Anmdmella.~\ GraiflineCB. l8l 



Perennial ; stems 2-3 ft., tufted, tall, stout, leafy from the 

 base upwards, glabrous, upper internode very long, nodes 

 glabrous; 1. 12-18 by h-i in., linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 thin, flat, smooth, glabrous on both surfaces, margins ciliate 

 with long, slender, spreading, tubercle-based hairs, base broad, 

 cordate, semi-amplexicaul, sheath pale, glabrous, membranous, 

 margins ciliolate, ligule O, or a very narrow membrane ; panicle 

 4-6 in., broadly oblong, rhachis strict, nearly smooth, branches 

 filiform, angular, laxly whorled, spreading or subsecund, 

 subscaberulous, axils hairy; spikelets | in., subsecund, sub- 

 solitary, as long as their pedicels, ovoid, base naked, articu- 

 late ; glumes I and II separately deciduous, I one-fourth of 

 II, broadly ovate, acute, 3-veined, II ovate, acuminate, 5- 

 veined, III oblong, subacute, 3-veined, male, paleate, IV about 

 half as long as III, lanceolate, thin, white, scaberulous, not 

 •awned, base naked, palea scaberulous. 



Margins of woods near the sea. Ruanwelle (Ferguson). 

 Endemic. 



8. A. Thwaitesii, Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 77 (1896). 

 A. nervosa, var. Thw. MSS. C. P. 919 (in part), 4019. 

 FL B. Ind. 1. c. 



Perennial; stems 2-3 ft., tufted, erect, slender, leafy, 

 glabrous, internodes long, uppermost very long, nodes 

 glabrous; 1. 4-8 by |— \ in., very narrowly linear, finely 

 acuminate, fiat or margins involute, coriaceous, quite smooth, 

 glabrous, base narrow, rounded, sheaths long, coriaceous, 

 glabrous, or mouth sparsely hairy, margins membranous, ligule 

 a very narrow hairy membrane or obsolete; panicle 4-8 in., 

 effuse, perfectly glabrous, laxly branched, rhachis slender, 

 smooth, terete or angular, branches in rather distant fascicles, 

 2-4 in. long, capillary, erecto-patent, sparingly divided; spikelets 

 Ys~k m -> solitary or binate, subsecund, articulate on their 

 pedicels, glabrous, base naked, pedicels up to \ in. long; 

 glumes rather coriaceous, I and II separately deciduous, I 

 orbicular-ovate, subacute, 3-5-veined, II one-third longer or 

 more, broadly ovate, suddenly contracted into a subulate 

 obtuse beak, 5-veined, lateral veins towards the margin, III 

 one-third longer than I, oblong-ovate, obtuse, 5-7-veined, 

 paleate, male or neuter, IV one-fourth shorter than III, fern, 

 or bisexual, oblong, obtuse, rather thickened below the middle, 

 white, minutely scaberulous, awnless, base naked or minutely 

 penicillate, palea of III and IV oblong, obtuse, flaps narrow, 

 hardly auricled. 



Ceylon ( Walker), Ambagamuwa district (Th wakes, 1862). 

 Endemic. 



