And.opogon.'] CLXXIII. GRAMINEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) 209 



Leaf-sheaths compressed, keeled. 



76. A. Hookeri, Munro ex Hack. Monogr. Androp. 614 ; tall, slender, 

 leaves long linear, panicle linear interrupted, branches suberect nearly 

 simple, proper spathes -! in., joints and pedicels of spikes stout clavate, 

 sessile spikelets i in. dull violet dorsally deeply concave puberulous keels 

 scabrid. 



BHOTAN ? Griffith (Kew Distrib. n. 6767 ex 



Leaves 12-16 by -jL L in., rather rigid, smooth, margin scabrid, midrib broad 

 keeled below ; ligule obtuse, membranous, glabrous. Panicle 12-16 in. ; primary 

 branches of 1-2 nodes giving off solitary secondary. Spikes subequal, joints and 

 pedicels dorsally glabrous, margins sparsely villous, tips 2-3-lobed. Sessile spikelets, 

 gl. I coriaceo-cbartaceous, acute, minutely 2-toothed, keels not margined or winged 

 obscurely 2-nerved ; II lanceolate, acute, keel scabrid, margin eciliate ; IV 2-clef't, 

 lobes slender eciliate ; awn about f in. Pedicelled spikelets equalling the sessile, 

 linear-lanceolate, glabrous. I have not recognized the above amongst Griffith's 

 plants in the Kew Herbarium. The Bbotan plant bearing the number 6767 in that 

 Herbarium and named by Munro A. Hookeri, is not a Cymbopoffon, but probably a 

 Schizachyrium, in too imperfect a state for determination. Munro has also attached 

 the name A. Hookeri to my A. microtheca, which was appropriate for a plant first 

 found by myself. 



** Peduncle of spikes longer than the proper spathe. 



77. -A. lividus* Thwaites Enum. PI. Zeyl. 367 ; erect, leaves narrow 

 rigid, spikes long-peduncled, pedicels and joints clavate, sessile spikelets 

 i in., gl. I lanceolate obscurely 2-toothed keels with narrow scaberuloas 

 wings, II shortly awned with a dorsal serrulate wing above the middle, 

 IY deeply 2-fid segments villously ciliate. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 615 ; 

 Trim. Gat. Ceyl PL 107. 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Schmid. CEYLON; Mountains, alt. 7000 ft., Thwaites, (C.P. 

 953). 



Stems 1-2 ft., tufted, strict, smooth, rigid. Leaves 4-6 in., strict, erect, acu- 

 minate, strongly nerved, nearly smooth ; lower sheaths short ; ligule oblong. 

 Peduncles 1-4, terminal and axillary; spikes 1-2 in., erect, dull reddish-brown; 

 joints and pedicels about half as long as the sessile spikelet, margins ciliate with 

 silky hairs, tips cupped and toothpd. Sessile spikelet, callus very short; gl. I flat, 

 glabrous, margins broadly incurved below, nerves obscure ; II narrow, ciliate, dorsally 

 rounded; III oblong, ciliate, 2-nerved ; IV as long as III; awn very slender, about 

 twice as long as the spikelet ; palea 0. Pedicelled spikelets as long as the sessile, 

 linear-oblong, subacute, dorsally convex, glabrous, many^nerved, keels scaberulous, 

 margins broadly incurved; II ovate-oblong, acuminate, sub 3-nerved, ciliate; III as 

 in the sessile; IV as long, hyaline. Schmid's Nilghiri specimen was distributed 

 by Dr. Stahl mixed with A. pertusus, which it strongly resembles. 



B. Column of awn hirsute. 



78. A. filipendulus, Hochst. in Flora, xxix. (1846) 115 ; Steud. Syn. 

 Gram. 389 (filipendulinus). Hack. Monogr. Androp. 634; Trim. Cat. PI. 

 Ceylon, 107. A. finitimus, Hochst. ex A. Rick. Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 4(56; 

 Steud. I c. ; Haclc. 1. c. 637; Baker Fl. Maurit. 446. A. Griffithii, Munro 

 in Cat. PL Griffith, Falconer, &c. 58 (ined.). A. lachnatherus, Senth. FL 

 Austral, vii. 434. A. procerus, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 124 (non Br.}. 

 Hyparrhenia tinitima, Anderss. in Schweivf. Beitr. Fl. Mthiop. 310. 

 Anthistiria fasciculata, Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 366. 



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