Se Pee Py ee Se Ee I ae ee Na eee Te ee ae en 
Vol. re es 8.] New and Revised Species of Graminee. 517 
Description :—A delicate-looking grass, stems slender, erect, 
1-1} foot long: uppernodes pubescent: leaves 1-3 inches by +, 
inch, subcordate at base, hairy on both eidlot with long slender 
hairs, the margins thickened and minutely irregularly repand 
and Spinulosely serrulate: sheathes glabrous: ligule a short 
erose membrane. Racemes solitary, 4-1 inch long (without 
the pace on a very slender peduncle: sessile spikelets 4 inch 
long; glumes 4. I oblong, obtuse, faintly 5—7-nerved, glab- 
rous, ‘Margins narrowly incurved, keels shortly ciliate at the 
: IT just a little longer than 1, 3-nerved, oblong, apiculate : 
Id shales than I and IT, hyaline and with ciliate margins, epa- 
leate : IV the narrow base of the awn, just a little more than half 
scabrid awn about 14 inch long, bearing a bisexual flower. 
Pedicelled spikelets about } inch long: glume I sti 1 obtuse, 
7—9-nerved, margins incurved and broadly winged at the k eels, 
wings shortly ciliate towards the apex : II a little shorter than 
I, oblong, acute, 3-nerved, margins ciliate : III shorter than 
hyaline, ciliate, faintly 3-5-nerved, epaleate, male ; joints and 
pedicels c ompressed more or less obscurely channelled (?), 
obliquely "Granda 4-3 as long as the sessile spikelets and 
ciliate with short white hairs on both sides 
‘Dr. Stapf agrees that this is a ~e species of Andropogon 
(Eremopogon), and I have named it A. Paranjpyeanum after 
ne, colleague Mr. H. P. Paranjpye, B. AS; Assistant Economic 
otanist. 
ENTEROPOGON BADAMICUM, Bhide. 
Collected by R. K. Bhide, at Badami, on the fort above the 
caves, in September, 1909. 
Description :—Stems 2-24 feet, geal erect, glabrous : 
leaves narrow , 4—7 inches by }-} inch, a 8 ng to a fine ac- 
fringe of hairs. gnike soil terminal, 6 inches es Spike- 
lets two-seriate and secund on a flattened sn eo slightly 
scabrid rachis, subsessile or very shortly pedicelled ; glumes I 
and II persistent, empty, scarious, 1-nerved, glabrous or ia 
minutely puberulous, I less Qian half of II, more or less unequal 
sided and sometimes slightly lobed on one side, ovate, subacute 
and erose at the apex. II shortly unequally two-toothed at 
the apex with a short mucro between. III flowering, slightly 
longer than II, two-toothed at the apex, 3-nerved with a dorsal 
stiff awn about as long as the glume, scabrid at the back and 
with short white silky hairs, pale a little longer than the glume, 
