Aristida.] CLXXIII. GBAMINEJI. (J. D. Hooker.) 225 



gigantea, Linn. f. Suppl. 113; Kunth I.e. 194, Suppl. 150. A. Jacquiniana, 

 Tausch. in Flora (1836) 508. A. Heymannii, Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. vii. 

 (1880) 649. A. Hystrix, Duthie Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 47, t. 31 (not of Linn.fU). 

 A. nutans, Willd. Hort. Berol. ex Steud. Nomencl. Ed. II. i. 131. A. panicu- 

 lata, ForsJc. Fl. ^Eg. Arab. 25 (ex descript.\. A. pusilla, Trin. et Rupr. in Mem. 

 Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vii. (1819) 140. A. setacea, Trin. 1. c. i. (1831) 84 -(now 

 Eetz. ) ; Wall. Cat. n. 3785 ; Steud. I. c. 139. A. vulgaris, Trin. 8f Rupr. in Mem. 

 Acad. Petersb. 1. c. 131 (with 10 vars.) Steud. I. c. 138. Chsetaria Ascenscionis, 

 caerulescens, canariensis, depressa, elatior, & gigantea, Beauv. Agrost. 30. C. curvata 

 & maiiritiana, Nees Fl. Afr. Austr. 186, 188. C. Hystrix, Wight Cat. n. 1737 

 (now Beauv.). 



Var. A. sethiopica, Trin. 8f Rupr. I. c. 167. A. Ehrenbergii, Trin. 8f Rupr. 

 Stipac. 136 ; Steud. 1. c. 138. A. festucoides, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. i. 453 (ex 

 Trin.]; Kunth E 'num. PI. i. 197. A. mutabilis, var. sequilonga, Trin. 8f Rupr. in 

 Mem. Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. vii. (1849) 150. A. pumila, IJcne in Ann. Sc. Nat. 

 Ser. II. iv. (1835) 85 ; Soiss. I. c. 496 ; Steud. I. c. 138. A. spicigera, Trin. fy 

 Rupr. I.e. 136 ; Steud. 1. c. A. vulgaris, Trin. 8f Rupr. I. c. in part (with 6 vars.). 

 Aristida Wall. Cat. n. 3788. 



3. A. setacea^ Retz. Obs. iv. 22 ; perennial, panicle contracted, spike- 

 lets (excl. awn) |- in., gl. I and II long-awned, awn inarticulate at the 

 base, middle branch -! in. Kunth Enum. PI. i. 191 (excl. Syn. de- 

 pressa), Suppl. 148 ; Steud. Syn. Gram. 141 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 349'; Wall. 

 Gat. n. 3785 A. B in part] ; Grah. Gat. Bomb. PI. 218 ; Dalz. & G-ibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 295 ; Duthie Grass. N.W. Ind. 27. A. adscendens, Trim. Gat. Ceyl. PI. 

 108. A. arundinacea, Roem. ex Retz. I. c. (non Linn.). A. coerulescens, 

 Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl 370. A. Hystrix, Baker Fl. Maurit. 451 (excl. Syn.}. 

 A. quinqueseta, Steud. 1. c. 420. Chaetaria setacea, Beauv. Agrost. 36. 0. 

 depressa, Herb. Wight propr. n. 1735. 



WESTERN INDIA; from Behar and the Concan southwd. CEYLON; Walker, 

 &c. DISTEIB. Mascarene Islds. 



Stem 3-4 ft., sometimes as thick at the base as a goose-quill, stout, erect, 

 simple, or subfastigiately branched with open sheaths at the ramifications. Leaves 

 filiform, convolute, scaberulous. Panicle 6-12 in., inclined ; branches short, sub- 

 secund, scaberulous, usually fascicled and erect. Spikelets green or purplish ; gl. I 

 narrowed into a short awn ; 2 minutely 2-toothed, awn short ; III nearly smooth ; 

 beard of callus copious, white, silky. 



4. A. cyanantha, Steud. Norn. JEd. II. i. 131; Syn. Gram. 141 ; tall 

 stout, panicle effuse, branches flexuous widely spreading, spikelets (excl. 

 awns) vj- in., gls. I and II shortly awned, awn of III not articulate with 

 the gl. branches very lonar flexuous middle one up to 2^ in. Trin. in Act. 

 Acad. Sc. Petrop. Ser. VI. v. (1842) 150; Boiss. Fl. Orient v. 492; Duthie 

 Grass. N.W. Ind. 26 (excl. Syn.}. Chaetaria cyanantha, Nees in Royle III. 

 Bot. Himal. 424. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, alt. 3-5000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon ; and low hills 

 of the PANJAB. DISTBIB. Affghanistan, 



Perennial. Stem 3-6 ft,, attaining the thickness of a swan's quill below. 

 Leaves 6-12 by i- in., at length convolute, quite smooth, glaucous; sheaths smooth. 

 Panicle 12-18 in., very variable in amount of branching; branches 4-12 in., solitary 

 br 2-3-nate, usually naked for 2-6 in., scaberulous. Spikelets usually dark purple j 

 gls. I and II with nearly smooth keels, tip of II fimbriately toothed ; III, callus 

 hairs very few ; awn minutely scaberulous. 



5. A. Hystrix, Linn. f. Suppl. 113; perennial, panicle as broad as 

 loog branches distant rigid widely spreading, spikelets (excl. awns) - in., 



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