Arundmaria.] Graminece '. 3 1 1 



mouth short, with 5-8 long twisted bristles, ligule short, often fim- 

 briate; infl. of terminal erect panicled long-pedicelled spikelets, 

 panicles 3-5 in. long, rhachis and branches filiform, smooth, 

 branches erect, afterwards spreading, axils glandular; spikelets 

 distant, about ^ in. long, 5 — 8-fld., very narrow, rhachilla 

 slender, compressed, ciliate, upper internodes half as long as 

 the glumes, tips clavate; glumes thin, silkily puberulous, 

 uppermost empty, I ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, tip ciliate, 

 3-veined, II longer, narrower, 5-9- veined, flg. glumes ovate- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, 7-9-veined, palea as long as the glumes 

 or longer, bicuspidate, keels 2, subciliate, veins several, 

 very slender; lodicules 3, fimbriate, two broadly ovate, one 

 smaller, narrower; stam. not exserted, fil. very short, anth. 

 obtuse; ov. glabrous, style short, stigmas flattened, fimbriate; 

 grain i in. long, linear-oblong, crowned by the bifid style 

 base, red. 



Montane district, alt. 5000 ft. Spikelets pale brown. 

 Endemic. 



Specimens collected on Adam's Peak, numbered C. P. 4023, Aug. 

 1869, by Dr. Thwaites, in leaf only, may belong to this species. 



4. A. debilis, Thw. Enum. 375 (i{ 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv., For. Man. p. ccxxx. Gamble, Bamb. Brit. Ind. 7. 

 C. P. 1. 



Fl. B. Ind. vii. 378. Gamble, 1. c. t. 8. 



Shrubby, apparently gregarious ; stems elongated, much 

 branched, nodes rather enlarged, internodes 2-6 by ^— § in. 

 diam., glabrous or hispid at the top, upper smooth, yellow, 

 shining; 1. small, erect, imbricating, i|- 3 by \-\ in., acumi- 

 nate, tip setiform, scabrid, glaucous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces or hairy above, base acute or subtruncate, scabrous 

 on one or both margins, midrib stout, veins 2-3 pairs, faint, 

 with 5 intermediates, cross -venules distant or o, petiole 

 /p iV in-, l.-sheaths glabrous, striate, tipped by a ciliate 

 callus, auricles of mouth short, with a few long pale bristles, 

 ligule short; infl. of short panicles of spikelets terminating 

 slender leafy branchlets that are half whorled at the nodes of 

 the stem, panicles racemiform, about as long as the leaves, 

 erect or drooping, glabrous or nearly so, rhachis very slender, 

 axils glandular, pedicels shorter than the spikelets, tips 

 clavate ; spikelets \-\ in., 3-fld., narrowly lanceolate, terete, 

 red-brown, glabrous or puberulous, internodes of rhachilla 

 with scabrid tips; glumes I and -II ovate, mucronate, 5-7- 

 veined, I smallest, flg. glumes similar but smaller, palea 

 minute, bicuspidate, tip ciliate, keels smooth; lodicules 3, 

 ovate, acute, ciliate, 3-veined ; fil. short, anth. tips bifid ; ov. 



