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an empty glume or quite suppressed in the pedicelled spikelets, upper her- 

 maphrodite ; one male or neuter, in the pedicelled spikelet. Sessile spikelet 

 dorsal ly compressed, awned, callus small, shortly bearded. Involucral 

 glumes equal, membranous to subherbaceous ; lower 2-keeled, with narrow 

 inflexed margins ; upper boat-shaped, 3-nerved, keeled, grooved on both sides 

 along the obtuse keel. Lower floral glume hyaline, nerveless, upper consisting 

 of a hyaline, linear stipe, firmer upwards, passing into a slender awn. PaleO. 

 Lodicules 2, minute, glabrous. Stamens 3. Stigmas exserted laterally, longer 

 than the styles. Grain oblong-ellipsoid or oblong, dorsally slightly compressed; 

 embryo exceeding \ of the grain. Pedicelled spikelet awnless, glume, if 

 present, hyaline, nerveless. 



Species 6, in tropical and subtropical Asia, Polynesia and Australia, tropical 

 Africa. 



Three species, described by Cooke (ii, 981, 982) under Andropogon assimilis, 

 Steud., A. Hugelii, Hack., and A. filiculmis, Hook. f. belong to this genus. 



1. Stems more or less suffrutescent below, stiff, 

 erect 



1. Nodes of stem glabrous ; callus shortly 



bearded ... ... ... 1. C assimilis. 



2. Nodes of stem bearded ; callus densely 



villous ... ... ... 2. C. Hugelii. 



II. vStems decumbent and interlaced, very 



weak, filiform ... ... ... 3. C. filiculmis. 



1. CapiUipedium assimile, A. Camus, Graminees in H. Lecomte. Fl. 

 Generate de 1'Indo-Chine 7 (1922) 314; Haines Bot. Bihar and Orissa 

 (1924), 1028 {A. Camus prior fecit combinationem novam). — Andropogon 

 assimilis, Steud. in Zoll. Syst. Verz. (1854), 58; Syn. Gram. (1855), 397; 

 Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 179; Cke. ii, 981.— A. montanus, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 423, non Roxb., excl. syn.; Hack. Monogr. Androp. 490, excl. syn.— ChrysoPo- 

 gon pictus, Hance in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, v (1866), 252. — C. glaucoPsis, Duthie 

 Grass. N. W. Ind. 22—Raphis repens, Nees ex Steud. 1. c. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality : Khandesh : Toranmal, growing among Strobilanthus (McCann 

 9671!). — Konkan: Above Kenery Caves (McCann 9959 !).— Deccan : in dry 

 forest, between Mahableshwar and Panchgani, at 4,000 ft. (Sedgwick and Bell 

 4738 !). — Kanara : Jugglepet, road side, common (Talbot 1386 !). 



Distribution : Temperate Himalaya, Khasia, Behar, N. Bengal, Rajputana, 

 Central India, W. Peninsula, Java, China, Japan. 



2. CapiUipedium Hugelii, Blatter & McCann, nov. comb. — Andropogon 

 Hugelii, Hack. Monogr. Androp. 492 ; Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 180 ; Cke. ii, 982. 



Description: Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Khandesh'. Toranmal (McCann 9672 !).— Konkan : Mulgaum 

 (McCann 3664 !).— Deccan : Khandala, St. Xavier's Villa (McCann 9423 !) ; 

 dry forests between Mahableshwar and Panchgani (Sedgwick 4738!); 

 Panchgani (Blatter and Hallberg B1321 !, McCann !).— S. M. Country: 

 Deciduous forests west of Dharwar (Sedgwick 4498 !). — Kanara : Halyal (Tal- 

 bot 2082 !) ; Ecumbi to Mungod (Hallberg and McCann A288 !). 



Distribution : Rajputana, Central Provinces, Central India, W. Peninsula. 



3. CapiUipedium filiculme, Blatter & McCann, nov. comb .—Andropogon 

 filiculmis, Hook. f. in F. B. I. vii, 181 ; Cke ii, 982. 



Description : Cke. 1. c. 



Locality: Konkan: Trombay (McCann A286 !).— Deccan ; Khandala to 

 Karjat (Blatter and Hallberg A2S7 !) ; Igatpuri (Blatter and Hallberg 5117 !) ; 

 Poona, in rocky places (Jacquemont 310) ; Donshi, Mawal Districts (Woodrow 

 26); Purandhar (McCann 5570 !).— S. M. Country : forests near Dharwar 

 (Sedgwick 1854!). 



Distribution : W. Peninsula, apparently endemic. 



32. Amphilophis, Nash in Britt. Man. Fl. N.U.S. ed. i, 71 ; 

 Stapf in Fl. Trop. Afr. ix, 171. 



Perennial grasses. Stems slender, simple or branched, bearded or beardless 

 at the nodes. Panicles mostly subdigitate with a short primary axis, rarely the 

 racemes on branches of the second order ; racemes always shortly peduncled. 



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