 0. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 257 ; Duthie Grass. N. W Ind. 16. Ischas- 

 mum paleaceum, Trin.in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. 6, ii. (1833) 293; Sp. 

 Gram. Ic. t. 333. Andropogon paleaceus & himalayensis, Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. i. 376, 377. Ischsemum denticulatum, Herb. Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 

 8857. Wall. Cat. n. 8843. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-4000 ft., from Kumaon to Bhotan. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 4000 ft. MUNNEPORE, alt. 4-5000 ft., Watt. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Stem erect, 10-24 in., usually simple. Leaves 2-4 in., narrowly lanceolate, 

 acuminate, and sheaths glabrous or softly hairy. Peduncle long, slender ; spikes 

 1-2, rarely 3, erect, 1-1| in. ; rachis rusty -villous, brittle. Spikelets about | in., 

 much longer than the joints ; gl. I truncate, dark red-brown with a broad yellow 

 tip ; IV awn very slender, included or if exserted not twice the length of the 

 spikelet. 



2. A. Wierhtii, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 377; annual, gl. IY 



363, et in Benth. Fl Hongk. 

 Trim. Cat. Zeyl. PI. 107. Amblyachyrum mangalorense, Hochst. ex 

 Hohenack. PI. Ind. Or. n. 231 & in Flora, xxxix. (1856) 26. I 



BEHAR, CENTBAL INDIA, throughout the DECCAN PENINSULA, BURMA, and 



CEYLON. 



