222 Graminece. \Apocopis. 



not keeled, II longer, ovate, keeled, bifid, awned in the sinus, 

 awn much longer than the spikelet, sparingly twisted, III 

 nearly as long as II, not awned, usually o in the pedicelled 

 spikelet, IV about half as long as II, bifid, awned in the sinus, 

 awn as in II, palea broadly oblong not keeled; lodicules o ; 

 stam. i or 2 ; ov. narrow, styles short, free, stigmas very long, 

 exserted at the tip of the spikelet, shortly hairy ; grain narrow, 

 gibbously obovate, compressed, acute. — Sp. 2 or 3 ; all in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



P. crinitum, Kunth, Enam. PL i. 478 (1833). 



P. saccharoideum, Thw. Enum. 365 (non Beauv.). P. saccharoideum, 

 fi, monandrum, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 193. Andropogon crinitus, 

 Thunb. ; Moon, Cat. 72. C. P. 936. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 141. Kunth, Revis. Gram. t. 161 {P. refractum, Nees). 



Stems 6-18 in., densely tufted; 1. 1-3 by yo~t in., linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, more or less hairy on bot h surfaces, 

 and on the margins, sheaths lax, glabrous, mouth hairy, 

 ligule of long hairs ; spikes subpanicled, terminating the 

 branches of the stem, on capillary peduncles f-i in., long, 

 reddish yellow, rhachis slender, internodes very short, ciliate, 

 tips thickened, truncate; spikelets about ^ ^ in. long, 

 usually monandrous, hairs of callus longer than the spikelets ; 

 glumes veinless, I ciliate at the rounded or retuse tip, II \ 

 longer than I, keel and lobes scaberulous, the latter ciliolate, 

 III linear, smooth, epaleate, or o, IV cleft to the middle, lobes 

 ciliolate, awns of II and IV straight or recurved, J-f in. long, 

 of IV rather the longest. 



Very common, especially in the Central and Western Provinces. 

 Throughout India, China, Malaya, New Hebrides. 



P. Saccharoideum, Beauv. Agrost. 56, t. 11, f. 7, is very doubt- 

 fully distinct from crinitum, and regarded by Hackel as a variety 

 (a, gemtinus). It is distinguished by its stouter habit, larger spikelets, 

 short callus hairs, glume III oblong or ovate, ciliate, empty diandrous 

 or rarely bisexual, paleate or not. Hackel gives Ceylon as a habitat. 

 It is a very common Indian plant. 



36. APOCOPXS, Nees. 



Annual or perennial grasses ; stems slender; 1. narrow, 

 flat ; spikes solitary or 2-3-nate, compressed, rhachis firm, not 

 readily disarticulating, internodes very short, slender, villous ; 

 spikelets secund, closely imbricate in 2 series, solitary, sessile, 

 1-2-fld., lowest 2—4 in the spike imperfect, neuter, callus 

 very short, acute, bearing the long capillary ciliate pedicel of 

 an absent upper spikelet; glumes 4, I very large, cuneately 



