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sparsely setose above, more so beneath, margins smooth, 

 glabrous or ciliate towards the base, midrib and veins obscure, 

 sheaths short, membranous, of uppermost 1. ventricose, mouth 

 not auricled, ligule short, hyaline, ciliate; spikes 3-5, sessile or 

 very shortly peduncled, rhachis capillary, internodes shorter 

 than the sessile spikelets, ciliate with very long erect hairs; 

 spikelets solitary, or with rarely a pedicelled, iV | in., very 

 narrowly lanceolate, callus short, obconic, bearded, white; 

 glume I membranous, almost hyaline, lanceolate, bicuspidate, 

 5-7-veined above the middle, veins scabrid, II membranous, 

 lanceolate, aristiform in the upper third, 1 -veined, keel and 

 awn scabrid, III very small, ovate, acuminate, epaleate, IV half 

 as long as II, lanceolate, awned dorsally towards the base, 

 eciliate, awn \ in. long, palea o; anth. 2, minute, short; style 

 and stigmas short ; pedicelled spikelets if present y 1 - in. long, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, neuter, pedicel = \-\ of the sessile 

 spikelet, ciliate with very long hairs, glume I ovate, acute, 

 veins 5-7, scaberulous above the middle, II ovate, acuminate, 

 III and IV minute, narrow, awn o; grain linear. 



Uva Province, Badulla district (Thwaites). 

 Himalaya, Khasia and Nilgiri Hills, Burma, Tonkin, Afr. trop. 

 The Ceylon specimens differ from the Indian in the almost glabrous- 

 stem below the spikes, and entire glume IV. 



3. A. ciliaris, Beanv. Agrost. iii. (1812). 



Hack. Monogr. Androp. 352, subsp. Quartinianus. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 145 (not then known for Ceylon). Beauv. 1. c. t. xi. f. 6. 



Stems 1-2 ft., slender, branches long, glabrous below the 

 spikes, and nodes pubescent; 1. i-ii in., ovate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, thin, glabrous on both surfaces, margins smooth, 

 ciliate towards the base, midrib and veins obscure, sheaths 

 membranous, smooth, uppermost elongate, ventricose, mouth 

 not auricled ; spikes many, \-\ in., sessile and very shortly 

 peduncled, rhachis capillary, internodes half as long as the 

 spikelets, rather shortly ciliate ; spikelets solitary, ^ - } in., 

 narrowly lanceolate, terete, callus glabrous or nearly so ; 

 glumes I and II punctulate, I chartaceous, lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, veins 7-9, vanishing downwards from the middle, 

 minutely aculeolate, II as long as I, linear, acute, 3-veined 

 and thickened in the middle, margins broad, incurved, 

 hyaline, keel more or less aculeolate, III not half I, ovate, 

 acuminate, veins o, IV as long as III, lanceolate, awn sub- , 

 basal about ^ in., palea o ; lodicules quadrate ; stam. 1 or 2, 

 anth. minute, short; styles and stigmas short; pedicel of 

 absent upper spikelet about half as long as the sessile 

 spikelet, ciliate like the internodes ; grain linear. 

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