230 Graminece. [Androfiogov* 



what agrees with C. P. 3258 on banks of the Haragam river, in company 

 with A. haleftensis, and it is now growing very luxuriantly and in full 

 flower in my garden in Colombo. The young culms are from 6-8 ft. 

 high. 5 This is so remarkable a development under cultivation of a plant 

 described in its native state as only 1-2 ft. high, that the statement 

 requires confirmation. 



2. A. pertusus, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 922 (1805). 



Thw. Enum. 367, partim, 437. Hack. Monogr. Androp. 479. C. P. 95 1. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 173. Beauv. Agrost. t. 23, f. 2. 



Annual (?), stem 1-2 ft., erect or ascending, slender, leafy 

 upwards, simple or sparingly branched, nodes bearded with 

 spreading hairs, upper internodes filiform ; 1. narrow, lower 

 often short and crowded at the base of the stem, all 

 narrowly linear, up to a foot long and \ in. broad, flat, tips of 

 upper capillary, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, margin scaberu- 

 lous, base narrow, rounded, upper sheaths long but shorter 

 than the internodes, terete, lower shorter, compressed, mouth 

 hardly auricled, ligule a short ciliolate membrane; spikes 

 3-10, subdigitately racemed, sessile or lower shortly peduncled,. 

 1-2 in. long, slender, suberect, flexuous, rhachis filiform,, 

 fragile, and pedicels villous with white hairs ; spikelets \ in. 

 long, longer than the internodes, oblong-lanceolate, pale, 

 callus villously bearded with long hairs; sessile spikelet fern., 

 glume I obtuse or minutely truncate, thinly chartaceous, with 

 a large deep pit about the middle, 5-9-veined, sparsely hairy 

 towards the base, margins narrowly incurved, subspinulosely 

 ciliate, II lanceolate, acuminate, tip exserted beyond I,. 

 obscurely keeled above the middle, glabrous or ciliate, 3- 

 veined, III shorter, linear-oblong, obtuse, veinless, IV the 

 narrowed colourless base of the slender subgeniculate awn, 

 which is \-\ in. long, and slightly rough, palea, o ; pedicelled 

 spikelets like the fern, but narrower, pedicel more than half as 

 long as the sessile spikelet, glume I acute, very rarely pitted, 

 III ciliate, IV o, anth. linear. 



Very common, from the sea to 3000 ft. elevation. 



All warm countries of the old world, extending to the Mediterranean. 



A variable plant, of which Hackel in his Monogr. Androp. has nine 

 varieties, referring the Ceylon plant to a gemiiniis. The characteristic 

 deep pit on glume I of the sessile (rarely of the pedicelled) spikelet is 

 sometimes absent, but very rarely ; two of these pits occur in some 

 Indian forms. 



An excellent fodder grass, green or dry (Ferguson). 



3. A. intermedius, Br. Prod. 20 (18 10). 



Hack. Monog. Androp. 485. A. fascicularis, Thw. Enum. 437, nori 

 Roxb. C. P. 41 1. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 175. 



Perennial; stem 2-3 ft, stout, erect, subcompressed, simples 

 or sparingly branched, leafy upwards, nodes glabrous ; 1. 6-riS 



