1206 BENGAL PLANTS. { Andropogon. 
2642/3. Var. Buapum Hack. ; F. B. I. vii. 197. A. Bladhii FI. 
i 076. 
In most of the provin 
A geniculately aakacnise small or large grass. 
1081. Pseudanthistiria Hook. f. 
Annual grasses; leaves long, narrow. Spikes many, short, 
crowded in panicled fecaund, each with a spathiform bract, 
inarticulate ; spikelets in each spike usually one sessile, bisexual, 
with one pedicelled male, and a second sessile, bisexual, with two 
pedicelled male. Sessile 2-sexual spikelets with short callus ; 
glume I. chartaceous, 7-veined, margins incurved below the 
middle ; II. lanceolate, 3-veined, membranous; III. small, quad- 
rate; IV. the narrow hyaline base of a long capillary, geniculate 
awn; lodicules cuneate. Pedicelled male spikelets on slender 
pedicels; ees thin, about 9-veined, margins narrowly incurved ; 
IT ; III. very ae Sips ; stamens 3; anthers linear ; 
styles cheirt ea eh , exserted. Grain small. 
2643. epromnleng ETEROCLITA Hook. f.; F. B. I. vii. 219. 
astiria sntoveitil F. I. i. 249. 
©. Bengal. 
A slender, geniculate grass. 
1082. Anthistiria Linn. 
Tall, annual or perennial grasses; leaves long, narrow. Spikes 
many, short, crowded in spathaceous, paniculate fascicles, each in 
a spathiform bract; rachis of spike articulate above the four lower 
spikelets ; spikelets 7-9, dimorphic, 4 whorled or nearly so, male 
or neuter, awnless, forming an involucre round the jointed rachis, 
ith either one sessile, 2-sexual, and 2 pedicelled spikelets, or two 
superposed 2-sexual spikelets, the lower with 1, the upper with 2 ; 
pedicelled spikelets. Spikelets of the involucre longest, sessile ; | 
callus 0; glumes 3; I. oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, flattened, 
sometimes thickened at the base, margins narrowly incurved and 
ge 
1-nerved ; anthers, if Sa large. Sessile 2-sexual or female 
spikelets much smaller arrowly ae subterete, obtuse ; callus 
rigidly beard olin L coriaceous, margins strongly imeurved 5 
Il. as long as L., linear, hyaline, 3 ponies, dorsally chartaceous, 
sides broadly ineurved, membranous; III. very small, hyaline, 
