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2. A. setacea, Retz. Obs. iv. 22 (1786). Et-tuttisi, S. 



A. cczrulescens, Thw. Enum. 370 (non Desf.) A. Adscensionis, Trim. 

 Cat. Ceyl. PL 108 (non Linn.). C. P. 915. 

 FL B. Ind. vii. 225. 



Perennial ; stem 1-3 feet, as thick as a crow-quill, erect or 

 geniculately ascending from a woody base with stout wiry 

 root-fibres, hard, smooth, polished, simple or branched ; 1. 

 6-12 in., usually convolute and filiform, rarely flat, up to \ in. 

 broad, coriaceous, smooth, sheath long, smooth, auricles short, 

 naked, ligule of short hairs; panicle very various, 6-12 in., 

 long, inclined, sometimes subsecund, open or contracted, 

 rhachis slender, smooth, branches rather distant, long or short, 

 lower sometimes up to 4 in. long, filiform or capillary, naked 

 towards the base; spikelets erect, pedicels capillary; glumes 

 I and II keeled, very narrow, terminating in scabrid awns, I 

 \ in. long, opaque, narrowed into the awn, keel scabrid, II 

 rather longer, notched at the insertion of the awn, margins 

 broadly hyaline, keel smooth; fig. glume about as long as the 

 empty, 3-veined, mid-vein subscabrid, awns \—\\ in. long, not 

 articulate on the glume, scaberulous, callus long, silkily 

 bearded with long hairs, palea ^ in. long, chartaceous, veins 

 or keels o; lodicules narrowly obovate-oblong, obtuse, sub- 

 falcate, many-veined; stam. 3, anth. very slender; ov. narrow; 

 grain \-\ in. long, very narrowly fusiform, narrowed to the 

 acute base. 



Common in the hot drier part of the Island. 



Plains of Central and Southern India. Mascarene Isld. 



44. 6ARNOTIA, Brongn. 

 Erect, perennial, rarely annual, stout or slender grasses ; 

 1. flat or convolute; spikelets panicled, very small, narrow, 

 terete, i-fld., solitary or binate, jointed on their pedicels, 

 rhachilla not produced beyond the palea; glumes 3, I and II 

 subequal, lanceolate, acute, acuminate or awned, strongly 

 3-veined, empty, III as long as II, lanceolate, acuminate or 

 awned, thinly coriaceous or membranous, quite smooth, 

 faintly 1 -veined, paleate, bisexual, tip acute or minutely 

 2-toothed, awn rarely jointed, sometimes geniculate at the 

 base or above it, very slender, scaberulous, palea as long 

 as the glume, linear, flaps minutely auricled at the base ; 

 lodicules 2; stam. 3, anth. linear; styles free, stigmas with 

 simple hairs, laterally exserted ; grain linear or oblong, dorsally 

 compressed, free within the glume and palea. — Sp. about 20; 

 12 in Fl. B. Ind. 



