Andropogon.] CLXXIII. GEAMINE^S. (J. D. Hooker.) 189 



Plains and lower hills of INDIA, from Kumaon to Sikkim in the Himalaya, the 

 Khasia Hills and southward to the Nicobar Islds. and CEYLON. DISTRIB', Trop. 

 Asia, Australia, and Polynesia. 



Stem woody leafy and extensively creeping below, then erect, 1-2 ft., slender. 

 Leaves densely tufted, 1-5 by g- in., flat, obtuse or acute, often undulate, glaucous, 

 glabrous, margins spinulose ; sheath terete ; ligule a very narrow ciliate membrane. 

 Panicle 1-3 in., pale or purplish ; branches capillary, scaberulous or villous below 

 the spikelets, tips obliquely truncate. Sessile spikelets % in. ; callus nearly as long 

 as the glumes, acicular, shortly bearded ; gl. I chartaceous, obscurely 2-3-nerved or 

 nerveless ; IT lanceolate, acuminate or aristulate, 1-nerved ; III linear-oblong, 2- 

 nerved ; IV linear, acuminate ; awn -\ in., scabrid ; palea small, linear, obtuse, 

 glabrous, nerveless. Pedicelled spikelets purple, much longer and narrower than 

 the sessile; pedicels slender, scaberulous ; gl. I subulate-lanceolate, aristulate, 3-nerved, 

 ciliate ; III and IV shorter, ciliate ; palea minute, cuspidate. . 



ft Pedicels of upper spikelets villous with rusty rarely pale hairs. 



Glume I of pedicelled spikelets long-owned^ II not or very shortly 

 awned. 



44. A. verticillatus, Roxb. Fl Ind. i. 263; tall, stout, leafy, leaves 

 long very hairy, panicle broad of many whorls of many long simple smooth 

 spreading^ arching branches terminated by solitary drooping spikelets, 

 sessile spikelets J in., callus rather long glabrous in front, gl. I setulose 

 beneath the tip only strongly compressed above, II glabrous keel ciliate 

 beneath the long awn, awn of IV 1 i n -> pedicelled spikelets in. narrowly 

 lanceolate glabrous 5-nerved keels ciliate at the tip only. Kuntli Enum. 

 PI. i. 506 ; Sack. Monogr. Androp. 555. Chrysopogon verticillatus, Trin. 

 ex Steud. Norn. Ed. II. i. 360. 



Mountainous Regions (of the N. Circars probably), Roxburgh. 



Root woody, perennial. Stem 4-6 ft., terete, solid towards the base, smooth, as 

 thick as a small goose-quill. Leaves approximate, 18 by in., particularly hairy on 

 the inside towards the base, margins spinulose. Panicle conical, lax, 8-10 in. ; 

 branches 2-3 in. Spikes narrow, pale. Sessile spikelets about twice as long as the 

 pedicels ; callus -^ in. long ; gl. I 4-nerved, tip hyaline, acute ; II narrow, tip 2-fid, 

 awn as long as itself; III oblong, obtuse, margins retrosely ciliate ; IV the very 

 narrow 3-nerved hyaline base of the awn, tip obscurely 2-lobed. Pedicelled spike- 

 lets pale, shining, pedicels abruptly truncate rather laxly ciliate on the margins and 

 dorsally ; gl. I with the 2 lateral nerves nearer the margin, awn longer than itself; 

 II lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, 3-nerved; III very narrow, ciliate, 2-nerved; IV 

 linear, 1-nerved, 2-fid. I have seen only a single very slender leafless specimen of 

 what I take to be Roxburgh's plant, bearing the name in Arnott's handwriting on a 

 ticket with Roxburgh's name in that botanist's writing in the corner. The de- 

 scription of the habit, leaves, &c., is taken from Roxburgh. Hackel, who does 

 the same, describes the spikelets from a specimen also named by Arnott, and sent 

 to him from Nees' Herbarium. 



45. A. asper, Heyne in Herb. Bottler (asperum) ; leaves broadly 

 linear acute base cordate midrib beneath spinulose, sheaths broad 

 compressed laxly hirsute, panicle narrow of many whorls of short simple 

 smooth erect branches bearing solitary rarely 2 erect spikes, sessile 

 spikelets in., callus long villous all round, gl. I hispid beneath the tip 

 strongly compressed above, II keel and sides more or less hispid above the 

 middle, awn of IV 1| 2 in., pedicelled spikelets in. narrowly lanceolate 

 7-nerved keels ciliate. Chrysopogou asper, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8784. 



MADRAS ; Pulicat Hills, Heyne. 



