226 MONOCOTYLEDONER. ISCHEMUM. 
eiliolata, aristam emittens 8—12 mm. longam gracilem columnä rectä 
elaberrimá brunneá e glumis parum exsertá quam subula parum 
pallidior laxe torta duplo breviore. Antherae 2,5—3 mm. long. Spiculæ 
pedicellat® parum breviores, obovatze ; gluma I": callo barbata, acuta, 
marginibus inferne auriculiformibus, glabra v. raripila ; II“ mutica, 
ciliolata, carina sæpe pilosa, cetera ut in spieulis sessilibus. 
ar. a, genuinum. Pori ad basin spiculæ sessilis distincti. Articuli 
angulo exteriore canescenti-ciliati. Spiculæ sessiles cum callo 1 mm. 
longo 3,5—5 mm. longæ, callo sulco levi ab reliqua glumæ parte 
sejuncto. Spiculæ pedicellatæ gluma IV* plerumque perfecte aristata, 
arista ea sessilium parum breviore. 
Subvar. 1. prorepens. Longe repens; rami erecti, 15—25 cm. alti, 
simplices v. superne ramum floriferum edentes; folia glabra v. pube- 
rula, lamine 2—5 cm. longæ, 2—4 mm. latæ; racemi 1,5—4 cm. 
longi. Spiculæ sessiles 5 mm. longæ, gluma I": in parte nervosa sine 
scrobiculis, plerumque glabra; arista 8—10 mm. longa. — I. ciliare 
Retz. ! sensu str. (specimen typicum paullo ad subvar. 3. vergens) ; 
I. tenellum Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 1, p. 323? inde Andropogon 
asthenos Steud. Synops. 1, p. 376. 
Peninsula Ind. or. (Wight 1693) ; Maisur et Carnatie (Hook. f. et 
. Thoms.) ; Nepal (Wall. 8858 A, B) ; Silhet (Wall. 8859 C ad subv. 3 
vergens) ; China ad Cap Syng Moon (Meyen); Macao ; Amoy (Hance 
1251). 
2. scrobiculatum. Culmi et folia praecedentis ; racemi 2 em. longi, 
spieule 3,5—4 mm. longe, gluma I": in parte nervosa scrobiculis 1—2 
transversis impressa, glabra. — I. scrobiculatum Wight et Arnott! 
ap. Steud. Synops. 1, p. 373. Spodiopogon serobieulatus Nees ap. 
Steud. l. c. et Sp. zeylanicus Nees ! 1. c. p. 377 ; Andropogon bifidus 
' Steud. l. e. p. 373 et A. simillimus ibid. (diagnosis synonymaque ad 
litteram eadem !) ; A. Maerzi Steud. 1. e. p. 377 
In ins. Ceylon (Maerz ; Wight 2322). 
3. malacophyllum. Culmi basi breviter v. vix decumbentes, mox 
ascendentes, 30—60 em. alti. Folia plerumque breviter et appresse 
pubescentia v. hirtula; laminz 8—16 em. longz, 5—8 mm. latæ ; 
racemi 4—5 em. longi, spiculze sessilis gluma I™ apice late alata, alis 
retusis, superne sæpe pilifera ; II“ carina sæpius ciliata ; arista 10— 
12 mm. longa. Transit in var. 8. — Spodiopogon obliquivalvis Nees ! 
Pl. Meyen. p. 185. Andropogon malacophyllus Hochst. in Hohenack. 
. Pl. Ind. or. n. 917, Steud. Synops. 1, p. 372. Isch. aristatum Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. ed. Carey 1, p. 319. 
