Anthistiria.~\ CLXXIII. GBAMINEJJ. (J. D. Hooker.) 213 



major, Thw. L c. 366. A. ciliata ? Munro in Herb. Griff. (Kew distrib. n. 6808). 

 A, au-tralis, Br. Prodr. 200; Kunth 1. c. ; Steud. I.e.; Anderss. I. c.,13; Walp. 

 L c. 1058. A. arguens, Wight Cat. n. 1709. A. imherbis, Set*. Obs. iii. 11 ; 

 Kunth I c. 481 (exd. Syn.). Antlristiria, Wall. Cat. 8764, A. E. F. 



** Stems 3-5 ft. Leaves 8-16 by \-$ in. Panicle 16-24 in.; nodes 5-6; 

 lower branches usually compound. Gl. I of invol. spikelets with often broad 

 scarious margins. 



Var. major, Hack. 1. c. 662 ; proper spathes and invol. spikelets hirsute with 

 green or white tubercle-based hairs. A. ciliata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 40 ; Wight Cat. 

 n. 1708. ?A. puberula, Anderss. I.e. 12; Walp. L c. 1038 (see Var. Roy lei). 



*** Annual ? Stem very slender, unbranched ; leaves very narrow. 



Var. Roylei, Hook. f. ; spikes few in peduncled axillary fascicles, spathes glabrous 

 outermost 2-3 in. proper rather longer than the spikes, invol. spikelets $ in. naked 

 or with a few cilia, bisexual in. hispid towards the tip, pedicel led longer glabrous, 

 keels not ciliate. ?A. puberula, Anderss. I. c. 12 ; Walp. L c. 1058. A. ciliata, 0, 

 Nees in Herb. Royle. N. VV. Himalaya, Royle ; Simla Hills, Thomson. Kunmon, 

 alt. 7500 ft., Strach. & Winterb. (A. ciliata). A very distinct form, and the only 

 temperate one of A. imberbis. It closely resembles A. Hookeri, the only other temp. 

 Himalayan species, which has superposed pairs of much larger invol. spikelets, 

 solitary spikes and short spathes. The glabrous spikelets and larger sessile spikelets 

 hispid at the top distinguish it from ciliata. 



3. A. laxa, Anderss. in Nov. Act. Sc. Upsal. Ber. III. ii. (1856) 243 ; 

 perennial, stem tall stout leafy proliferously branched, panicles of spikes 

 email of few spikelets in a long lax subsimple leafy panicle shortly 

 peduncled, outer spathes ^1 in., proper spathes nearly glabrous hardly 

 longer than the spikes, involuc. spikelets |- in. nearly glabrous gls. 3, 

 bisexual spikelets |- in. solitary with 2 pedicelled, callus short, pedicelled 

 spikelets glabrous or nearly so, awu 1-1^ in. Walp. Ann. vi. 1059. 

 Themeda Forskahlii, var. ? laxa, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 663. Anthistiria, 

 Wall. Oat. n. 8775. 



NEPAL, Wallich. BHOTAN, Griffith. CENTRAL PROVINCES ; Khandwa, Duthie. 



Intermediate between A. imberbis and ciliata, with very stout erect polished 

 stems 2-3 ft. high, as thick as a goose-quill, and very small nearly glabrous heads 

 of spikes. The panicle is leafy and all the leaves are very narrow. There is a 

 specimen in the Kew Herbarium from Roxburgh, but without habitat. It may 

 prove to be a form of A. imberbis, with small spikelets, or of strigosa, with unarmed 

 epathes and spikelets. 



4. A. ciliata, Linn.f. Nov. Gram. Gen. 35; annual, spikes in globose 

 or Pan-shaped fascicles, outer spathes 1-3 in. glabrous or sparingly 

 ciliate, proper spathes and spikelets usually copiously clothed with tubercle- 

 based bristles, invol. spikelets |-J in. gls. 3, bisexual spikelets |-J- in. 

 usually solitary with 1 or 2 pedicelled spikelets scabrid, callus short obtuse, 

 awn 1-1| in. Gsertn. Carp. ii. 465, t. 175 ; LamJc. Illustr. t. 841, f. 1 ; 

 Seauv. Agrost.t. 23, f. 7 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 401 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. 

 Ind. 42 ; Balcer Fl. Maurit. 448. A. barbata, Desf. in Journ. Phys. xl. 294, 

 t. 2. A. scandens, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 248. A. semiberbis, Nees Fl. Afr. 

 Austr.125. Themeda ciliata, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 664. Andropogon 

 nutans, Linn. Mant. ii. 303. A. quadrivalva (err. typog.} Linn. Syst. Peg. 

 Ed. xiii. 758. Anthistiria, Wall. Gat. n. 8764 B. D.' 



N.W. INDIA, Royle, Kumaon, ascending to 7500 ft., Nepal, Wallich. BENGAL, 

 Roxburgh. BEHAE, J. D. H. The CONCAN, CENTRAL PROVINCES, MALABAR and 

 TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. Mascarene Islds. 



In habit and size A. ciliata often resembles the ordinary states of A. imberbis and it 



