178 Graminece. \Arundinella. 



3. A. villosa, Am. ex Steud. Syn. Grain. 115 (1845). 

 Thw. Enum. 362. C. P. 960. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 72. 



Perennial ; stems 1-2J ft., densely tufted, unbranched, 

 erect, stiff, smooth, glabrous except near the panicle, base 

 swollen, and sometimes as large as a hazel-nut, clothed with 

 woolly l.-sheaths, internodes very long, uppermost up to a 

 foot, nodes glabrous; 1. mostly crowded at the base of the 

 stem, 4-12 in. long, erect, narrowly linear, or almost filform, 

 pungent, coriaceous, glabrous pubescent or villous, smooth, 

 flat or margins involute, base very narrow, woolly, lower 

 sheaths short, upper very long, auricled, auricles rounded, 

 woolly, ligule minute, glabrous; panicle 2-8 in., erect, very 

 narrow, rhachis stout, tomentose, branches spiciform, sub- 

 secund, sessile, lower alt. up to \\ in, long, upper much shorter, 

 densely crowded, all covered from the base to the tip with 

 crowded, imbricating, subsecund, sub-sessile, villous spikelets 

 \-\ in. long, pedicels short, hispid with long speading hairs; 

 glumes. I and II ovate-lanceolate, 5 -veined, veins and margins 

 beset with long tubercle-based hair;, lateral veins nearer the 

 margins, I aristately acuminate, II rather longer, narrowed 

 into an awn-like obtuse point with infiexed margins, III as 

 long as I, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5 -veined, glabrous, paleate, 

 male or neuter, palea with ciliate flaps and nearly smooth 

 keels, IV half as long as III, oblong, obtuse, scaberulous 

 above, 5-veined, base penicillate, abruptly awned, awn as long 

 as the spikelet, geniculate about the middle, column slender 

 twisted, palea oblong-lanceolate, keels smooth, flaps eciliate ; 

 grain closely wrapped in the red-brown coriaceous suberulous 

 glumes and palea, oblong, j T in. long, compressed, pale 

 brown, embryo longer than half the seed. 



Abundant in the patanas, alt. 4-6000 ft. Spikelets dusky brown. 

 Continental India. 



4. A. leptochloa, Hook.f. FL B. Ind. vii. 76 (1896). 



Panicum leptochloa, Nees ; Thw. Enum. 360. P. zeylanicum, Arn. 

 MSS. C. P. 918. 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



Perennial ; stems 2-3 ft., tufted on a woody rootstock, 

 erect, rather stout, subsimple, leafy, stiff, glabrous, or laxly 

 hairy above, internodes long, upper 6-12 in.; nodes glabrous ; 

 1. 6-10 by \-\ in., linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, strict, 

 flat, glabrous or sparsely hairy, margins smooth, ciliate 

 with tubercle-based hairs towards the rounded or retuse 

 base, sheaths long, coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely hairy, 

 margins glabrous or ciliate, upper 6-10 in. long, ligule a 



