Andropogon.] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 195 



panicle oblong subsecund dense-fid, very pale, branches many short in 

 many closely approximate whorls smooth, sessile spikelets i in., callus 

 long obtuse bearded at the very base only with long fulvous hairs, gl. I 

 obtuse glabrous, keel ciliate towards the tip, II not awned keel glabrous 

 or ciliate, awn of IY - in. nearly straight pale, pedicelled spikelets 

 narrowly lanceolate acuminate glabrous 7-nerved eciliate not awned, 

 pedicels naked villous at the tip only. A. Aucheri, var. polyphyllus, Hack, 

 in Herb. Duthie. 



CENTRAL PROVINCES ; Khandua, Chanda, and Jubbulpore districts, by the 

 Nerbudda and Indravati rivers, &c., Duthie. 



Stem 2-3 ft., stiff, as thick as a crow-quill or more. Leaves crowded, or not, 

 6-10 by T \-i in., pale glaucous-green and smooth on both surfaces, midrib and 

 nerves very slender, margins minutely scaberulous ; sheaths appressed, hard. 

 Panicle 4-5 in.; branches ^-^ in., very unequal ; peduncle slender, quite glabrous. 

 Spikes drooping, white or pale purplish. Glumes as in A. monticola* Pedicelled 

 spikelets i-ather longer than the sessile ; pedicels = about ? the sessile spikelets. 

 Habit, foliage and secund panicle very unlike A. monticola^ and remarkable for the 

 stout naked callus about ^ in. long with a long-bearded base, and the naked 

 pedicels villous at the tip only with erect fulvous hairs half as long as the spikelets. 

 It differs from Aucheri, in the tall habit, long-glabrous glaucous foliage, glabrous 

 peduncle and branches of the panicle, callus, pedicels, awnless pedicelled spikelets, 

 and the very short awn of gl. IV of the sessile spikelet. 



55. A. Aucheri, BOISB. Diagn. Ser. I. v. 7; densely tufted, basal 

 sheaths silky, leaves short linear pubescent, sheaths terete very pale silky 

 peduncle pubescent below the oblong panicle, branches in approximate 

 whorls short very unequal scaberulouSj sessile spikelets ^ ^ in. callus long 

 villous all over with long pale silky hairs, gl. I glabrous or keel and tip 

 ciliate, keel of II hirsute, awn of IV f-1 in. pale, pedicelled spikelets longer 

 than the sessile narrowly lanceolate 5-7-nerved, keels ciliate and with a long 

 ciliate awn, pedicels =a the sessile spikelet silkily villous. A. Auoheri, 

 a. genuinus, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 560. Chrysopogon ciliolatua |8. Aucheri, 

 JBoiss. Fl. Orient, v. 458. 



SCIND ; near Kurrachee, Stocks. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, N. Africa. 



Stem 6-18 in., simple or sparingly branched, base thickened, leafy. Leaves 2-4 

 by T V- in., sometimes undulate, acute or acuminate, pale green, often ciliute 

 towards the base, margins scaberulous ; sheath very pale. Panicle 2-3 in., erect, 

 long-peduncled, rachis scabrid. Spikes usually crowded, rarely biuate on a branch. 

 Sessile spikelets ; callus obtuse $ gl. I compressed, with sometimes long terminal 

 bristles ; II awned or not, awn hirsutely ciliate ; III and IV as in A. monticola. 

 Pedicelled spikelets -% in., pedicels silkily villous from base to apex ; gl. I sparsely 

 ciliate dorsally, and with very long cilia on the keels towards the tip, awn pale 

 hirsute. I have confined the description to the Scind plants. Hackel describes the 

 species, which extends to Persia, Arabia, Morocco, and S. Africa as extraordinarily 

 variable, no two specimens agreeing in all points, and the spikelets varying in the 

 same specimen. These remarks would probably apply to all the allied species of 

 Chysopogon, in whose stability I have no confidence. 



Subgen. IX. DICHANTHITTM, Hack. Spikes digitate, rarely solitary or 

 panicled, subsessile or stipitate on the peduncle, joints many and pedicels 

 linear filiform dorsally flat compressed ; lower 1-4 pairs of spikelets 

 homogamous (except sometimes in A. annulatus) male or neuter. Sessile 

 spikelets dorsally compressed; gl. I with the margins usually inflexed and 



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