l8o Graminece. \Arundinella. 



auricled, IV half as long as III, thin, ovate-oblong, scaberulous,. 

 tip obtuse, toothed, base naked or minutely bearded, awn if 

 present about twice as long as the spikelet, column slender,, 

 twisted, flaps of scaberulous palea narrow, glabrous, hardly 

 auricled. 



Central Province; common from 3000-5000 ft. elevation. 



Endemic. 



There are awned and awnless forms of this plant, between which I 

 can find no other difference whatever; both occur on the same sheet of 

 Thwaites's C. P. 919 in Herb. Peraden. 



6. A. Lawii, Hook.f. 



A. agrosloides, Trin.; Fl. B. Ind. vii. yi (partim). 



Perennial ; stems tufted, erect from a small woody root- 

 stock, 3-4 ft. high, strict, slender or rather stout, leafy,, 

 branching upwards, smooth; 1. 8-12 by \ in., linear, finely 

 acuminate, fiat, sparsely hairy on both surfaces, margins 

 nearly smooth, midrib slender, veins faint, sheaths elongate,, 

 mouth auricled, ligule a tomentose lunate ridge ; panicle 

 1 2-20 in., pyramidal, decompound, effuse, glabrous, drooping, 

 rhachis slender, smooth, lower branches up to 6 in. long, in 

 distant fascicles, filiform, spreading, flexuous, subscaberulous,. 

 branchlets capillary ; spikelets tV~tV * n * ^ on S> ver y long- 

 pedicelled, obscurely articulate at the naked base ; glumes 

 very thin, I and II rather distant at the base, with scaberulous 

 or ciliate veins, separately deciduous, I shorter than III, ovate,, 

 acuminate, 3-5-veined, II broadly ovate, suddenly narrowed 

 into a narrow obtuse beak, 5-veined, lateral veins distant from 

 the median, III ^ shorter than II, oblong, obtuse, faintly 

 5-veined, lateral veins submarginal, palea oblong, obtuse, with 

 a faint median vein, keels ciliolate, flaps hardly auricled ; 

 IV not half II, oblong, obtuse, membranous, hyaline, punctu- 

 late, faintly 5-veined, base shortly bearded, awn as long as the 

 spikelet, straight, column articulate above the base, palea 

 oblong, obtuse, puncticulate, keels smooth, flaps dilated below 

 hardly auricled. 



Ceylon (Ferguson, in Herb. Peraden.), without locality. 



The Concan. 



In the Flora of British India this plant was considered to be a form 

 of A. agrostoides, Trin., having been so named by Munro (in Herb. Ind. 

 Or. Hf. and T.). Its occurrence in Ceylon has led to a re-examination of 

 it, with the aid of fine specimens collected in the Concan by Mr. 

 Woodrow. The result is that it must rank as a distinct species 

 characterised by its perennial habit, much taller stems, long leaves, 

 and very long drooping elongate pyramidal panicle. 



7. A. blephariphylla, Trim. uss. ex FL B. Ind. vii. yy (1896). 

 Paniciim bleftJiarifthylliim, Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxii. (1885), 272. 

 Fl. B. Ind. 1. c. 



