Andropcgon.~\ CLXXIII. GHAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) % 167 



have seen but one specimen, it is allied to A. impressus, but is a much stouter plant, 

 3-4 ft. high. 



5. A. hirtiflorus, EuntTi Revis. Gram. ii. 569, t. 198, Enum. PL i. 

 489 ; erect, stiff, leaves linear, rigid, spathes long-peduncled, spike 2-5 in. 

 glabrous or nearly so, sessile ppikelets -* in. narrowly lanceolate. A. 

 Pseudograyia, Steud. Syn. Gram. 365 ; .Hack. Monogr. Androp. 370. A. 

 zeylanicus, Am. ex Benth. Fl. Hongk. 423 ; Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 368 ; 

 Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 107. A. semiberbis, Kunth Enum. I. c. Rottboellia 

 sanguinea, Retz. Obs. iii. 25. PPollinia fulta, Desv. Opusc. 69; Hack. 

 I. c. 392. Thelepogon sanguineus, Sprang. Syst. i. 299. Scbizachyriuon 

 zeylanicam, Am. I. c. S. hirtiflorum and semiberbe, Nees. Fl. Afr. 

 Austr. 334, 336. 



KHASIA HILLS, alt. 4-5000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T., Clarice. BURMA, Kurz. 

 CENTRAL PROVINCES, alt. 3-4000 ft. CEYLON. DISTRIB. Tonkin, China, Mada- 

 gascar, Trop. and S. Africa and America. 



Perennial. Stems tufted, 14 ft., simple or sparingly branched upwards, as 

 thick as a crow-quill or less, smooth, shining. Leaves chiefly radical, 2-6 in. by 

 | in., obtuse acute or acuminate; sheath compressed. Spathes 1-2 in., linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate. Spike stout, very narrow, subterete ; rachis stout, shining, 

 joints shorter than the sessile spikelets, outer or both margins ciliolate, tip hollowed 

 strongly toothed. Sessile spikelets ^ in., very narrow, half sunk in the concave 

 faces of the joints; gl. I narrowly lanceolate, bicuspidate, dorsally rounded, faintly 

 5-nerved ; II lanceolate, acuminate, with a gibbous base, and a narrow ciliate dorsal 

 wing above the middle ; III linear-oblong, acute, fimbriate ; IV lobes' narrow, 

 acuminate, awn about in. Pedicelled spikelets, gl. I flat, subulate, awned, margins 

 inflexed; II short, oblong. Dr. Stapf has identified the Indian A. Pseudograyia 

 with its American and African species cited above, of which I have not given all the 

 synonyms, which will be found in Hackel's Monograph. . 



Subgen. II. DICTOMIS, Hack. Spikes solitary ; peduncle in the axil of 

 a spathiform leai'-sheath, joints and pedicels bucciniform, mouths toothed. 

 Sessile spikelets laterally compressed, callus short ; gl. I accumbent, 

 keeled, II much broader long-awned; IV 2-toothed, awned in the sinus. 

 Pedicelled spikelet twice as long and broad as the sessile and concealing it. 



6. A. fastig-iatus* Sw. Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 26, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 207 ; 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 393 ; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 559. A. diatherus, 

 Hoclist. in Schimp. PI. Abyss, n. 2013 (non Steud.}. A. Hochstetteri, 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 384. Diectomis fastigiat^, H. B. fy K. Nov. Gen. & 

 Sp. i. t. 64 (excl. Syn. Beauv.) ; .Kunth in Mem. Mus. Par. ii. (1815) 69 ; 

 Nees Agrost. Bras. 340 (non Beauv.) ; Hack, in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. II. 303. 

 Pollinia fastigiata, Spreng. Pugill. ii. 13. Heteropogon Hochstetteri, 

 Anderss. in Schwewf. Beitr. Fl. JEthiop. 310. 



BE'JAR ; near Gya and Chota Nagpore, Clarke, DutJiie. TENASSERIM, Heifer. 

 DISTRIB. Tonkin, China, Afr. and Ainer. trop. 



Perennial. Stem erect 6 in. to 3 ft., or decumbent below and fastigiately branched 

 upwards, leafy. Leaves 3-12 in., narrowly linear, acuminate, scabrid j lignle elon- 

 gate, ac-ute. Spathes 2-3 in., linear-lanceolate, often very slender ; peduncle variable, 

 tip cupular. Spikes solitary, 1-2 in., fragile, joints much shorter than the spikelets^ 

 villous with white hairs, 'tip broad strongly toothed. Sessile spikelet - - in., 

 pbloug ; callus hairs = | the spikelets ; gl. I linear-lanceolate, bicuspidate and keeled, 

 margins thickened, ciliate towards the top ; II shorter, cymbiform, 2-fid, awned 

 between the short obtuse lobes, dorsally keeled and ciliate above, awn much longer 

 U"" ll^ spikelets ; III linear-oblong, margins ciliate; IV cymbiform, 2~toothed, 

 a^stout dorsal awn from below the tip ; palea minute, hvaliue. Pedictll&d 



