Andropogon.] CLXXIII. GBAMIXE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 2ul 



The CONCAN, Stocks, Woodrow. CENTRA.L PROVINCES ; Khandwa, Duthie. 

 BURMA, at Segaen, Wallich. CEYLON ; Mateke East, Tkwaites. DISTRIB. Malaya, 

 Australia. 



Stem 6-10 ft., as thick as a swan's quill below, hard, smooth, leafy. Leaves 

 1-2 ft., narrowly linear, acuminate, glaucous, above and margins scabrid ; sheaths 

 compressed, keeled, smooth ; ligule ciliate. Spikes - in., very stout, green; lower 

 12-15 pairs of spikelets homogamous, male or neuter, joints very short. Sessile 

 spikelets % in., cylindric, obtuse, callus long-bearded with rufous silky hairs; gl. I 

 truncate ; II obtuse ; III glabrous ; IV awn hirsute, very stout. Pedicelled spikel.ets 

 f in., green, pedicel very short; gl. I more or less twisted, lanceolate, many-nerved^, 

 one keel winged ; II linear-lanceolate, margins ciliate ; III and IV hyaline, short, 

 glabrous. Sessile spikelets of the homogamous pair like the pedicelled. 



** Ligule of hairs ; column of awn usually bearded ; callus long. 



66. A. bellariensis, Hack, in Flora (1885) 123 ; stem tall sheathed 

 to the top, leaves very narrow, sheaths terete, ligule of 2 rows of hairs, 

 spikes 2-2 in. slender partially sheathed, sessile fern, spikelets in., 

 callus acute bearded with white hairs, gl. I linear-oblong dorsally channelled 

 6-nerved glabrous, awn 1-1^ in. base dilated and 2-toothed, pedicelled spike- 

 lets ^ in. glabrous. Heteropogon polystachyon, Arn. in Wight Cat. n. 2321. 



The DECCAN ; near Bellary, Wight (Cat. n. 2321 in part). 



Stem 2 ft., ascending, branched above, terete, glabrous. Lea,ves 6 in. or more, 

 by $- in., rigid, green, quite smooth, puberulous above, setaceously acuminate; 

 sheath glabrous. tSpikes 2-3 in., slender, green, joints and pedicels shortly ciliate, 

 lower 2-4 pairs of spikelets homogamous, male. Sessile fern, spikelets pale, callus 

 straight pungent ; gl. I chartaceous, glabrous, 6-nerved margins narrowly inflexed, 

 keels scabrid, tip entire hyaline ; II oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, margins 

 inflexed; 111 linear, nerveless, glabrous ; IV awn stout, column ciliate with white 

 hairs. Pedicelled spikelets % in., lanceolate, shortly pedicelled; gl. I lanceolate, 

 7-nerved, glabrous; II narrower, 5-nerved, ciliate ; III and IV very narrow, glabrous. 

 Sessile spilcelet of homogamous pair like the pedicelled. 



67. A. Ritchie!, Hook.f. ; leaves scabrid, ligule a row of stiff bristles 

 connate below, spikes f-1 in. green, hispid, sessile i'em. spikelets $ in., callus 

 short hirsute, gl. I oblong, terete rufous villous dorsally not channelled, 

 nerves obscure, IV awn 1^-2 in. scabrid base acute, pedicelled spikelets 

 -| in. very shortly pedicelled green, gl. I narrowly lanceolate acuminate 

 many-nerved and with a marginal series of long spreading golden tubercle- 

 based bristles. 



The DECCAN ; Belgaum, Ritchie. 



Stem 4-6 ft. (one only seen). Leaves 1 ft. by 3 in., coriaceous, linear from a 

 narrow base, acuminate, flat, rigid, shortly hairy on both surfaces hairs tine 

 tubercle-based, margins spinulosely serrulate ; sheath smooth ; ligule membranous ? 

 Spikes with peduncles shorter than the very narrow sheaths, stout; lower 1-2 

 pairs of spikelets homogamous. Sessile fern, spikelets softly villous ; gl. I not 

 channelled dorsally ; II linear, 3-nerved, with a coriaceous hispid centre and mem- 

 branous wings ; III smaller, hyaline, nerveless ; IV awn slender, tortuous, red brown, 

 column pubescent. Pedicelled spikelets male, pedicels very short glabrous, gl. I nar- 

 rowly equally winged, glabrous, except for the bristles, II lanceolate, 3-nerved ; IV 

 oblong, hyaline. I have seen only the top of a branch with a single leaf of this 

 remarkable species. The ligule is imperfect. 



68. A. oligranthus, Hochst. ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 368 ; dwarf, annual, 

 leaves subensilorm acuminate softly hairy margins thickened, spikes short, 



