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ciliate above, upper lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Floral glumes narrower, 

 ciliate, awn of upper half the size of the glume. 



Locality : N. Kanara : Halyal (Talbot 2088 !). 



Distribution: Temperate Himalaya from Kashmir to Sikkim, 4,000-9,000 

 ft. Khasia Hills, 4,000-5,000 ft., westwards to N. Africa and S. Europe, 

 Australia. 



2. Chrysopogon aciculatus, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 188; Duthie Grass. N. W. 

 Ind. 22 {acicularis), Fodd. Grass. N. Ind. 39; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 424, Fl. 

 Austral, vii, 538.— Andropogon aciculatus, Retz. Obs. v (1789), 22 ; Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. i, 262 ; Grah. 238 ; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 562 ; Hook. f. in F. B, 1. vii, 

 188; Cke. ii, 984. -A. acicularis, Willd. Sp. pi. iv, 906.— Rhaphis acicularis, 

 Desv. Opusc. 69. — R. trivalvis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 553 ; Trin. Sp. Gram. Ic. 

 t. 8, 9. — Centrophorum chinense, Trin. Fund. Agrost. 106, t. 5.— Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. xii, t. 43. 



Description ; Cke. 1. c. 



Locality : Konkan : Alibag, sandy shore (Ezekiel \).—N. Kanara : Karwar, 

 sea-shore (Sedgwick and Bell 5070 !) ; Jog, hills (Hallberg and McCann A272 !). 



Distribution : More or less throughout India, Ceylon, Tropical Asia, 

 Australia, Polynesia. 



Uses : According to Haines the leaves which lie close to the ground escape 

 to a large extent the lips of cattle. The plant is a pest on account of the sharp 

 callus and small awns sticking to the clothes. 



3. Chrysopogon asper, Heyne ex Wall. Cat. n. 8784. — Andropogon asper, 

 Heyne in Herb. Rottlerex Hook. f. in F.B.I, vii, 189. 



Description : Stem 30-90 cm., leafy below, very slender above. Leaves 

 distichous, 30-45 cm. by 12-18 mm., broadly linear, acute, cordate, coriaceous, 

 flat, smooth, 11-nerved, midrib very slender, spinulose beneath, margins 

 spinulosely serrulate, and with a few long tubercle-based cilia towards the 

 broad semi-amplexicaul base ; sheaths broad, compressed, laxly hirsute, lower 

 ones 12 mm. broad, keeled, armed with scattered tubercle-based hairs. 

 Panicle 18 cm. long, narrow, of many whorls of short, unequal, simple, smooth, 

 erect branches bearing solitary rarely 2 erect spikes, tips very shortly bearded. 

 Sessile spikelets 6 mm. long, pale, coriaceous, callus up to 2 mm., long villous 

 all round. Lower involucral glume hispid beneath, the tip strongly compressed 

 above ; upper with the keel and sides more or less hispid above the middle, awn 

 as long as the glume or shorter. Lower floral glume shorter than the upper 

 involucral, narrow, obtuse, 2-nerved, ciliate, upper consisting of the linear, 

 hyaline, 3-nerved base of the awn, awn 35-50 mm. long. Pedicelled 

 spikelets 8 mm. long, narrowly lanceolate, 7-nerved, pale, shining, keels 

 ciliate ; pedicels very shortly rufous-villous on both margins, excised at 

 the tip in a semi-circle ; lower involucral glume thin, tip 2-dentate, nerves 

 strong, sub-equidistant, or the 3 lateral on each side submarginal, margins 

 narrowly incurved, keels ciliolate from base to tip, upper lanceolate, acuminate, 

 3-nerved, ciliolate. Lower floral glume linear-oblong, 2-nerved, ciliate, upper 

 narrowly lanceolate, 1-nerved. 



Locality : N. Kanara : Tinai (Talbot 2564 !). 



Distribution : Madras : Pulicat Hills. 



4. Chrysopogon iancearius Haines in Haines Bot. Bihar and Orissa 1036.— Andro- 

 pogon lajicearius, Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 190 ; Cke ii, 985. 



Description . Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Deccan : Panchgani (Blatter and Hallberg B 1230;).— S". M, 

 Country. Castle Rock (Woodrow). Seems to be very rare in the Presidency. 



Distribution : Sikkim Himalaya, Behar, Chota Nagpur, Orissa, W. Penin- 

 sula. 



Uses : A good fodder according to Haines. 



5. Chrysopogon Wightianus, Nees ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 397 .—Andropogon 

 Wightianus, Steud. Syn. Gram. 395; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 191.— A. aristu- 

 latus, Hochst ex Steud. Syn. Gram. 397 ; Hack, in Monogr. Androp. 556.— 

 A. breviaristatus , Steud. 1. c. 396.— Rhaphis orientalis, Desv. Opusc. 69. — 

 R. Wightianus, Nees ex Steud. 1- c. 



Description : Very variable in habit. Stems short or long, erect or ascending 

 from a short stout creeping stock. Leaves 7-25 cm- long, linear, acute, rigid, 

 from glabrous to pubescent on both surfaces and with sometimes tubercle- 



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