Aristida.] CLXXIII. QRAMINE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 227 



VI. vii. (1849) 160; Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii. (1892) 358. 

 A. stipacea, Ehrenb. & Hempr. ex Trin. & Rupr. I. c. Chaetaria murina, 

 Nees ex Trin. $ Rupr. I.e. 160. C. murina, j3. villosa, Nees ex Wight Cat. 

 n. 1736. C. Royleana, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 143. Arthratherum 

 Kotschyi, Hochst. ex Trin. 1. c. Aristida, Wall. Cat. n. 3787. 



Plains of the PANJAB from the Sutlej westward. EAJPOOTANA, and from the 

 CONCAN southward. DISTBIB. Beluchistan, Arabia, Trop. Africa. 



Stems many, geniculately ascending, 10 in.-2 ft. Leaves very slender, flat or 

 convolute, base ciliate with long hairs. Panicle 4-10 in., branches erect capillary. 

 Spikelets variable in length, pale ; gl. I rather shorter than II, keels scaberulous ; 

 III smooth, callus sparsely bearded or naked; column of awn very slender, minutely 

 scaberulous, twisted, branches straight capillary. 



Var. Royleana, leaves eciliate, spikelets smaller, on more distant spreading 

 flexuous branches, gl. I | in. or less, column of awn - in., branches more unequal, 

 longest f in. A. Royleana, Trin. fy Rupr. I.e. 160; Steud. I.e. 143. Chaetaria 

 Royleana, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. Arthratherum Royleauum, Edgew. eiy Aitchis. I. c. 

 The Punjab, Kaugra, alt. 3000 ft., Clarice. 



Var. ? 'StocJcsii ; gl. I = II. Concan ? Herb. Stocks. 



8. A. hystricula, Edgew. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. (1862) 208 ; dwarf, 

 very slender, 1-2 in. high, panicle very small narrow much shorter than 

 the awns, gls. I and II i in. subequal or I shorter aristately acuminate, 

 column of awn in. twisted, branches subequal |-f in. Aitchis. Gat. 

 Panjab PI. 164 ; Duthie Grass. N. W. Ind. 26, Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 47. 

 A. funiculata, Bois*. Fl. Orient, v. 493 (the Beluchist plant only). 



The PANJAB ; Multan, Edgeworth. SCIND ; near Kurrachee, Stocks. DISTBIB. 

 Beluchistan. 



Annual. Stems very many from the root, -1 in., densely crowded. Leaves 

 subulate, curved, convolute, acuminate, glabrous. ParucZe without the awns -1 in.; 

 branches few, short, erect. Spikelets erect ; gls. I and II very narrow ; callus of 

 III minute, glabrous; column of awn capillary, twisted, smooth, branches of 

 extreme tenuity. 



9. A. redacta, Stapf in Eew Bullet. (1892) 85 ; stems tufted, tall or 

 short, panicle large effuse, branches spreading, gls. I and II subequal 

 shortly awned about ^ in. long, II deciduous, column of awn capillary 

 twisted, branches or very short. A. depressa, Eetz. Herb. Ind. Or. 

 Hf. & T. in part. Stipa aristoides, Stapf ex Lisboa in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 Hist. Soc. vii. (1892) 358. 



LOWER BENGAL; Burdwan, Clarice. The CONCAN, CENTEAL INDIA, and the 

 CENTRAL PROVINCES, Stocks, Law, &c. DISTRIB. S. Persia. 



Annual. Stems 6 in.-2 ft., rather stout or slender, densely tufted, simple, or 

 proliferously branched in robust specimens. Leaves 4-8 in., very slender, convolute, 

 ciliate with long hairs at the base. Panicle 6-12 in., rachis slender smooth ; 

 branches usually binate, capillary, flexuous, .smooth, erect or spreading, each with 

 one or few spikelets. Spikelets on short or long capillary pedicels, green or purplish ; 

 column of awn gradually dilating below, 3-nerved, convolute and passing into the 

 glume from the top of which it separates readily but without an indication of the 

 joint. 



Sect. III. STIPAGROSTIS. Awn feathery. 



10. A. hlrtigrluma, Steud. Norn. Ed. II. ii. 231, Syn. Gram. 144; 

 very slender, panicle narrow strict or flexuous, branches very short, gl. I 

 and II unequal, III muriculate, awn capillary plumose middle branch 1| in. 

 lateral much shorter naked of extreme .tenuity. Trin. & Rupr. in Mem. 

 Acad. Petersb. Ser. VI. v. (1812) 171; Aitchis. Cat. Panjab PI. 164; 



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