174 CLXXIII. QRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon. 



Drier parts of INDIA; from the Panjab to Burma, and southward to CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Westwards to Sicily ; trop. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Very variable in habit and stature, rarely 12 in. high, tufted, annual or perennial ; 

 stem sometimes creeping and rooting 1 , usually ascending from a leafy base, slender, 

 even filiform ; nodes sometimes densely bearded. Leaves 2-12 by -^g in., acute or 

 acuminate, glabrous except at the ciliate base, rarely hairy, surfaces scaberulous, 

 dull green j sheath hardly compressed, glabrous or villous ; ligule short, membranous, 

 truncate. Spikes pale or purplish ; joints and pedicels very slender = ^ the sessile 

 spikelet ; gl. I of sessile spikelet subacute, coriaceous; II 1-3-nerved ; III-Hnear- 

 oblong, obtuse, glabrous ; IV, awn -f in., capillary, base slightly dilated ; palea 

 minute or 0. Pedicelled spikelets like the sessile, male or neuter ; gl. I 7-13-nerved, 

 glabrous, pitted or not, keels ciliolate throughout their length ; II lanceolate, 5- 

 nerved, ciliate ; III linear-oblong, glabrous ; IV short or 0. Lisboa describes the 

 spikelets as aromatic when crushed. Hackel has the following Indian varieties, all 

 of which, except longifolius, are united by various intermediates. 



o. genuinus ; gl. I thin not shining more or less villous below the middle, spikes 

 3-9. Common. 



. Wightii ; sheaths villous, nodes long bearded, spikes about 15. " Panvanasum," 

 Wight Cat. n. 1696. 



e. longifolius ; tall, erect, stout from a woody stock, 2-4 ft. high, nodes densely 

 bearded, leaves 12-18 by \ in. hairy, sheaths hirsute, lower spikes branched, spikelets 

 quite glabrous, gl. I of lower spikelet coriaceous. A. Arnottianus, Nees in Wight 

 Cat. n. 2338. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8803. Ceylon ? Wight. A. very different 

 looking plant from the other forms of A. pertusus. 



r).,insculptus; sheaths glabrous, gl. I of sessile spikelets 1-2-pitted truncate, 

 keels longer ciliate. A. insculptus, A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 458. A. bifoveolatus 

 & subunifoveolatus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 380. Not uncommon. 



19. A; Foulkesii, Hook./.-, stem erect or ascending very slender, 

 nodes glabrous, leaves narrowly linear, sheaths terete, spikes 3-6 1-1^ in. 

 long digitately fascicled long-stipitate slender purplish, joints and pedicels 

 shortly ciliate, sessile spikelets &- in. oblong-lanceolate dorsally de- 

 pressed in the middle line imperforate 7-nerved glabrous keels pectinately 

 ciliate. 



NILGHTRI HILLS, Wight ; Kaity, Foulkes ; Pykora, King. 



Perennial. Stem 12-18 in. Leaves 6-10 by |- in., finely acuminate, glabrous 

 or hispid on both surfaces with spreading hairs, midrib very strong; sheath glabrous, 

 mouth and ligule villous with long hairs. Spikes 1-H i-> special peduncles |-1 in., 

 very slender, axils bearded with long soft hairs ; joints and pedicels slender, flat with 

 thickened margins and diaphanous centre. Sessile spikelets -*- 1 in., tip 2-toothed, 

 callus bearded ; gl. I dorsally flattened or convex, nerves obscure or distinct ; II 

 acuminate, 3-nerved, keel scaberulous above, margins ciliate ; III shorter, lanceolate, 

 nerveless; IV awn -- in., capillary, palea 0. Pedicelled spikelet longer and 

 narrower than the sessile; gl. I strongly 9-nerved. Resembles A. Ischcemum, 

 differing in the much shorter hairs of the joints and pedicels and glabrous spikelets. 



20. A. concanensis, Hook. f. ; slender, erect, leafy, leaves very 

 narrow sheaths terete, nodes glabrous, spikes 5-8 2-2| in. long loosely 

 fascicled long-stipitate slender flexuous pale, joints and pedicels slender 

 compressed not deeply sulcate sparsely shortly ciliate, spikelets ^ in. 

 ovate- or oblong-lanceolate narrowly truncate glabrous 7-nerved keels very 

 shortly ciliate. 



BOMBAY, Woodroio (Herb. Bomb. n. 28). 



Perennial. Stems many from a nodose stock, 28-24 in., firm, smooth, terete, 

 leafy. Leaves 8-10 by T V- in., finely acuminate, smooth on both surfaces; sheaths. 



