240 Grammece. {Andropogon. 



winged, II linear, terete, concave, rigidly coriaceous and 

 scaberulous with pale glabrous chartaceous sigmoidly incurved 

 margins, dorsally rounded, III short, oblong, hyaline, truncate, 

 veinless, tip ciliate, IV the flattened white slender base of the 

 awn, which is 2—3 in. long, very stout, hirsute, palea short,, 

 quadrate, 2-lobed, lobes fimbriate ; lodicules large, linear- 

 oblong, retuse, 2-toothed ; ov. slender, tipped with a tooth 

 between the styles, which and the very long stigmas are 

 exserted at the top of the spikelet ; upper pedicelled spikelets 

 neuter, imbricating over the sessile, \-\ in. long, pedicel short,, 

 glabrous ; glume I lanceolate, acuminate, flat, slightly twisted, 

 winged on one or both sides, one or both margins inflexed, 

 II and III lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, II 3-veined, III 

 smaller, 1 -veined, IV narrowly oblanceolate, 1 -veined, ciliate 

 above the middle ; lower spikelets (of the spike) sessile, 

 neuter or male, \— § in., narrowly oblong, obtuse, glabrous; 

 glume I narrowly winged, margins narrowly incurved, II, III, 

 and IV as in the upper pedicelled spikelets; anth. \ in. long. 



Mahning-galla, Matelle, E. (Thwaites.) 



Also in Central India, the Concan, Burma, Malaya, and Australia. 



15. A. hirtiflorus, Kunth, Revis. Gram. ii. 569 (1829). 



Hack. Monogr. Androp. 371. A. zeylanicus, Arn. ; Thw. Enum. 368. 

 Schizachyrium zeylanicum, Wight and Arn. A. Pseudograya. Steud^ 

 C. P. 3079. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 357. Kunth, 1. c. t. 198. 



Perennial; stems densely tufted, erect, 1-4-ft, stiff, rather 

 stout or slender, simple or branched upward, sometimes 

 fastigiately, smooth, shining; 1. 2-6 by \-\ in., linear, obtuse 

 or subacute, coriaceous, midrib slender, veins obscure, sheaths 

 tight, coriaceous, mouth not auricled, ligule rounded, stiff; 

 spikes 2-5 in., slender, subterete, rhachis stout ; internodes 

 \-\ in., subclavate, concavo-convex, smooth, glabrous, brown 

 speckled with red, mouth oblique, deeply tubular, toothed; 

 sessile spikelets appressed to the internodes, \ in. long, 

 narrow, callus stout, bearded with white hairs, sunk in the 

 deep mouth of the internode ; glume I linear-lanceolate, 

 bicuspidate, coriaceous, dorsally convex, smooth, margins 

 membranous, involute, keel above minutely scaberulous, 

 II as long, recurved, laterally compressed, lanceolate, aris- 

 tulate, ciliate, keel coriaceous, narrowly winged above the 

 middle, sides broadly hyaline, ciliate, III oblong, hyaline, 

 veinless, ciliate, IV short, broad, cleft nearly to the base into 

 two subulate-lanceolate ciliate lobes, awn in the sinus rather 

 longer than the spikelet, capillary, smooth, palea o; lodicules 

 cuneate ; anth. small, linear ; ov. slender, styles and narrow 



