Iseikma.] CLXXIII. GRAMINE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 219 



Stems tufted, 8-36 in., erect or ascending. Leaves narrow, 3-10 in M linear, 

 obtuse, base ciliate ; sheaths lax ; ligule membranous, truncate. Panicle flexuous, 

 narrow ; branches short, distant ; spathes 5 in., elliptic-lanceolate, reddish, keel and 

 nerves scabrid. Invol. spikelets in. ; pedicels glabrous ; gl. I oblong-lanceolate 

 eubacute, 5-nerved ; II 3-nerved ; III linear. Bisexual spikelets; pedicel ciliate; 

 gl. I chartaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, tip truncate j II acuminate, 1-nerved j IV 

 awn -- f in., very slender. 



4. I. anthephoroides? Hack. Monogr. Androp. 683 ; panicle crowded 

 leafy, racemes divergent, invol. spikelets very shortly broadly pedicelled 

 glumes 2, I with 5 strong villous ribs, bisexual spikelet subsessile. An- 

 thistiria prostrata, var. spic. masc. longe ciliatis, Weight Cat. n. 2335. 

 Anthistiria, Wall. Cat. n. 8767 A. 



The SOTJTHEEN DECCAN PENINSULA, Wight, &c. 



Nearly allied to T. laxum, but a shorter stouter plant, with more crowded branches 

 of the panicle and racemes. 



55 1 . PSEUDANTHISTIRIA, Hoolc.f. 

 Not in Clavis, p. 5. 



Annual grasses, with the habits and characters of Anthistiria, but 

 wanting the involucrant spikelets of that genus. DISTBIB. India. 



Pseudanthistiria was regarded by Hackel as an anomalous section of his sub- 

 genus Hypogynium of Andropogon, with the habit of Anthistiria,. As I have 

 pointed out above (p. 168) it is a remarkably distinct genus of Andropogonece with 

 characters totally at variance with those of Hypogynium as given in the " Monogr. 

 Androp." I think that it is one of a natural group with Anthistiria, Iseilema, 

 Heteropogon and G-ermainia. I am doubtful as to the specific value of some of the 

 following, more copious material of all collected by good observers is wanting in 

 this, as in so many other genera of grasses. 



1. P . heteroclita, Hook. f. ; leaves 6-12 in. linear glabrous or 

 more or less ciliate nerves distinct, fascicles of spikes about i in. broad, 

 proper spathes ^ in. hardly longer than the spikes, sessile spikelets - 

 in. hispidulous all over, awn f in. base lanceolate. Andropogon hetero- 

 clitus, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 115; Steud. Syn. Gram. 389; Hack. Monog.r. 

 Androp. 400. A. monomeros, Hochst. in Hohen. PI. Ind. Or.' n. 183.. 

 Anthistiria heteroclita, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 249 ; Kunth Enum. PI. i. 483. 



BENGAL ; pastures near Calcutta, Roxburgh. The CONCAN and CANARA, Law,. 

 Thomson, &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., geniculate, slender, rarely as thick as a crow-quill, smooth, sub- 

 simple or branched. Leaves - in. broad, ciliate on both surfaces together with the 

 sheaths and margins with long tubercled-based hairs in Calcutta specimens, nearly 

 glabrous in Western ones ; sheaths much shorter than the internodes ; ligule short, 

 membranous. Panicle not large, leafy, compound, with many shortly peduncled 

 fascicles ; proper spathes and pedicelled spikelets with a few long tubercle -based 

 bristles ; keel ciliate ; base of awn linear-lanceolate. I have seen no Bengal speci- 

 mens, but the excellent figure in Roxburgh's " Icones pictse" leaves no doubt in my 

 mind as to its being of the same species as the western plant, only more copiously 

 ciliate. A specimen in Herb. Kew from Hackel was communicated as Anthistiritt 

 tremula, the likeness between these two plants being so deceptive. 



2. P. hispida, Hook.f.; leaves 6-10 in. linear and sheaths ciliate 

 with long hairs or glabrescent, nerves distinct, fascicles of spikes f in. broad 

 copiously hirsute with tubercle-based bristles, outer spathes li-2 in. long, 



