Arthraxon.'] OLXXIII. GRAMINE^J. (J. D. Hooker.) 147 



8. A. microphyllus, Horhst. in Flora, xxxix. (1856) 188; peduncles 

 puberulous beneath the spikes, rachis ot spikes strict, joints = the spike- 

 lets in length or shorter ciliate with long hairs, spikelets y 1 ^-^ in., nerves 

 of. gl. I scaberulous above the middle tip 2-toothed or 2-aristulate, II 

 acuminate or awned, IV obtusely 2-toothed, awn very slender. Sack. 

 Monoqr. Androp. 353. A. lancifolius, microphyllus, & minor, Sochst. 

 in Flora xxxix. (1856) 188. Batratherum molle, Nees & Am. in Mjg. 

 Nat. Hist. 1. c. 181 ; Wight Cat. n. 1686 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 174. 

 B. Schimperi, Nees ex Sochst. 1. c. 177. Pleuroplitis lancifolia, micro- 

 phylla & Schimperi, Regel in Bull. Acad. Petersb. x. (1866) 747-756. 

 Lucaea Schimperi, Steud. Syn. Gram. 414. Andropogon microphyllus, 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. (1833) 275. A. lancifolius, Trin. 

 I c. 271 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368 ; Trim. Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108. A. miner, 

 Hoclist. 1. c. 188. A. molle, Dutbie Grass. N. W. Ind. 17. A. muralis, Herb. 

 Ham. ex Wall. Cat. n. 8828. A. multicaulis, Steud. 1. c. 383. Psilopogon 

 Schimperi, Hochst. ex A. Rick. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 447. Ps. Figaivi, 

 Figar. Ind. Sem. Hort. Gen. (1852), in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. III. xix. (1863) 

 370. PPogonatherum tenue, Edgew. in-Joum. As. Soc. Beng. (1853) Ibl. 

 Batratherum, Wall. Cat. n. 8828. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir, alt. 4-5000 ft. to Sikkim, alt. 5-11,000 

 ft. ; the KHASIA HILLS and southwd. to the NILGHIRIS. BURMA, Collett. CEYLON, 

 Thwaites. DISTRIB. Tonkin, Afr. trop. 



Except in the smaller size, hairy peduncles and rachis of the shorter spikes, small 

 spikelets, and toothed tip of gl. I, there is little to distinguish this from some of 

 the states of A. ciliaris. Hackel indeed says that these are very closely allied. 



Sect. II. TRICHATHERTJM, Hack. Joints of rachis of spike obliquely 

 truncate. Awn 10 in. long, capillary, flexuous. 



9. A. jubatus, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 358. 



The CONCAN ? Stocks. 



Annual, decumbent, glabrous ; stems slender, ascending, branching, 6-12 in. long. 

 Leaves 1-2 by 4-3 in., lanceolate from a convolute amplexicaul base, acuminate, 

 flat, flaccid, pubescent or villous ; sheaths lax, pubescent, upper spathiform leafless ; 

 ligule short. Floral spathes 1-2J in., linear-lanceolate, membranous, green, -n- 

 closing the spikes, pubescent. Spikes binate on a common peduncle, a subsessile 

 and a pedicelled, pedicel slender pubescent, fragile; joints about 4, half as long as 

 the spikelet, and shorter pedicels of upper spikelec clavate, compressed, pecfcinati'Iy 

 ciliate. Spikelets binate, a sessile and pedicelled at each joint, and a terminal 

 male. Sessile spikelets % in., membranous, linear-lanceolate, 2-nerved, deeply in- 

 flexed in the middle line, tip- 2-mucronate, margins hyaline ; II a.s long, linear- 

 lanceolate, laterally compressed, 1-nerved, keel scabrid ; III shorter, linear, nerveless,, 

 glabrous; IV = III, lanceolate acute, glabrous, with the immensely long awn, 

 attached to its base, palea 0. Pedicelled spikelets about % in., awnless. 



UNDETERMINABLE SPECIES. 



BATRATHERUM, Wall. Cat. 8827 (Andropogon minutissimus, Herb. Hey/ne) ta 

 a dwarf or very immature state and unrecognizable. 



41. ISCHNOCHLOA, Hook. f. 



(Genus not in the clavis, p. 4.) 



A small, slender, straggling, flaccid, leafy annual. Leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acute at both ends. Spikes solitary, simple, shortly exserted 

 from the uppermost leaf-sheaths; rachis very slender, linear, flattened, 



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