568 MONOCOTYLEDONEE. ANDROPOGON. 
pallide virescentes, rhachi parum fragili, articulis pedicellisque spicula 
sessili 3-plo brevioribus, altero margine (eo, quo sese respiciunt) pilis 
parcis accrescentibus, summis articulum subæquantibus v. eo brevio- 
ribus ciliati. Spiculæ 8 4—5 mm. longæ, obovato-ellipticæ v. obovato- 
oblongæ, inferne subconvolutæ (inde specie angustiores): gluma I^ 
chartaceo-herbacea, obtusissima v. obtusiuscula, alis rigide ciliolatis, 
dorso convexa, nervis 8—12 (nullo mediano) infra apicem desinenti- 
bus percursa, callo brevissime barbato; Hè I™ æquans sed multo 
angustior et ab illa fere obvoluta, chartaceo-membranacea, obtusa V. . 
acutiuscula, carina media inferne plus minus pilosa, lateralibus 
scabro-ciliolatis; III* illis parum brevior, oblonga, obtusa, enervis, 
glabra; IV* III?» æquans; aristze gracilis 15—25 mm. long: columna 
fusca, scaberrima, medio geniculata, subulam basi laxe tortam 
zquans. Anthere 2—3 mm. longs. Spieule pedicellatze sessiles 
sequantes, eisque simillimæ sed plans (inde specie latiores), pilosiores, 
obtusiores: gluma Ir: 15—19-nervis, carinis longiuscule ciliata; II 
elliptica, acutiuscula, margine late implicata, ciliata ; IIF illis '/, bre- 
vior, oblongo-ovalis, obtusa, enervis, ciliata; IV* II” aquans, lineari- 
.. Oblonga, acuta, integra (ex Kunthio 2—3-fida, anne fatiscentia lace- 
. rata?), glabra; anther& 2 mm. longe» (Kunth: effætæ). 
Subspec. a. genuinus ; culmis sub inflorescentia glaberrimis, race- 
mis ssepius solitariis raro 2—3", pedunculis glabris fultis. — A. cari- 
cosus Linn. sens. str.; A. serratus Retz. Obs. 5, p. 21; Trin. Spec. 
Gram. t. 329; A. Ierak Pers. Synops. 1, p. 103; Lepeocercis 
serrata Trin. Fund. 203; Heteropogon concinnus Thwait. Enum. pl. 
Zeyl. p. 368. — Culmi basi decumbentes, sæpe stolones supraterra- 
neos emittentes, 20—60 cm. alti, graciles. Laminæ 4—12 cm. long®, 
2—4 mm. latæ, subtus læves, supra sæpius pilis sparsis (basi tubercu- 
latis) hispidulæ, basi fimbriatæ, raro glabræ. Racemi interdum in 
eodem specimine solitarii v. 2—3", 4—5 em. longi; gluma I** spiculæ 
8 late obovato-elliptica, in '/, superiore latior, alis manifestis infra 
apicem abrupte desinentibus, dorso levis, nitens, inferne pilosula. 
Arista 15—20 mm. longa. Cujusvis racemi spicularum par imum 
homogamum. 
India orient. pr. Serampur (Voigt in h. Havn.), Callian (Kuntze, 
forma elatior multiramea), in Peninsula (Wight 1687), Ceylon 
(Anuadhapura l. Trimen, Bibili 1l. Thwaites); ad ripas Irawaddi 
(Wall. 8809 E, 8810 H); China prope Ta-pin-tze in prov. Yun-nan 
(Delavay in h. par.). 
