238 Graminecs. \Andropogon. 



tip, and below to the subpetiolate base, more or less clothed 

 with soft spreading hairs, midrib slender, yellow, margins 

 scaberulous, sheaths of upper long, terete, of lower com- 

 pressed, mouth auricled, bearded with soft hairs, ligule short, 

 rigid ; spikes 3-6, subdigitately fascicled, erect, sessile or 

 shortly peduncled, 2-3 in. long, unequal in length, rhachis 

 fragile, internodes and pedicels about half as long as the 

 spikelets, silkily villous, tips cupped ; sessile spikelets bisexual 

 or fern, except the lowest pair in each spike which are male 

 or neuter, callus very short, shortly bearded; glume I oblong, 

 obtuse, chartaceous, \-\ in. long, fiat, smooth, 4-7-veined, 

 margins narrowly incurved, ciliate above the middle, pale 

 green or blueish, II membranous, obovate-oblong, acute, 

 keeled, ciliate, 3-veined, III narrower, linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 1 -veined, ciliate, IV the narrowly hyaline bifid base of the 

 slender scaberulous awn, which is about \ in. long, palea o, 

 or minute, broadly ovate ; lodicules quadrate, broader than 

 long; anth. linear; styles and stigmas rather short, laterally 

 exserted ; pedicelled spikelets oblong, truncate, glume I 

 convex, narrowly winged or not, II and III as in the sessile 

 spikelets, IV linear-oblong, 2-toothed, 1 -veined, ciliolate. 



hlevated parts of the Central Provinces, up to an elevation of 7000 ft. 

 Piderutalagala (Gardner), Nuwara Eliya, Horton Plains (Trimen). 



Hackel does not mention the tips of the internodes of the spike as 

 being cupped. He describes the sessile spikelets as only \ in. (5 mm.) 

 long ; I find them to be longer. 



13. A. contortus, Linn. Sfi. PL 1045 (1753). I'-tana, S. 



Hack. Monogr. Androp. 585, excl. syn. fiolystachyus, Roxb. Hetero- 

 fiogon hirttts, Pers. Syn. ii. 533; Thw. Enum. 368. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 199. All. Fl. Peden. t. 91. Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 53 

 (Heierop. Allionii). 



Perennial; stems 1-5 ft., tufted, erect or decumbent below, 

 slender, leafy chiefly at the base, simple or subfastigiately 

 branched, glabrous or scaberulous below the spikes, com- 

 pressed towards the base ; 1. 6-10 by T V- \ in., linear, obtuse, 

 acute, or acuminate, flat, upper surface and margins scabrid 

 or nearly smooth, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, with sometimes 

 tubercle-based hairs, sheaths glabrous, lower compressed, 

 keeled, mouth shortly auricled, ligule short, truncate, ciliolate; 

 spikes i|— 3 in., internodes very short, lower inarticulate; 

 spikelets closely imbricating, subsecund, lower 2-6 or more 

 sessile awnless, male or neuter; upper sessile spikelets narrow, 

 long-awned, fem., \ in. long, callus long, acute, rufously 

 bearded; glume I coriaceous, linear-oblong, truncate, dark 

 brown, many-veined, hispidulous, margins strongly incurved, 

 rounded, not winged, lateral veins apparently marginal, ciliate, 



