AntJiistiria.'] , CLXXITI. GRAMINEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) 215 



Invol. sgikelets % in.; gls. 3, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, margins with narrow 

 scarious wings, dorsally copiously ciliate with tubercle-based hairs ; Has long, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, membranous, 3-nerved ; III as long, hyaline, lanceolate, acuminate, 

 2-nerved. Bisexual spikelets i in. , usually 2, lower with one pedicelled spikelet, 

 upper with two ; callus hairs rusty. Pedicelled spikelets lanceolate, gls. 3 ; I lan- 

 ceolate, dorsally ciliate with long hairs and one margin winged j II and III as in 

 the involucrant spikelets. 



7. A. Thwaitesii, Hook. f. ; tall, very stout, nodes glaucous, 

 panicle leafy, spikes in dense subflabelliform fascicles 1-1 in. broad, outer 

 spathes l-2|in., bisexual spikelets 2 hispidulous dorsally channelled, awn 

 1 in. 



CEYLON, Thwaites (C.P. 961 in part). 



Perennial? Stem probably 5-6 ft., thicker than a goose-quill, polished. Leaves 

 1-2 ft. by 4 f in., finely acuminate, tips setaceous ; ligule a ciliolate narrow 

 membrane. Panicle 12 in. or more ; rachis stout, leafy ; leaves 6-10 in. long. 

 Fascicles of spikes as in A. tremula, but larger and less hairy. 



8. A. Cymbaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 251 (excl. Syn.) ; tall, stout, panicle 

 supradecompound thyrsiform, spikes innumerable glabrous densely crowded 

 in small long peduncled narrow fascicles 3 | in. long, proper spathes 

 |-| in. linear-lanceolate, invol. spikelets -% in. acuminate glabrous 

 gls. 4, bisexual spikelets solitary (rarely 2) awned, callus hairs white 

 soft = | the spikelet. Kunfh Enum. PI i. 482, excl. Syn., Suppl. 396 ; 

 Steud. Syn. Gram. 399 ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PL 219 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 FL 304 ; Thw. Enum. PL Zeyl. 436 ; Trim. Cat. Geyl. PI. 108. Andro- 

 pogon serratifolius, Herb. Heyne e& Wall. Gat. n. 8771 B. Themeda Cymbaria, 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 668. Anthistiria, Wall. Cat. n. 8771, 



NILGHIRI HILLS, Wight, ScJimid. MYSORE or the CARNATIC, Herb. G. Thomson. 

 CEYLON; Matelle East, Thwaites (C.P. 3257, 3803). 



Perennial. Stem 3-8 ft., as thick as a swan's quill below, puberulous beneath 

 the nodes. Leaves 2-4 ft. by | in., not overtopping the panicle, scaberulous above, 

 glaucous beneath, margins scabrid ; sheaths subcompressed, keeled ; ligule very short. 

 Panicle tall, 1-2 ft., branches smooth or scaberulous ; spikes in oblong fascicles 

 i~s in. long. Invol. spikelets, red or blueish, keels scabrid. Bisexuai spikelets 

 linear-oblong j gl, I shining below, scaberulous above ; awn - in., slender. 



9. A. anathera, Nees ex Royle III. Bot. Himal. 417 (name) ; upper 

 leaves erect exceeding the elongate subsimple panicle, spikes few in pedi- 

 celled fascicles, involucr. spikelets ^-5 in., glumes 4, keels of gl. I with 

 tubercle-based hairs, bisexual spikelets 2-3 linear-lanceolate not awned, 

 keels of gl. I ciliolate. Steud. Syn. Gram. 402 ; Aitoh. Gat. Panjab PL 

 173; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 23, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 42; Boiss. FL 

 Orient, v. 460. Androscepia anathera, Anderss. in Nov. Act. Sc. Upsal. Ser. 

 III. ii. (1856) 249. Themeda anathera, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 669. 

 Anthistiria, Wall. Cat. n. 8773. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4500-7000 ft., and to 

 9000 ft. in Garwhal, Duthie. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Perennial. Stem erect, 1-4 ft., slender, leafy. Leaves very narrow, a~|- in. 

 broad, rigid, glaucous, margins and upper surface scabrous, scaberulous beneath j 

 sheaths glabrous ; ligule oblong, obtuse. Panicle 1-2 ft. , narrow, glabrous ; proper 

 spatbes -1 in., linear-lanceolate, acute. Spikes glabrous. Involucr. spikelets more 

 or less hispid, one of each pair shortly stipitate. Wallich's habitat for his n. 8773., 

 " Bengal, near the Calcutta Bot. Gardeu," is either an error or the plant was au 

 escape from cultivation. Andersson has two varieties, o. hirsuta> invol. spikelets 



