Andropogon.] cLixiri. QRIMINEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 179 



Androp. 488 ; Lisboa tti Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. (1889), vi. (1891) 69. 

 A. alternans, Presl RelifHsenk. I 342 ; Kunth Enum. I. c. 502. A. coeru : 

 lescens, Kunth I.e. 504. A. capilliflorus, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 58. 



A. parvispica, Steud. 1. c. $97. A. serratus, Miq. Prolus. Fl. Jap. i. 192. 

 Anatherum parviflorum, Spreng. Syst. i. 290. ChryBOpogon violascens, 

 Trin. in Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. ii. (1893) 319. Sorghum parviflorum, 

 Beauv. exRoem. &f Sch. Syst. ii. 840. Rhaphis coerulescens, Desv. Opusc. 69. 



B. microstachya, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. 397. Holcus coerulescens, Gaud, in 

 Freyc. Voy. Bot. 411, t. 27. H. parviflorus, Br. Prodr. 199. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, from the Ravi to Kumaon, alt. 4-6000 ft. KHASIA 

 HILLS, alt. 5000 ft., Clarke. The NILGHIRI, CONCAN and DECCAN HILLS. 

 DISTRIB. E. Asia and Malaya, Australia, S. Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as a crow-quill or thicker, terete, nodes more or less 

 bearded. Leaves 6-12 by -5 in., setaceously acuminate, flat, more or less hairy 

 with tubercle-based hairs, surfaces and margins scabernlous, base rounded ; sheaths 

 tight ; ligule short, truncate. Panicle 2-6 in., oblong or pyramidal ; rachis and 

 branches spreading, perfectly smooth, fiexuous. Spikes \-\ in., pale yellow violet or 

 red-brown, joints and pedicels slender often ciliate on one margin only. Spikelets 

 small, callus stellately bearded ; gl. I narrowly truncate, 4-6-nerved, scaberulous in 

 all the specimens I have examined ; margins narrowly inflexed ; II lanceolate, 

 acuminate or mucronate, scaberulous, 1-3-nerved ; III short, obtuse, eciliate, nerve- 

 less ; IV awn -f in. Pedicelled spikelets male, callus naked ; gl. I oblong, 

 7-nerved, margins hardly inflexed ; II oblong, obtuse, 3-5-nerved ; III oblong, 

 hyaline ; IV narrow, awnless. Spikes often reduced to 3 spikelets, a sessile and 2 

 pedicelled males. I have not cited Hackel's synonymy and authorities for the non- 

 Indian forms with more spikelets in each spike. It is very difficult to distinguish 

 A. micranthus from small forms of A. assimilis. I have seen no specimens from 

 Lisboa. 



Var. villosulus, Hack. 1. c. 490 ; usually much stouter, sheaths bearded at the 

 nodes and leaves hispidly hairy, gl. I of sessile spikelets often hispidulous. A. 

 villosulus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 397; Lisboa in Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. (1891) 69 

 (villosus). Chrysopogon villosulus, Nees ex Duthi^ Grass. N. W. Ind. 23 (excl. 

 some Syns.). C. montanus, Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 40. Rhaphis villosula, 

 Nees ex Steud. 1. c. Kumaon, Royle, &c. Rajputana, Mt. Aboo, Duthie. Behar, on 

 Parusnath, J. D. H., &c. Khasia Hills, Griffith. 



30. A. assimilis, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. 58; Syn. Gram. 397; 

 puffruticose, fastigiately branched from a decumbent base, leafy, leaves 

 linear-lanceolate much narrowed to the base, lower sheaths open, branches 

 of pyramidal panicle capillary at length widely spreading, joints and 

 pedicels shortly ciliate, sessile spikelets yV~8 in., gl. I oblong or linear- 

 oblong narrowly truncate glabrous or silkily villous below the middle 

 2-5-nerved between the shortly pectinately ciliate keels. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. iii.489. A. montanus, Benth.Fl. Hongk. 423 (excl. Syn.~) Hack. Monogr. 

 Androp. 491 (excl. Syn.] ; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc.vi. (1891) 

 203. A. capillaceus, Wall. mss. A. glaucopsis & subrepens, Steud. I. c. 

 Chrysopogon pictus, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 5, v. (1866) 252. C. 

 glaucopsis, Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 22. Ehaphis repens, Nees ex Steud. 

 I. c. Chrysopogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8781, 8786, 8787, 8790. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to Sikkim, ascending to 500 ft. The 

 KHASIA and MUNNEPORE HILLS. BEHAR ; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 fb. BURMA, 

 Wallich. RAJPOOTANA, Duthie. The DECCAN and CENTRAL INDIA, King, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Java, China, Japan. 



Stems 6 to probably 12 ft. or more; as thick as a goose-quill at the base, hard, 

 shining, sometimes proliferously branched here and there, nodes more or less bearded, 



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