Andropogon.] Grami7iece. 245 



spikes \\ in. long, pedicel much shorter than the proper 

 bract, internodes much shorter than the sessile spikelet and 

 pedicel of the upper, both of which are silkily villous, their tips 

 funnel-shaped; spikelets 10-15 pairs, sessile bisexual, \-\ in. 

 long, lanceolate; glume I flat, thin, smooth, glabrous, broadly 

 winged from below the middle to the minutely truncate tip, 

 veins o or obscure, margins inflexed, membranous, wings 

 serrulate, II as long as I, coriaceous, linear-oblong, concave, 

 keeled, obtuse, keel narrowly winged above the middle, 

 margins hyaline, ciliate, III oblong, hyaline, margins and 

 rounded tip ciliate, IV deeply bifid, hyaline, ciliate, awned 

 between the lanceolate acuminate ciliate lobes, awn capillary, 

 geniculate, not twice as long as the spikelet, palea small, 

 spathulate, ciliate ; lodicules broadly obliquely quadrate ; 

 anth. linear-oblong ; styles and stigmas short ; pedicelled 

 spikelet \ in., glume I ovate-lanceolate, truncate, many-veined, 

 II ovate-oblong, acute, 5-7 -veined, margins narrowly hyaline, 

 ciliate, III as in the sessile spikelet, IV o, or linear; lodicules 

 cuneate; anth. linear. 



Elevated parts of the Central Province, up to 7000 ft. Spikes livid 

 purplish. 



Also in the Nilgiri Hills. 



20. A, filipendulus, Hochst. iti Flora, xxix. 115 (1846). 

 Anthistiria fasciculata, Thw. Enum. 366. C. P. 940. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vii. 209. 



Perennial ; stems 2-4 ft, tufted, slender, leafy simple or 

 branching from the base, nodes glabrous; 1. 6-12 in., very 

 slender, tV~tV in. broad, linear, setaceously acuminate, flat, 

 glabrous, nearly smooth or margins scaberulous, base 

 rounded, sheaths smooth, mouth with rounded auricles, 

 ligule large, membranous, ciliate. decurrent on the auricles ; 

 infl. a narrow erect panicle of filiform branches bearing 

 long-peduncled spikes, bracts erect, 1-2 in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, setaceously acuminate, proper bracts filiform, 

 longer or shorter than the capillary ped. of the two spikes 

 of which one is generally sessile, the other shortly pedicelled; 

 internodes and slender pedicel of upper spikelets ciliate, 

 tips funnel-shaped ; spikelets 1-3 pairs in each spike, narrowly 

 lanceolate, sessile bisexual, \ in. long including the long acute 

 silkily hairy callus ; glume I oblong-lanceolote, tip truncate, 

 dorsally flat, hairy below the middle, margins narrowly 

 incurved, smooth, but ciliate with long hairs, veins obscure, 



II and III linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate, II 1-3-veined, 



III hyaline, veins o, IV the narrow sagittiform base of the 



