190 CLIXIII. GBAMINE^!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Andropogon. 



Stem 2-3 ft., leafy below, very slender above. Leaves disticbous, 12-18 by 

 $ in., exactly linear, coriaceous, flat, smooth, midrib very slender, 11-nerved, 

 margins spinulosely serrulate, and with a few long tubercle-based cilia towards the 

 broad semi-amplexicaul base, midrib beneath serrulate ; lower sheaths in. broad, 

 keeled, armed with scattered tubercle-based hairs. Panicle 7 in., rachis smooth ; 

 branches unequal, those of the lowest whorl the longest, about 1 in., usually with 

 only one spike, tips very shortly bearded. Sessile spikelets pale, coriaceous ; callus 

 -jV~T in. ; awn of II as long as itself or shorter; III shorter than II, narrow, obtuse, 

 2-rierved, ciliate ; IV the linear hyaline 3-nerved base of the awn. Pedicelled spike- 

 lets pale, shining, pedicels very shortly rufous-villous on both margins, excised at the 

 tip in a semicircle ; gl. I thin, tip 2-toothed, nerves strong subequidistant, or the 3 

 lateral on each side subrnarginal, margins narrowly incurved, keels ciliolate from base 

 to tip ; II lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, ciliolate ; III linear-oblong, 2-nerved, 

 ciliate ; IV narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved. I have seen only two specimens of this 

 plant, that in Herb. Wallich, and another sent by Heyne to Eottler named A. asperum 

 in his own handwriting. Very closely allied to A. verticillatus> but differing totally 

 in habit and foliage according to Roxburgh's drawing and description of that plant, 

 and coming from a very different part of India. 



46. A. lancearius, HooTc.f. ; stem tall leafy, leaves narrowly lanceo- 

 late acuminate narrowed towards the base quite glabrous flat smooth 

 midrib beneath quite smooth, sheaths imbricate compressed, panicle narrow 

 of many whorls of short simple smooth erect branches bearing solitary 

 erect spikes, sessile spikelets ^ in., callus short glabrous in front, gl. I 

 glabrous or minutely ciliate at the strongly compressed tip, II keel and 

 sides above the middle more or less hispid, awn of IV If in., pedicelled 

 spikelets 5 in. narrowly lanceolate 7-nerved keels eciliate except at the 

 tip. 



SIKKIM HIMAL ATA ; at the foot of the hills, Punkabaree, Kurz. CHOTA NAGPORE ; 

 Ramghur, Ghat, 1750 ft., Clarke. 



Stem 2-3 ft. or more, leafy upwards. Leaves 12-14 by - in., rather thin, 

 narrowed from below the middle to the base, quite smooth on both surfaces, midrib 

 broad white above, nerves many very slender, margins minutely spinulose ; sheaths 

 keeled, quite glabrous ; ligule a row of very fine short hairs. Panicle 6 in., quite 

 like that of A. asper, from which this plant differs in the leaves, in the callus 

 glabrous in front, in the much more hairy gl. II of the sessile spikelet, and in the 

 eciliate keels of gl. I of the pedicelled spikelets. The Chota Nagpore specimen has 

 been named A. verticillatus by Hackel in a letter to Mr. Clarke, from which it 

 differs in the form of the panicle and glabrous leaves ; its gl. IV of the pedicelled 

 spikelets is 2-fid, but that of the Sikkim plant is lanceolate and aristately acuminate. 

 I have examined a specimen of what may prove to be a form of this plant collected 

 at Gya in Behar (Herb. Hort. Calcutt.j in which gls. II and IV of the pedicelled 

 spikelets are both awned, the awn of the latter (IV) being sometimes as fully de- 

 veloped as that of the sessile spikelet ! The specimen is in too imperfect a condition 

 to be described fully : the gl. I of the pedicelled spikelet is quite glabrous with a 

 2-toothed tip. In all other respects it agrees with A. lancearius. 



47. A. Hamilton!, Hook. f. ; tall, stout, leaves very long linear 

 gradually acuminate smooth above scaberulous beneath margins nearly 

 smooth, panicle large ovoid dense of many long smooth erect branches in 

 many closely approximate whorls each bearing 1-3 spikelets, spikes erect, 

 sessile spikelets in., callus very short villous all round, gl. I minutely 

 hispid at the strongly compressed tip, II keel ciliate close under the long 

 awn, awn of gl. IV 2*- in., pedicelled spikelets in. linear-lanceolate, gl. I 

 7-9-nerved ciliate close to the tip only. Holcus Carar, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 n. 8792 A. Chrysopogon, Wall. Cat. I. c. 



BEHAR ; Monghir, Hamilton. 



