244 GrantinecB. [Andropogon. 



midrib slender, sheaths smooth, not auricled, ligule \ in. long - , 

 broadly oblong, truncate, rigidly coriaceous ; panicle of few 

 shortly peduncled fascicles of spikes; bracts lower and proper 

 very narrowly lanceolate; spikes \-\ in., erect, pale chestnut- 

 brown, pedicel much shorter than the proper bract which is 

 shorter than the spikes; internodes and pedicels of the upper 

 spikelet about half as long as the sessile spikelet, slender, 

 silkily villous, tips funnel-shaped, mouth toothed ; sessile 

 spikelet ■§— | in. ; glume I narrowly lanceolate, finely acumi- 

 nate, tip bicuspidate, flat, smooth, glabrous, margins narrowly 

 incurved, obscurely scaberulous above the middle, veins 3, 

 2 lateral in each flexure, II-IV ciliate, II chartaceous, ovate- 

 oblong, finely acuminate, keeled, 1 -veined, margins hyaline, 

 keel scaberulous, III oblong, acute, hyaline, 3-veined, IV the 

 narrowly oblong hyaline deeply lobed base of the awn, lobes 

 lanceolate, ciliate, awn very slender, smooth, up to \ in. long, 

 palea minute, broadly ovate, ciliate ; lodicules very minute, 

 quadrate; anth. linear-oblong; styles and stigmas very slender; 

 pedicelled spikelet as long as the sessile, but narrow, glume I 

 convex, many-veined, glabrous, II and III as in the sessile 

 spikelet, but narrower, IV o. 



Nuwara Eliya (Thwaites, Aug. 1864). 



Endemic. 



This is the plant mentioned in Fl. B. Ind. (vii. 208) under A. JVardus, 

 var. luridus, as a possible form of that plant or of var. nilagiricus. An 

 examination of better specimens in Herb. Peradeniya has convinced me 

 that it cannot be thus disposed of. Its chief characters are the slender 

 habit, crowded radical 1. which are very narrow, terminating above in 

 capillary tips and below in a naked petiole, the long rigid ligule, the 

 simpler infl., and very long spikelets. In many respects it resembles 

 the N. Indian A. Gidarba, Ham., but the internodes are very slender, 

 the sessile spikelets much longer and narrower, and glume I is quite flat. 

 Thwaites's are the only specimens, and these are from one locality only. 



19. A. lividus, Thw. Enum. 367 (1864). 

 Hack. Monogr. Androp. 615. C. P. 953. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 209. 



Perennial ; stems 1-2 ft, tufted, slender, leafy chiefly at 

 the base, rigid, smooth, nodes naked; 1. 4-6 in., strict, erect, 

 ^-i in. broad at the middle, tapering from thence to the 

 setiform tip and very narrow almost petioled base, flat, 

 glabrous, smooth above, scaberulous beneath and on the 

 margins, sheaths glabrous, mouth not auricled, ligule large, 

 ovate, scarious; infl. a simple raceme of 2-4 very long- 

 peduncled spikes in the axils of narrowly lanceolate or linear 

 glabrous bracts 1-3 in. long, peduncles 1-2 in. long, capillary, 

 smooth, proper bracts filiform, as long as the spikes or shorter; 



