236 Graminece. [Andropogon. 



style and stigmas short ; pedicelled spikelets \ in., pedicel 

 rather shorter than the sessile spikelet, margins shortly ciliate, 

 callus glabrous ; glume I thin, very narrowly lanceolate, aris- 

 tulate, 5-veined, II and III copiously ciliate with very long 

 hairs, II lanceolate, finely acuminate, 3-veined, III narrowly 

 oblong, obtuse, IV linear-oblong, obtuse ; anth. \ in. 



Not uncommon up to 6000 ft. elev. (Walker, &c). 



Also in the Nilgiri Hills. 



10. A. monticola, Schult. Mant. iii. 665 (1827). 



Hack. Monogr. Androp. 557. Chrysopogon montanus, Trin.; Trim. 

 Cat. Ceyl. PI. 108. C. Wightianus, var. lencanthus, Thw. Enum. 366. 

 C. P. 2954. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 192. Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. t. 331 [Chrysopogon serrulatus). 



Perennial ; stems densely tufted, 1-4 ft., erect, stout or 

 slender, simple or branched, leafy chiefly at the base, upper- 

 most internodes usually very long and slender; 1. 2-18 by 

 \-\ in., erect, linear, acute, flat, rigid, glaucous, glabrous, 

 smooth or scaberulous, margins scabrid, midrib slender, 

 sheaths glabrous scabrid or hirsute, upper terete, lower com- 

 pressed, equitant, mouth not auricled, ligule of short hairs; 

 panicle 2-5 in., ovate or oblong, rhachis slender, flexuous, 

 smooth or scaberulous, branches 1-2 in., whorled, capillary, 

 flexuous, spreading, at length erect, tips bearded with 

 spreading bristles; spikes reduced to a single sessile fern., 

 with two pedicelled male spikelets; sessile spikelet \-\ in., 

 laterally compressed, callus long, bearded on one side with 

 long rufous bristles; glumes I and II with complicate sides, 

 chartaceous, I linear, 2-toothed, 4-veined, keel and tip 

 scaberulous, margins hyaline, II much broader and rather 

 longer, falcate, 3-veined, tip 2-toothed, awned, awn capillary, 

 keel glabrous or ciliate with long or short rufous bristles, 

 margins broadly hyaline, III oblong, obtuse, ciliate with long 

 flexuous hairs, IV very narrow, 2-lobed, eciliate, awned, awn 

 \— lin. ; lodicules minute; ov. minute, stigmas slender; pedi- 

 celled spikelets as long as the sessile, very shortly pedicelled, 

 dorsally compressed, callus very short, bearded with long 

 rufous hairs, glume I lanceolate, acute or awned, 7-veined, 

 scaberulous, II lanceolate, acuminate, 3-veined, III and IV 

 smaller, oblong, acute, hyaline, ciliate; anth. £ in. long. 



Hotter parts of the Island. Uraa Oya, MatelleE., Dambulla, Nilgala, 

 Jaffna district. 



Hilly districts throughout India, Burma, Afghanistan, S. Africa. 



I cannot distinguish in the Ceylon specimens between monticola 

 proper, with long flexuous bristles on the keel of glume 1 1 of the sessile 

 spikelets, and var. Trinity with a glabrous or shortly ciliate keel. The 

 colour and length of the hairs on the calli and sides of the pedicels of the 

 male spikelets vary greatly. 



