168 CLXXIII. GRAMINE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) \Andr opogoti' 



spikelets neuter ; gl. I ovate-lanceolate, twisted, acuminate, 2 cuspidate and awned, 

 ciliate, green, many-nerved; II much smaller, thin, acuminate, awned, III still 

 smaller, oblong, hyaline. I have examined spikelets of the type of Homceatherum 

 chinense, Nees in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. 239, which is certainly not 

 Androp. apricus, as supposed by Hackel, but very close to A. fastigiatus, if not the 

 same. 



Subgen. III. HYPOGYNITJM, Sack. Spikes solitary, peduncled in tbe 

 axil of a spu.thiform leaf-sheath; joints and pedicels slender, tops 

 obliquely truncate. Sessile spikelets dorsally compressed ; gl. I with 

 inflexed or involute keeled margins ; II ke led, awnless ; III hyaline or 

 ; IV a simple awn (in the Indian species). Pedicelled spikelets like 

 the sessile. 



Hackel's section Pseudanthistiria forms one of the most distinct genera of Andro- 

 pogonece, with characters of inflorescence and spikelets totally at variance with his 

 characters of Hypogyniutn. He however observes its affinity with Anthistiria, near 

 to which genus I place it. 



7. A. foveolatus, Del. PL Egypt. 16*, t. 8, f. 2 ; densely tufted, basal 

 sheaths silkily villous, spikes 3-6 elongate erect, gl. I of sessile spikelet 

 smooth with usually a deep dorsal pit. Kunili Enum. Pl.i. 490; Hack. 

 Monogr. Androp. 402; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 20, Fodd. Grass. N. 

 Ind. 34, t. 21 ; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab. PI. 176. A. strictus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 i. 260. A. Orthos, Schuli. Mant.ii. 455. A. monostachyus, Spreng. Pugill. 

 ii. 9. A. ramosus, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8802. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. 

 8802. 



Drier parts of INDIA, from the Panjab and Sind to Bengal, CHOTA NAG PORE, 

 CKNTRAL PROVINCES, CIRCARS and COROMANDEL. DISTRIB. Westwards to the 

 Cape de Vevd Islds. 



Stem 1-2 ft., simple or subfastigiately branched above, as thick as a sparrow's 

 quill ; nodes sparingly bearded. Leaves very narrow, sometimes almost filiform, 

 rigid, scabernlous beneath, sheaths shorter than the internodes, scabrous or 

 glabrous; ligule short, truncate, hyaline, ciliolate. Spikes 1-1^ in.; peduncles 

 capillary, erect, usually far exserted beyond the very slender ppathe ; joints and 

 pedicels slender, villous. Sessile and pedicelled spikelets subequal %- in., linear- 

 oblong, subacute, purplish, glabrous except the shortly villous callus, shining; gl. I 

 flat, 4-7 -nerved, keels scabrid ; II as long, 3-nerved, acute ; III much shorter, 

 glabrous, nerveless ; IV awn ^- in. long, very faintly margined towards the base. 

 Pedicelled spikelet rufous or purplish, neuter ; gls. 2, I subacute, dorsally pitted or 

 not, keels scabrid, 5-nerved, glabrous j II linear-lanctolate, acute, 3-nerved. 



8. A. tuberculatus? Hack. Monogr. Androp. 404 ; tall, stout, basal 

 sheaths glabrous, spikes solitary long-peduncled erect, gl. I of sessile 

 spikelet lanceolate keels and nerves tubercled not pitted. 



- CENTRAL PROVINCES; in the Khandua and Betul districts, Duthie; Asinagarh, 

 Kuntze. 



Stem 4-6 ft., stout, stiff, pale yellow, shining, paniculately branched, nodes 

 glabrous. Leaves 1-2 ft. by in., rather rigid, glaucous, strongly closely nerved, 

 setaceously acuminate, base narrowed, scabrid, midrib very broad ; sheath quite 

 smooth ; ligule large, membranous, auricled. Spikes 1-lf in. Panicle leafy ; 

 spathes very narrow, scabrid with tubercle-based hairs ; peduncle 2-4 in., strict, 

 pcabrid ; joints and pedicels very slender, ciliate with long hairs. Sessile spikelets 

 i in., linear-lanceolate, callus shortly bearded; gl. I lanceolate, tip narrowly 

 truncate, dorsally flat, 3-7-nerved, margins narrowly inflexed, keels and nerves 

 tubcreulate ; II membranous, lanceolate, acute, 1-nerved, ciliate ; III linear, acute, 



