Andropogon.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 197 



in Hook. # Arn. Bot. Seech. Voy. 243 (excl. Syn. Roxb.}. A. scandens, 

 Eoxb. 1. c. 258 ; Kunth I. c. 498 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 238 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 301 ; Duthie i.e. 21. Lepeocercis annulata, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 

 98. Andropogon, Wall. Cat. n. 8810 C. B. G. 



Throughout the hills and plains of INDIA, from Kashmir westward to Bengal and 

 southward (not in Ceylon). DISTEIB. Trop. Africa, China, Australia, Pacific. 



Stems usually woody at the base with strong wiry roots and tufted leaves, then 

 geniculately ascending, 636 in. ; nodes bearded or not. Leaves 3-12 in., rigid, 

 glaucous, glabrous or hairy above with tubercle-based hairs, margins scabrid ; sheath 

 bearded at the tip; ligule oblong, obtuse. Spikes 1-2^ in., straight or flexuous, 

 usually inclined, pinkish or nearly white, joints and pedicels = the spikelets, slender, 

 rigid, margins shortly ciliate. Spikelets very variable in size, closely imbricating ; 

 callus shortly bearded ; gl. I thin, nerves strong or faint, not reaching the tip ; II 

 lanceolate, 3-nerved, glabrous or ciliolate; III narrow, glabrous; IV awn f-1 in., 

 column scabrid. Pedicelled spikelets about = the sessile ; gl. I obtuse or acute, 

 7-11 -nerved, keels bristly ; II narrower, 3-nerved; III ciliate; IV minute or 0. 

 A very common Indian grass, of which Hackel distinguishes three Indian varieties, 

 to which I have added a fourth : 



Var. genuinus ; spikes 3-10, gl. I of sessile spikelets beset with rigid tubercle- 

 based hairs, of pedicelled dorsally hairy all over. 



Var. decalvatus ; gl. I of sessile spikelets glabrous, of pedicelled often papillose. 



Var. Bladhii ; spikes many, lower long-stipitate, gl. I of sessile spikelets glabrous 

 or loosely hairy. 



Var. papillosus; spikes 3-8 decurved, gl. I of sessile spikelets with a transverse 

 row of tubercle-based hairs below the tip. A. papillosus, Hochst. ex A., Rich. Tent. 

 Fl. Abyss, ii. 457 ; Hack. I c. 573. Behar on Parusnath, Clarke. Afr! trop. 



58. A. Clarkei, Hack, in CEsterr. Bot. ZeitscJir. xli, (1891)49;. annual, 

 very slender, much branched, leaves 2-4 in. linear-lanceolate, spikes 

 solitary on capillary peduncles from spathiform sheaths, joints and pedicels 

 slender silkily villous sulcate, spikelets subdistichous, sessile silk.ily villous 

 with white hairs, gl. I elliptic-oblong flat truncate 2-toothed, keels 

 scaberulous, IV a simple awn, g\. I of pedicelled spikelets rather larger 

 narrower red-brown glabrous. 



BEHAR ; on Parusnath, alt, 4200 ft,, Olarke. 



Stems 12-18 in., leafy, nodes bearded. Leaves flat, finely acuminate, base con- 

 tracted, quite smooth, nerves very slender ; sheaths long, slightly tumid, mouth 

 contracted ; ligule of hairs. Spikes f-1 in. long, flattened, jpints and pedicels 

 sulcate, slender. Spikelets 6-8 pairs; two lowest p^iirs neuter. Sessile spikelets 

 % in. ; callus very short ; gl, I thinly chartaceous, 7-nerved, margins narrowly 

 inflexed; II narrowly cymbiform, acuminate, 3-nerved, margins ciliate ; III oblocg, 

 obtuse, hyaline, ciliate; IV the slender awn |-1 in. long. Pedicelled spikelets 

 -|- in., dark brown; gl. I obtuse or emarginate, many-nerved; II 3-nerved; III 

 smaller. The white sessile and dark pedicelled spikelets are a marked feature. 



5.9. A. arraatus, ILook. f. ; annual, tufted, erect, leaves linear 

 copiously hairy, spikes 2-5 subdigitate long-peduncled, joints and pedicels 

 slender not grooved, spikelets 10-20 pairs, gl I of sessile oblong obtuse 

 Sometimes alveolate dorsally densely silky below the middle keels ciliate, 

 IV a simple awn, gl. I of pedicelled spikelet armed with spreading sub- 

 murginal tubercle- based bristles twice or thrice its own length. 



The CONCAN, Stocks. 



Stems 12-18 in., as thick as a sparrow's quill, simple or branched above ; nodes 

 bearded. Leaves 4-6 by -. in., flaccid,, nerves, slender, base rather contracted, 

 softly hairy on both surfaces and with long tubercle-based bristles at the base j 



